[Thomas Rowlandson's 'Cries of London'.]Cries of London No. 1. Buy a Trap, a Rat Trap, buy my Trap. [&] No. 2. Buy my Goose, my fat Goose. [&] No. 3. Last dying Speech & Confession [&] No. 4. Do you want any brick-dust. [&] No. 5. Water Cresses, come buy my Water Cresses. [&] No. 6. All a growing, heres Flowers for your Gardens. [&] No. 7. Old Cloaths any Old Cloaths. [&] No. 8. Hot cross Bunns, two a penny Bunns.
Rowlandson Delin. Merke sculp.
London. Pub: Jan. 1st [- May 4th] 1799, at Ackermann's 101 Strand.
Set of eight aquatints with hand colour, large margins. Each c.350 x 290mm (13¾ x 11½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. Time stained.
A full set of Rowlandson's burlesque of Francis Wheatley's famous 'Cries' (1793-7), with the street traders both uptown and in less salubrious areas of London.
BM Satire 9475-9480
[Ref: 51751] £2,000.00
London. Pub: Jan. 1st [- May 4th] 1799, at Ackermann's 101 Strand.
Set of eight aquatints with hand colour, large margins. Each c.350 x 290mm (13¾ x 11½"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. Time stained.
A full set of Rowlandson's burlesque of Francis Wheatley's famous 'Cries' (1793-7), with the street traders both uptown and in less salubrious areas of London.
BM Satire 9475-9480
[Ref: 51751] £2,000.00