Here Madge doth trudge thro' wet and dry, what'll buy salt, is Madge's cry [graphic].
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16740418
Description
- Title
- Here Madge doth trudge thro' wet and dry, what'll buy salt, is Madge's cry [graphic].
- Published / Created
- [1803]
- Publication Place
- Edinburgh
- Publisher
- L. Scott
- Abstract
-
A scene on a city street: in the foreground an old woman, hunched over and leaning on a cane, carries a basket on her back. On the left in the mid-field another woman kneels in the street using a sieve(?). In the far distance left, a woman carries a yoke with two pails. A fourth woman looks out the window of a building in the right foreground
- Description
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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 11.1 x 10 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 647 803C
- Collection Title
- Leaf 20r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
- Collection Date
- Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott, bookseller end of College Drummond Street, 1803.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- 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
Older people
Baskets
Staffs (Sticks) - Subjects
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City & town life > Scotland > Edinburgh
Peddlers
Older people
Baskets
Staffs (Sticks)
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1803
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 14100689
- Object ID (OID)
- 16740418