"A boy stands selling long matches from a basket, outside the Mansion House, London."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mansion House
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title etched above image: The Mansion House., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Illustration to 'Cries of London', reprint of the 'London Cries' section of Phillips's 'Modern London'; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1938,0307.6., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published April 25, 1804, by Richard Phillips, 71 St. Paul's Church Yard
Title etched above image., Reduced and reversed copy., Plate numbered '40' in upper right corner., Two lines of verse below image: "So Pug began to turn his brain (like other folks in place) on gain." Gay., Plate from: The British antidote to Caledonian poison ... for the year 1762. [London] : Sold at Mr. Sumpter's bookseller, [1763]., and Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
E. Sumpter
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Peace, Dogs, Peddlers, Pillories, and Street vendors
A man selling watercress, from a basket, in Hanover Square
Alternative Title:
Watercresses
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Phillips, R. Modern London., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. note in ink above image: Hanover Square.
Publisher:
Published April 25, 1804 by Richard Phillips, 71 St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Hanover Square (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, City & town life, Peddlers, and Vegetables
