‘Sauntering Down Bond Street’, 1824

Description

Mounted hand coloured etching and aquatint entitled ‘Sauntering down Bond Street, …’, , designed and etched by anon, published by W. Egerton in 1824.

Here a man who has been knocked down by a carriage is sitting in a chair in an apothecary’s study. Four men, including the apothecary, undress and tend to the seated and helpless victim of the road accident; the concerned carriage driver looks on.

The inscription underneath tells the story: “Sauntering down Bond Street, in the evening, to “Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time”, espied an aquaintance on the opposite side of the way; was alive to the chance of a supper, darted across, when a heedless “Knight of the Whip”, passing with his crazy vehicle, laid me senseless; thus conveyed to the shop of an Apothecary, was stript to ascertain where I was injured, “When sorrows come, they come not single handed, but in battalions”, had the mortification of being sufficiently sensible to be aware of the exposure of my wardrobe, without the power to prev