"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...
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1t., 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Children, Dogs, Houses, Men, Mousetraps, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Rabbits, Rats, and Street vendors
"A fat man stands at the door of a house chaffering with an elderly couple (left). In each hand he holds a goose by the neck. The woman holds up a third goose to her nose, with an expression of suspicious anger; her husband sniffs at it and holds out ...
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1t., 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
"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 ped...
Alternative Title:
Hot cross buns, two a penny buns
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 4, 1799, at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Baked products, Beggars, Children, Churches, City & town life, Clergy, Peddlers, Vegetables, and Women
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 o...
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.
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
"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 ...
Alternative Title:
Last dying speech and confession
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 20, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Children, City & town life, Dogs, Mothers, and Pickpockets
"A young woman in rustic dress, shown three-quarters length to left, holding a basket of grapes, wearing a broad-brimmed hat with a ribbon, her hair loose."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 1st, 1786, by J. Young, No. 28 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Full half-length portrait of a young woman, directed slightly to right, facing and looking to front, head inclined to left; wearing a bonnet and a cloak; hands holding a tray of oysters
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 1st, 1786, by J. Young, No. 28 Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
"A decrepit old man stands at the door of a house of ill fame at the corner of Portland Street; Mrs Burke is on the door-plate. One hand is on the knocker; he turns to scowl at a woman (right) who holds out a bunch of water-cress from a large shallow ...
Alternative Title:
Watercresses, come buy my watercresses
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Children, City & town life, Mothers, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Vegetables, and Women
