Water cresses, come buy my water cresses [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.

London : Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand, [1 March 1799]

1 print : etching with aquatint ; plate mark 30.3 x 37 cm, on sheet 44.5 x 37 cm

wove paper

Title etched below series title and number.

From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.

"A decrepit old man stands at the door of a house of ill fame at the corner of Portland Street; Mrs Burke is on the door-plate. One hand is on the knocker; he turns to scowl at a woman (right) who holds out a bunch of water-cress from a large shallow basket slung from the hip. A child clings to her shoulders; a little girl (left) with a small basket also offers him a bunch. Two young courtesans lean from a first-floor window. In the background (right), behind a spiked gate, are trees and a large house (or houses)."--British Museum online catalogue.

Watercresses, come buy my watercresses

English

March 28, 2016

Cries of London ; no. 5