Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827

Title:

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

Copyright Status:

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

Contents:

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

Subject Terms:

Cries -- England -- London (England) -- Pictorial works. | Peddlers -- England -- London (England) -- Pictorial works. | London (England) -- Manners and customs -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Cries-London.

Form/Genre:

Cries.

Contributors:

Merke, Henri, printmaker. | Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834, publisher.