

watercolour

The Blue devils
hand coloured etching published 10th January 1823 © Library of Congress
To suffer from the blue devils was to be low spirited or to have the ‘blues’. Here they are inciting the debtor to suicide while death and a coffin bearer wait beneath him with three pregant women- it doesn’t say if they are the cause of his debt.

oil on canvas


oil on canvas


oil on canvas


albumen print
(From: The Golden Age of British Photography 1839 -1900. Aperture Books, 1984.

albumen print from wet collodion negative
(From: The Golden Age of British Photography 1839 -1900. Aperture Books, 1984.