A savoyard peep show owner, walking to the right with his show strapped onto his back and holding a stick
Description:
Title engraved below 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., Reduced copy in reverse of no. 22 in M. Laroon's Cries of London., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
While four children of various ages feed themselves and each other different kinds of candy from round boxes, a mother with an infant in her lap wards off an approaching peddler with a large candy box which emits beams of light. The bearded peddler approaches from a winter landscape, and carries a cane in his hand and boxes on his back marked "influenza," "rhume," "catarrhe," "bronchite," and "grippe".
Description:
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from style of work., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
A chapbook of Cries, with hand-colored illustrations: The frontispiece shows a street scene in front of John Harris's shop with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background where a fashionable lady and a boy talk to a street-vendor selling goods from his basket. The shop window shows Harris sold medicines as well being a lending library and bookseller. The chapbook includes images and cries of a Georgian street vendors --- chimney sweeps, milkmaids, fish-women, watercress sellers, men making and selling mats and brooms or repairing chairs, sellers of cat and dog meat, swords and standards, nosegays and florists, sellers of live geese and chickens, foods like Banbury cakes or hot gingerbread, potatoes, strawberries, fresh fish, eels, lobsters and flounder, rabbits, matches, and a newspapers, and ending with two watchmen in front of the Watch-House. On the back wrapper is an advertisement for seven other works, "new editions of the following celebrated little works" each priced 1s, 6d.
Alternative Title:
Cries of London and Description of the cries of London
Description:
Title from printed title page., Published with yellow wrappers, the upper cover printed with the title and imprint surrounded by a single fillet border. On the verso: publisher's list of new editions., and With an inscription on flyleaf. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Topic):
Cries, Cities and towns, Occupations, Peddlers, Children's poetry, Picture books for children, and Street vendors
A post-chaise and four with armorial bearings, no signs of the driver, is being overturned on a busy High Street, after running over large barrels which lie beside a pavior's mallet, stones, and wheelbarrow as the two passengers scream in horror. The road is filled with other carriages, horsemen, and a stage-coach, and the sidewalks crowded with pedestrians, street-entertainers, and vendors. Groups of onlookers lean from the bow windows of the inn on the opposite side. Some of the characters depicted amongst the crowd of revellers on the stage coach are: a grenadier beating a drum; a man blowing a trumpet; and a Jew clutching his box. The busy sidewalks are crowded with the pedestrians including: two men and a lady; a gypsy with a basket and scales; a fiddler; and a singer. The scene includes many signs and placards as well
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, attribution, and imprint., and Mounted to 52 x 70 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 26th 1783 by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street & sold by F. Brydon, printseller, No. 7 opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and Kent
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Peddlers, Street entertainers, and Traffic accidents
Lying on his stomach, a giant Lord North appraises the ship Britannia which is heeling over by the shore, as he encourages the members of his cabinet to pillage it. Diminutive figures of Fox, Portland, possibly Stormont, and Burke, stand on his back holding large sacks of loot. To the right on the ground stands "Sir" Jeffery Dunstan, the popular "Mayor of Garratt," and used wig seller, saying, "Old Whigs and Sham Whigs."
Alternative Title:
Ministry upon a broad bottom
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., From The Rambler's magazine. See British Museum catalogue., and Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796., and Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Ships, Robberies, Peddlers, and Clothing & dress
Brown paper wrappers with printed title from upper cover within ornamental border. List of "penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York", on lower cover., "Decorated with wood-cuts from life.", Colophon: "Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate.", Cries accompanied by woodcuts and rhymes., Illustrated with woodcuts., Undated. Dated from examination of materials and styles., and For further information, consult library staff.
Cries of the city of London drawn after the life, Cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature, Arti communi che uanno per Londra fatte dal naturale, and Tempests cryes of London
Description:
All engraved. Includes two t.-p., Title-pages and captions in English, French, and Italian; the second t.-p. is not dated., Place of publication follows publisher's address., Date altered in plate from 1711 to 1733., Plates, including t.p., are signed: M. Lauron delin: P. Tempest exc. ML form a monogram., Probably engraved by John Savage (cf. pl. 71) though sometimes the engraving is attributed to Tempest or to Laroon., First ed. 1688 (50 pl.); 2d ed. 1711 (74 pl.), Plates 33, 67, 72 are wanting; duplicates of plates 26, 23, 68, laid in., Unidentified manuscript notes and numbers (in another hand) on versos of many of the hinged plates, giving detailed histories of the people depicted., and A made-up copy, formerly owned by Sir William Augustus Fraser and by C.W. Dyson Perrins. Some of the prints may have belonged to J. Gulston. Each plate bears Fraser's stamp.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Cries, Peddlers, Social life and customs, and Street vendors
Leaf 50. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature with a distraught lover interrupted by a seller of eels."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0615.101., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Two lines of dialogue below title: Bill, Bill, you'll break my tender heart, that's what you will ..., and On leaf 50 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Volume 2, opposite page 284. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman shown full-length, facing left, with a basket of oranges hanging from her left elbow
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "No. 19"--Upper left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Window mounted to 37 x 28 cm., and Bound in opposite page 284 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Aug. 12, 1772, by Picot & Co. in St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Peddlers, Baskets, and Oranges
