Two women stand before a knife grinder and his cart equipped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. The woman closest to the viewer hands him a pair of scissors while the other looks on. In the background on the right, a woman carrying a baby on her back walks away from the scene
Alternative Title:
Knives, scissors and razors to grind and Couteaux, ciseaux, rasoirs a repasser
Description:
Titles in English and French below image, engraved on either side of series title. 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.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Jan. 1, 1795, by Colnaghi & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Grinding wheels, Infants, Mothers, Scissors, and Street vendors
Same image as the one that appears as Plate 6 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows two women standing before a knife grinder and his cart equiped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. In the background on the right, a woman carrying a baby on her back walks away from the scene
Description:
Title from item. 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, Grinding wheels, Infants, Mothers, Scissors, and Street vendors
A scissor grinder stands beside his cart, mounted with a grinding wheel. He holds a pair of large scissors in his hands
Alternative Title:
Scissors grinder
Description:
Title engraved in image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: partially cut off name.
Publisher:
Samuel Leigh
Subject (Topic):
Carts & wagons, Grinding wheels, Occupations, and Scissors & shears
Watercolor depicting a man placing his elongated nose against an active grinding wheel that he turns with his right hand. A visual pun on the phrase " Put one's nose to the grindstone".
Description:
Title from pen and black ink inscribed caption below image. and Date from unverified data from local card catalog record.
