Chickens [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Samuel Leigh]
[ca. 1800]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 14 x 9 cm

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published.
Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Reduced copy in reverse of no. 29 in M. Laroon's Cries of London.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954; Acquisitions no.: 954-5-9-144.

Abstract:

A peddler with a pole over his right shoulder from which hang two cages with birds inside, walks left away from the viewer. He carries a third cage in his left hand. His left sleeve is patched at the elbow.

Associated Names:

Busby, T. L. [Printmaker]
Leigh, Samuel [Publisher]

Topics:

Birdcages
Chickens
Occupations
Peddlers

Language:

English

Genre:

Cries
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1800

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

Call Number:

800.00.00.66

Orbis Record:

8980382

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09641

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10952773

PID:

digcoll:951108