Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns [graphic]Merke, Henri, printmaker[4 May 1799]eng"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 catalogueTitle etched below series title and number.1 print : etching with aquatint border on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 37.5 x 30 cm, on sheet 49 x 30.3 cm.Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.