Plate 11 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling her wares to two men on the sidewalk beside a building with two large columns; around them are two women, one holding a child, and a small boy feeding a dog
Alternative Title:
Chanson nouvelles deux sols le livret
Description:
Title from item., With the imprint statement: London Pubd, as the Act directs 1st. March 1796 by Colnaghi & Co. (late Torres) No. 127 Pall Mall., and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Ballads, Dogs, Infants, Mothers, and Street vendors
Copy of a self-portrait by William Hogarth; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin and palette
Description:
Title from item., Plate engraved after the original oil painting, done in 1745, now in the Tate Gallery, London. Hogarth himself engraved this image in 1749; cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181., On verso, stamp of the copperplate manufacturer: [Whitto]w & Son, N. 43 Shoe Lane, Holborn, London., and For the print produced from this plate, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 538, no. 10.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
