- Creator:
- Merke, Henri, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1799 January 1
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "One of a set of eight plates, No. 7 (not mentioned by Grego) being missing, all having the same signatures. They may have been intended to burlesque Wheatley's 'Cries' (1793-7), from which they appear to derive. [The subjects are different from those of Wheatley, and there is no element of copying, but the group, with sentimental or humorous incident and architectural background, was Wheatley's innovation on the traditional single figure representing the 'Cries of London'. Cf. W. Roberts, 'The Cries of London', 1934, p. 12.] A ragged man, with traps of various patterns slung round him, and a trap in each hand, offers his wares to an old man (left) who looks from his bulk or stall, on which are a bird in a wicker cage and a rabbit in a hutch. A little boy and girl, hand in hand, stare intently at the rabbit. A dog snarls at two rats in one of the traps. A woman looks down from a casement window over the pent-house roof of the stall. In the background are a church spire and the old gabled houses characteristic of the slums of St. Giles and Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Cries of London ; no. 1
- Description:
- Title etched below series title and number.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
- Subject (Topic):
- Birdcages., Children., Dogs., Houses., Men., Mousetraps., Peddlers., Prostitutes., Rabbits., Rats. , and Street vendors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buy a trap, a rat trap, buy my trap [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.
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- Creator:
- Merke, Henri, printmaker.
- Published / Created:
- 1799 May 4
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6
- Image Count:
- 1
- 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.
- Alternative Title:
- Cries of London ; no. 8 and Hot cross buns, two a penny buns
- Description:
- Title etched below series title and number.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher. and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
- Subject (Topic):
- Baked products., Beggars. , Children., Churches., City & town life., Clergy., Peddlers., Vegetables., and Women.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.
- Creator:
- Merke, Henri, printmaker. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010193827
- Published / Created:
- 1799 February 20
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "A stout and ragged woman, typical of St. Giles, bawls her broadsides inscribed: 'Last Dying Speech and Confession of the unfortunate Malefactors who were executed this Morning'. She stands full-face, one hand to her cheek, a pouch suspended from her neck hangs over her apron. She wears a cloak, and one foot is bare. Behind her is the corner of a house; in the doorway stands a young woman holding an infant; a little boy beside her looks up at the bawling woman, as does a dog. In the middle distance a little boy takes a handkerchief from a pedestrian's pocket. Behind (right) are houses."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Alternative Title:
- Cries of London ; no. 3 and Last dying speech and confession
- Description:
- Title etched below series title and number.
- Publisher:
- R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97872468, Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50022330
- Subject (Topic):
- Children., City & town life., Dogs., Mothers., and Pickpockets.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Last dying speech & confession [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.