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Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Title(s):
Cries of London.
Published/Created:
[London] : R. Ackermann, 1799.
Physical Description:
8 leaves : all color illustrations ; 37 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
S 206.92 (Folio A)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Suite of 8 hand-colored etchings by Merke after designs by Rowlandson.
Caption title.
Each leaf has imprint of R. Ackermann, variously dated from Jan. 1st to May 4, 1799.
BAC: British Art Center copy is bound in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on front and spine.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 409
Subject Terms:
Cries -- England -- London (England) -- Pictorial works.
Cries-London.
London (England) -- Manners and customs -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
Peddlers -- England -- London (England) -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Cries.
Contributors:
Merke, Henri, printmaker.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834, publisher.
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  • Plates: Buy a Trap, a Rat-Trap, buy my trap
  • Buy my Goose, my Fat Goose
  • Last dying speech & Confession
  • Do you want any brick dust
  • Water Cresses, come buy my Water Cresses
  • All a growing, a growing, here's Flowers for your Gardens
  • Old Cloaths any Old Cloaths
  • Hot cross Bunns two a penny Bunns

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