https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:16:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-1141119 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:16:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-1141119 Ginny Tarter:
Ginny: pertaining to gin, i.e. drunk, and Tartar: a rough or violent person. So it appears to be a neat description of his clientele

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-1014554 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 15:53:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-1014554 I aquired two pictures at a garage sale that looks to be a part of this collection. I am having no luck as to finding them anywhere online. I would love if you could give me some information on them. They are beautiful pieces and the previous owner had them framed. Thank you for any response.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-792729 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:37:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-792729 What a shame he felt that he could not do any more sketches. Just proves that his sketches were true to life depicting the poverty of the poor in that Century. Things never change. Would been different if he had glamourised his work, but he didn’t. We lost a treasure trove. Thank you for showing these.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-787086 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:57:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-787086 I guess that ‘Last dying speech and confession’ is a printed account of a condemned person’s last moments on the gallows? These were (to us) grotesquely popular, and sold like ballads on the streets. See a number of examples by the printer James Catnach at http://bit.ly/1Bft0FW. But I too would like to know about the ‘Ginny Tarters’!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-786972 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:21:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-786972 Please can you explain the ‘Last dying speech and confession’?
also….
the Mountbank

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-786397 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:35:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-786397 These are superb representations of real people, they come alive in the drawings by such a talented man. Will there be more to see later? I do hope so.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-785523 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:33:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-785523 Do you know what “Ginny Tarters” are?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-784957 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:00:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-784957 The last drawing seems to promote equal rights with the wife beating her husband in the background. Interesting pictures, being less stylized they feel more authentic in showing real people. I wonder how modern stomachs would cope with the fare (and microbes) on offer.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-784834 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:23:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-784834 A quite remarkable collection. I’d no idea that Sandby had this side to him- compassion and accuracy and no trace of whimsy or amusement. Obviously the comparison with Hogarth occurs but the implicit anger is of a different order. While looking at them I had Schubert’s tragic last song in the Winterreise sequence, the hurdy-gurdy man, in my head- the destitute old man, shoeless in the snow. The good old days.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/21/more-of-paul-sandbys-cries-of-london/#comment-784602 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 07:36:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=124437#comment-784602 His work is fantastic, love all the details. Thanks for sharing! Valerie

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