"Heading to engraved verses (which survive as a nursery rhyme) ... The woman stands at her cottage door, with her petticoats cut off to the knee. Her little dog barks at her. Behind (left) stands the pedlar, grinning, his box strapped to his shoulder. The verses end: 'He began to bark & she began to cry, Lord ha mercy on me, this is none of I, fal de ral.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Twenty lines of verse below title: There was a little woman as I've heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell, fal de ral, &c..., and Plate numbered '498' in the lower left corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 29, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Doors & doorways, Baskets, Eggs, Dogs, and Peddlers
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1763?]
Call Number:
763.00.00.126
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man stands full length facing the viewer wearing a hat and large coat, leaning on a walking stick in his right hand. He has a sheaf of papers over his left forearm with the words "Peace French & Spanish terms-". A speech balloon from his mouth reads, "If you dont care we'l [...] you all by St. Andre."
Description:
Title etched below image., "O'Garth" is a pseudonym for the Honorable George Townshend. See British Museum catalogue no. 2847., Publication date inferred from that of the Treaty of Paris to which this print refers., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792. and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
"An engraving, which is in some respects the sequel to "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, and "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, showing a party of workmen and tradesmen assembled in a room of the Merchant Seamen's Office, which was over the Royal Exchange. They are grouped about a large table, on which lies a long scroll or address. The president is a butcher, with a naked knife hi his hand; a tray at his feet contains a shoulder of mutton; doubling his fist, he cries: -- "I shall stick my Knife in Magna Charta, & cut up the Carcase of the Sill of Rights." A lean, hungry -looking man, sits grinning behind the butcher; next to the sitter stands a porter who declares: -- "D--mn his swivel Eyes I wish he may sink under his load." This refers to the marked squint of John Wilkes, who was at this time in prison and strongly opposed to the Court; see "John Wilkes Elected Knight of the Shire", British Museum Satires No. 4189, and "The Scotch Victory. (A.)", British Museum Satires No. 4196. A Dutchman, probably Mr. Muilmann, see "The Addressers", British Museum Satires No. 4273, declares: -- " Ah ! de gross Scrip for Mynheer too"; this is in reply to a Jew who exclaims: -- " Oh for a large portion of Scrip.", i.e. probably subscription scrip to Government loans, which was very profitable to the lenders, and often alleged to be used as a bribe by the ministry; see "The Battle of Cornhill", British Museum Satires No. 4274, and "Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition", British Museum Satires No. 4289. A barber, with a shaving dish and napkin under one of his arms, and holding a wig in one hand, stands before the scroll, signing his name to it; he says: -- "I've got an order for a new Wig, only for signing my Name." A gaunt Scotch pedlar, with a bale at his back, and carrying a wand, declares: -- "Saumy mun sign too, gin it be to the Deel, for my gued laird's sake", i.e. for the sake of the Earl of Bute, the reputed patron of Scotchmen, see "We are all a comeing", British Museum Satires No. 3823. A baker, with a basket of bread on his shoulders, approaches the table and says: -- "Brother Merchants follow my example & you'll never want Bread." A meagre chimney-sweep, clad in sooty garments, advances to the table and remarks: -- "Who knows but I may be appointed to a Chimney at Court.""--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Principal merchants and traders assembled at the Merchant Seaman's Office ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 2 (1769), page 134., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Merchant Seamen's Office -- Food: loaves of bread -- Petitions: Address of the Merchant Trades of London, March 1769 -- Peter Muilman., and Mounted to 32 x 42 cm.
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
Leaf 16r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
L. Scott
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Peddlers, Baskets, Watchmen, and Lanterns
Title and place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Image shows a street scene with multiple risk factors for spreading tuberculosis., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Commission Américaine de Préservation contre la Tuberculose en France, 3. Rue de Berri, Paris and Anciens Établts. Leopold Verger & Cie., Paris
Subject (Topic):
Tuberculosis, Prevention, Etiology, World War, 1914-1918, Death (Personification)., Poor persons, City & town life, Spitting, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Peddlers, and Skeletons
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
A street vendor: a full-length view of a woman in hat, scarf and shawl holding a basket of watercress
Alternative Title:
Watercresses
Description:
Title etched below image., Printing date from watermark., Printmaker and imprint from title page of book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., and Watermark: [Tu]rkey M[ill J] Whatm[an] 1818.
Publisher:
Samuel Leigh
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, City & town life, Peddlers, Vegetables, and Women
"A decrepit old man stands at the door of a house of ill fame at the corner of Portland Street; Mrs Burke is on the door-plate. One hand is on the knocker; he turns to scowl at a woman (right) who holds out a bunch of water-cress from a large shallow basket slung from the hip. A child clings to her shoulders; a little girl (left) with a small basket also offers him a bunch. Two young courtesans lean from a first-floor window. In the background (right), behind a spiked gate, are trees and a large house (or houses)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Watercresses, come buy my watercresses
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Children, City & town life, Mothers, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Vegetables, and Women
A London waterman shown full-length with his right arm raised and wearing a hat and a waterman's badge with an image of the sun on his left sleeve
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820.
