All fire and no smoke, a very good flint or a very good steel, do you want a good flint and steel Feu sans fumée, ou exellentes [sic] pierres a fusil. [graphic] =

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Title: All fire and no smoke, a very good flint or a very good steel, do you want a good flint and steel Feu sans fumée, ou exellentes [sic] pierres a fusil. [graphic] =
Alternative Title: Feu sans fumée, ou exellentes pierres a fusil
Creator: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
Contributor: Vivarès, François, 1709-1780, publisher.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, publisher.
Published / Created: [1760]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Abstract: "A thin elderly man proferring his wares, holding a long stick tucked under one arm, rubbing a short ribbed staff against the hilt with the other to spark a fire, looking to left, lit from the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Titles in English and French etched below image.
Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series.
Ninth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760.
Plate numbered "9" beneath lower right corner of image.
Provenance: Frank Hammond; October 1955.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.3 x 17 cm, on sheet 29.2 x 24 cm
Language: English
French

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 75 Sa5 760
Collection Title: Leaf 9. Twelve London cries, done from the life.
Collection / Other Creator: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Collection Date: [London] : Sold by F. Vivarez, engraver in Newport Street ; and by P. Sandby next door the Fountain in Broad Street, [1760]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Cries
Etchings England London 1760
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Street vendors
Metalworking
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Street vendors
Metalworking
Staffs (Sticks)
England > London > 1760

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 14076828
Object ID (OID): 16819431