H Beard Print Collection
1838
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1838
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
H Beard Print Collection is a 1838 by Charles John Smith, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows two writers turned into street performers. They’re from the 1700s but dressed like quack doctors selling tricks. The artist made this in 1838 for a book about old bookshops. The book’s author wrote about strange old prints and places. He put this funny picture in to show how silly those long-ago writers could look. A real travel book from 1838 is the source. Look up Smith, Charles John next.
The print shows Thomas Bridges and Laurence Sterne portrayed as mountebanks standing on a raised platform in a street scene, published in 1838 as part of an illustration for Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s travel account.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Charles John Smith (1803–1838) was an English engraver.
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