Matches [graphic].

Description

Title: Matches [graphic].
Creator: Busby, T. L. (Thomas Lord), printmaker
Contributor: Leigh, Samuel, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Samuel Leigh
Abstract: A young match girl wearing ragged clothes and a hat with a hole is shown full length walking left. She wears simple shoes and holds a basket on her left arm. She holds bunches of matches in each hand
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.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14 x 9 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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