Water cresses [graphic].

Description

Title: Water cresses [graphic].
Alternative Title: Watercresses
Creator: Busby, T. L. (Thomas Lord), printmaker
Contributor: Leigh, Samuel, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1800] and [printed ca. 1818]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Samuel Leigh
Abstract: A street vendor: a full-length view of a woman in hat, scarf and shawl holding a basket of watercress
Description: Title etched below image.
Printing date from watermark.
Printmaker and imprint from title page of book in which this plate was published.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820.
Watermark: [Tu]rkey M[ill J] Whatm[an] 1818.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14 x 9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Cries
Etchings England London 1800
Watermarks (Paper) Turkey Mill J Whatman 1818
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Occupations
City & town life
Peddlers
Vegetables
Women
Subjects: Occupations
City & town life
Peddlers
Vegetables
Women
England > London > 1800
Turkey Mill J Whatman > 1818

Access: Public
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