Knives, scissors to grind [realia]

Description

Title: Knives, scissors to grind [realia]
Contributor: Wheatley, Francis, 1747-1801, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1795]
Publication Place: London
Abstract: Same image as the one that appears as Plate 6 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows two women standing before a knife grinder and his cart equiped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. In the background on the right, a woman carrying a baby on her back walks away from the scene
Description: Title from item.
Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Provenance: Bernard Quaritch, with copper plate of Cries of London Plate 11; June 2018.
Extent: 1 item : 40.5 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Specimens
Cries
Engravings England London 1800
Genre prints
Printing plates
Material: copper printing plate ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Copperplates
Grinding wheels
Infants
Mothers
Scissors
Street vendors
Subjects: Copperplates > Specimens
Grinding wheels
Infants
Mothers
Scissors
Street vendors
England > London > 1800

Access: Public
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