Glasgow Looking Glass #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Embarkation" in Glasgow Looking Glass #2 (1825) delivers a vivid, satirical snapshot of urban unrest, capturing a riot in a working-class street where fishwives and townsfolk hurl stones and a dead cat at shop windows in protest over food shortages and the grim absence of festive fare at Christmas and the New Year. Written, drawn, inked, and lettered by William Heath, the story unfolds with mock-heroic verse, while the tail-piece presents a moment of comic surprise: three men staring in disbelief at a sack marked Cannon Mills.
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Riot in a street of small houses. Women, especially fishwives, and men attack windows and a shop-front with stones, a dead cat, &c. Heading to mock-heroic verses on a riot against dearth and the absence of holiday fare at Christmas and the New Year. Tail-piece: three men register astonished alarm at a large sack inscribed Cannon Mills.
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