Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and song verses below title. Imprint statement supplied from: A catalogue of 18th-century British mezzotint satires in North American collections., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Cherry venders -- Irishmen -- Female costume: high-waisted dresses -- Reticule -- Miniature portrait as a brooch -- Pets -- Architectural details -- Wrought iron fences -- Songs: Patty O'Blarney.
Publisher:
Published 20th Sepr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Peddlers, Baskets, Hats, Miniatures (Paintings), Dogs, Doors & doorways, Fountains, and Children
A peddler stands full-length facing the viewer with a box supported by a harness around his shoulders. He holds a pair of scissors in his hand and in the box are combs, jewelry, watches, eyeglasses, etc
Alternative Title:
Peddler
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., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Street scene. The showman (right) stands in profile to the right looking up at Punch and Judy who perform on their tiny stage, the supports of which are covered by a checked material. A monkey wearing a cocked hat and coat stands on his shoulder and takes an apple from the basket on the head of an apple-woman. A man plays a hurdy-gurdy in the foreground on the extreme right. The spectators gaze up intensely amused: A milkman (left), his yoke on his shoulder, has put down his pail, from which a second monkey dressed as a woman is drinking. A young woman holds out a hat for coins, while she picks the pocket of a spectator. A third monkey crouches on the ground. Beneath the title: 'Now 's the Time for Mirth & Glee, - Sing & Laugh & Dance with me.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punch's puppet show
Description:
Title below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse below title: Now's the time for mirth & glee ..., Plate numbered '161' in lower left corner., and One of a series of Drolls.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Criminals, Crowds, Dogs, Milkmen, Monkeys, Organ grinders, Peddlers, Puppet shows, Spectators, and Street vendors
A peddler shown full-length walking left with two poles from which hang dead rabbits
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., and Reduced copy in reverse of no. 18 in M. Laroon's Cries of London.
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
