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
A young woman stands in a city street singing, a tambourine in her one hand, as a man with a satchel peers from behind
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from imprint from the book., Plate from: Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the Lower Orders. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Singers, Street entertainers, and Tambourines
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre., and Description in an unidentified hand added below image on mounting sheet; window mounted to 38 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
"A vendor of ballads walking from the left singing from a ballad on the courtesan Kitty Fisher, holding a fishing line as a visual pun, with his wife and two children singing further off to right, illuminated by the sunlight falling from left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First and second part of Miss Kitty Fishers merry thought
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publication information from first plate in series., Twelfth plate from: Twelve London cries done from the life by P. Sandby. London, 1760., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "12" beneath lower right corner of image., and Temporary local subject terms: Catherine Maria Fisher, ca. 1738-1767, known as Kitty Fisher -- Theaters: Old Haymarket Theatre.
Publisher:
F. Vivarez and by P. Sandby
Subject (Name):
Fisher, Kitty, 1741?-1767.
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Sedan chairs, Singers, Street vendors, Singing, and Fishing & hunting gear
In the courtyard of St. James's Palace along St. James's Street: street vendors including a knife grinder; a chimney sweep; a woman holding a ballad entitled "The last dying speech of Macleane"; a funeral procession with the pallbearers in mourning carrying a coffin labeled "Trade"; a man pushing a wheel barrel filled with calves heads; and a man playing a hurdy-gurdy as a girl dances; two boys beg of bread as courtiers bemoan the absence of the king
Alternative Title:
St. James's in October, the King in Hanover
Description:
Title from caption engraved above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 'Price 6d., col'd 1s.'--Following imprint., Watermark., and Mounted to 33 x 44 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by T. Fox in the Old Baily according to act of Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Chimney sweeps, Coffins, Guards, Musical instruments, Organ grinders, Signs (Notices), and Street vendors
publish'd according to act of Parliament, March 7, 1771.
Call Number:
771.03.07.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two ballad singers, one of them standing on top of an overturned large basket, are singing to a small but pleased-looking crowd by the entrance to an inn. A child standing in front of the basket is reaching up to offer the singer a coin
