Person; male; Popular print publisher; great rival of Catnach; his shop was variously described, for example, as the Wholesale Toy and Marble Warehouse.; publisher/printer; British; 1765-1844

John Pitts: ballad printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844 : with a short account of his predecessors in the ballad & chapbook trade / [Leslie Shepard].

A lady holding a fan in her right hand: an animal jumps out of her wig and bites the barber on the nose, forcing him to wear a black patch. Woodcut and letterpress.

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

From January 2026 Wellcome Collection will close at 18.00 on Thursdays.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

John Pitts

Images from the collections

Images by John Pitts

Works from the collections

A lady holding a fan in her right hand: an animal jumps out of her wig and bites the barber on the nose, forcing him to wear a black patch. Woodcut and letterpress.