This woman's song is 'caller osts', the sweetest song Edina boasts [graphic].

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Title: This woman's song is 'caller osts', the sweetest song Edina boasts [graphic].
Published / Created: [1803]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: L. Scott
Abstract: A night scene on a city street: a young woman, holding a basket on her arm and carrying another basket on her back meets a watchman who carries a lantern
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 16r. 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 (Topic): City & town life
Peddlers
Baskets
Watchmen
Lanterns
Subjects: City & town life > Scotland > Edinburgh
Peddlers
Baskets
Watchmen
Lanterns
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1803

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