Plate 11 of Wheatley's Cries of London. This plate shows a ballad seller with strip ballads, selling her wares to two men on the sidewalk beside a building with two large columns; around them are two women, one holding a child, and a small boy feeding a dog
Alternative Title:
Chanson nouvelles deux sols le livret
Description:
Title from item., With the imprint statement: London Pubd, as the Act directs 1st. March 1796 by Colnaghi & Co. (late Torres) No. 127 Pall Mall., and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Subject (Topic):
Copperplates, Ballads, Dogs, Infants, Mothers, and Street vendors
Two women stand before a knife grinder and his cart equipped with a grinding wheel, on the sidewalk before an open door and under a street lamp. The woman closest to the viewer hands him a pair of scissors while the other looks on. In the background on the right, a woman carrying a baby on her back walks away from the scene
Alternative Title:
Knives, scissors and razors to grind and Couteaux, ciseaux, rasoirs a repasser
Description:
Titles in English and French below image, engraved on either side of series title. and Engraved after Francis Wheatley, who first exhibited his series of oil paintings depicting London street-sellers at the Royal Academy between 1792 and 1795.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Jan. 1, 1795, by Colnaghi & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):
Grinding wheels, Infants, Mothers, Scissors, and Street vendors