All a growing, a growing, heres flowers for your gardens [graphic]

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Title: All a growing, a growing, heres flowers for your gardens [graphic]
Creator: Merke, Henri, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [1 March 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A handsome young man sells pot-plants to a pretty young woman who stands on a door-step (left); a little girl beside her points eagerly to the flowers. He has a two-wheeled cart drawn by an ass; in it are small shrubs in large pots; two pots of flowering plants are on the ground. The background is formed by part of a palatial house having a portico raised on an arcade."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below series title and number.
1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 38.1 x 29.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; May 2018.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 36.7 x 30 cm, on sheet 48.5 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Carts & wagons
City & town life
Girls
Plants
Row houses
Street vendors
Women
Subjects: Carts & wagons
City & town life
Girls
Plants
Row houses
Street vendors
Women
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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