The humours of St. Giles's – Historic Reproduction
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The humours of St. Giles's
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Few London neighborhoods carried a worse reputation in the late eighteenth century than St. Giles, the parish whose crowded lanes and cellar lodgings were a byword for poverty and petty crime. Johann Heinrich Ramberg, a German-born artist who worked in London as a caricaturist and illustrator, turned that reputation into a comic scene, using the older sense of "humours" to mean eccentric character types. The record dates the etching to February 1788, though that date comes from an unverified caption card, so it is best read as a snapshot of how satirists of the period framed the district's residents for a middle-class audience.
| Created / published | 1788 Feb. 20. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Notes | Etching by Johann Heinrich Ramberg. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158282 |
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