Chickens [graphic].

Description

Title: Chickens [graphic].
Creator: Busby, T. L. (Thomas Lord), printmaker
Contributor: Leigh, Samuel, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Samuel Leigh
Abstract: A peddler with a pole over his right shoulder from which hang two cages with birds inside, walks left away from the viewer. He carries a third cage in his left hand. His left sleeve is patched at the elbow
Description: Title engraved below image.
Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published.
Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Reduced copy in reverse of no. 29 in M. Laroon's Cries of London.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14 x 9 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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