Glasgow Looking Glass #4
"Shipping intelligence" in Glasgow Looking Glass #4 (1825) presents a vivid, period-accurate portrait of Glasgow’s working and fashionable classes through a series of quiet, telling moments. Written and illustrated by William Heath—handling every aspect of the artwork with meticulous hand—the issue captures the city’s social fabric in a series of vignettes, from the shearing of sheep to a dandy’s ruined coat, all rendered with a dry, observant eye. The cover by William Heath completes the scene with a sharp, period-accurate flourish.
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A shepherd boy watching sheep. A man shears a sheep under the inspection of a stout Scot taking snuff. A ragged weaver seated at a loom. A tailor sewing cross-legged in a garret, by the light of a candle in a bottle. A dandy admires his new coat in a pier-glass, watched by a fashionably dressed master-tailor. The dandy promenades with a lady on his arm. He is beset by roughs, and the coat is slit and torn. Seated over a glass, a patch over one eye, he hands the damaged coat to an obsequious foreign valet.
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