Here Madge doth trudge thro' wet and dry, what'll buy salt, is Madge's cry [graphic].
- Copyright Date:
- [1803]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 11.1 x 10 cm
- Notes:
- Title from verses etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate from: Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented : accompanied with views of several principal buildings of the city. Edinbr. : Sold by L. Scott ..., 1803.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark. - Abstract:
- A scene on a city street: in the foreground an old woman, hunched over and leaning on a cane, carries a basket on her back. On the left in the mid-field another woman kneels in the street using a sieve(?). In the far distance left, a woman carries a yoke with two pails. A fourth woman looks out the window of a building in the right foreground.
- Topics:
- Baskets.
City & town life--Scotland--Edinburgh
Older people.
Peddlers.
Staffs (Sticks) - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Cries.
Engravings--Scotland--Edinburgh--1803.
Etchings--Scotland--Edinburgh--1803. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Cries of Edinburgh characteristically represented.
- Call Number:
- 647 803C
- Orbis Record:
- 14100689
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr37365
- OID:
- 16740418
- PID:
- digcoll:4715647
