Thirty Two of the Original Drawings for 'Cries of London' (Harris 1804)
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TitleThirty Two of the Original Drawings for 'Cries of London' (Harris 1804)
Reference codeSLIV/A
Date[1804]
Scope and ContentBound volume containing 32 mounted pen-and-ink drawings [?by William Mulready], showing scenes of selling from London life. The drawings are not captioned, but appear in the published work as the following: 'Over, over, want a boat your honor?'; 'Buy a fat fowl'; 'Oranges, fine oranges'; 'One a penny, two a penny hot cross buns'; Old chairs to mend'; 'Any shoes, hats or old cloaths?'; 'Cherries round & sound, a penny a pound'; 'Any milk maids above or below?'; 'Come buy my fine singing birds'; 'Flounders, live flounders'; 'Nuts for nothing, all prizes & no blanks'; 'Fresh gathered scarlet strawberries'; 'Green & young hastings'; 'Images, very pretty! Very fine'; 'Any work for the cooper?'; 'Eels! Live eels'; 'Dust ho!'; 'Come buy my water cresses'; 'Come my little heroes! Here are colors for all regiments'; 'Shoe-strings. A penny a pair!'; 'Buy a roasting jack'; 'Sixpence a pound fine filberts'; 'Hot spice gingerbread hot'; 'White conduit loaves'; 'Buy a live lobster'; 'Potatoes, three full pound a penny potatoes'; 'New almanacks new, some lies & some true'; 'Young lambs to sell'; 'Rabbits, fine rabbits'; 'Buy a mat, or a hair broom'.
Conditions governing accessOpen, subject to the conditions outlined at fonds level
Extent1 volume (32 items)
System of ArrangementThe drawings are bound and arranged in the same order as the illustrations in the published work.
Level of descriptionfile