Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.

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Title: Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.
Alternative Title: Cries of London ; no. 8
Hot cross buns, two a penny buns
Creator: Merke, Henri, printmaker.
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: 1799 May 4
Copyright Date: [4 May 1799]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A stout and burly woman stands at a street-door with a large basket of buns. A young woman and three children buy; the children help themselves, the woman holds a plate which she fills with buns. In the background (left) is a Georgian church with pediment and cupola; a fat parson in his surplice hurries along to escape from a woman and two children, who beg from him."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Title etched below series title and number.
Extent: 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 37.5 x 31 cm, on sheet 46.8 x 37 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Aquatints--England--London--1799.
Cries.
Etchings--England--London--1799.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1799.
Subject (Name): Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Subject (Topic): Baked products.
Beggars.
Children.
Churches.
City & town life.
Clergy.
Peddlers.
Vegetables.
Women.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9480
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 354