'Fine yellow sand' upon the floor is good for either rich or poor [graphic].

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Title: 'Fine yellow sand' upon the floor is good for either rich or poor [graphic].
Alternative Title: Orphan Hospital
Published / Created: [1803]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: L. Scott
Abstract: A sand peddler with a bucket in his hand stands beside his cart in the foreground while a boy sits upon the sand in the cart; in the background the Orphan Hospital
Description: Title from verses etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Pickering & Chatto; July 2018.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.4 x 10 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 647 803C
Collection Title: Leaf 9v. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Collection Date: Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott, bookseller end of College Drummond Street, 1803.

Genre: Cries
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1803
Engravings Scotland Edinburgh 1803
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Scotland
Edinburgh.
Subject (Name): Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh,
Subject (Topic): City & town life
Peddlers
Carts & wagons
Almshouses
Subjects: Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh
City & town life > Scotland > Edinburgh
Peddlers
Carts & wagons
Almshouses
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1803

Access: Public
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