Drawing of a young woman, full-length, turned slightly right, wearing a her hair in a cap; she holds a wicker basket in the crook of each arm, filled with strawberries and cherries, She stands on a wooden platform in front of a fence constructed of tr...
Description:
Title written below image. From a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu 23 June 1750: We minced seven chickens ... which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp ... She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cher...
"Soldiers march impassively in double file through a crowded street, and over the prostrate bodies of those whom they have overthrown. Military arrogance and foppishness are personified by the officer, much caricatured, with a grotesquely elongated wa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Marching, Food vendors, Porters, Rifles, Barbers, Newspaper carriers, and Storefronts
"Soldiers march impassively in double file through a crowded street, and over the prostrate bodies of those whom they have overthrown. Military arrogance and foppishness are personified by the officer, much caricatured, with a grotesquely elongated wa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Marching, Food vendors, Porters, Rifles, Barbers, Newspaper carriers, and Storefronts
"Soldiers march impassively in double file through a crowded street, and over the prostrate bodies of those whom they have overthrown. Military arrogance and foppishness are personified by the officer, much caricatured, with a grotesquely elongated wa...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Marching, Food vendors, Porters, Rifles, Barbers, Newspaper carriers, and Storefronts
Watercolor depicting a scowling elderly merchant wearing a floppy hat and apron. She stands a table on which her wares are laid; she leans on a knife, stabbed point-down into the table's surface. On the table are a crude balance scale for weighing th...
Description:
Title from caption penned near lower edge of sheet.
"A young woman shown half-length to right with her back to the viewer, wearing a spotted neckerchief and a straw hat over her cap, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, holding a basket over her arm and holding up three fruits; in an oval."--B...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Women, Baskets, Fruit, Peddlers, and Food vendors
