Richard Dighton’s City Characters
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Map of The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields designed by Adam Dant
At the end of the week in which bumper bonuses for bankers were celebrated in the City of London, I thought I would publish Richard Dighton’s cartoons of their Regency counterparts from 1824 in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute, thus testifying that fat cats are not a new phenomenon.
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
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They definitely knew how to do footwear! Love the slippers especially.
Yes Saba, it seems they did not go short of food either. Very large bodies on very small feet.
On the subject of bumper bonuses for bankers mentioned in the introduction. This will probably continue going upwards as it has now been reastablished. Bad news for Spitalfields, as said city bankers work nearby? A fairly ordinary 1950s house on Fournier St was recently on the market for two million plus. With soaring bonuses for the nearby bankers this may seem good value in the not too distant future.
love reading your stories /pictures are brilliant