Here age, alas! both blind and poor, cries, 'basses good from door to door [graphic].

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Title: Here age, alas! both blind and poor, cries, 'basses good from door to door [graphic].
Alternative Title: Chapel of Ease, Cross Causeway
Published / Created: [1803]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: L. Scott
Abstract: A blind man stands in the foreground, in profile to the left, holding a cane in his left hand. The Chapel of Ease of St. Cuthbert's, in Crosscauseway, is seen in the background
Description: Title from verses etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Pickering & Chatto; July 2018.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10.7 x 10 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 647 803C
Collection Title: Leaf 17r. Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
Collection Date: Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott, bookseller end of College Drummond Street, 1803.

Genre: Cries
Etchings Scotland Edinburgh 1803
Engravings Scotland Edinburgh 1803
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Scotland
Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic): City & town life
Peddlers
Blind persons
Poor persons
Staffs (Sticks)
Churches
Subjects: City & town life > Scotland > Edinburgh
Peddlers
Blind persons
Poor persons
Staffs (Sticks)
Churches
Scotland > Edinburgh > 1803

Access: Public
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