Sujet

'Do you want any brick-dust', plate VI of Cries of London, 1799. Artist: H Merke

Légende

'Do you want any brick-dust'. A pretty young maidservant stands on a doorstep, while the crier gazes into her face and fills her bowl with brick dust. They are watched from the doorway by a shrewish woman and a dog below. Plate VI of Cries of London, 1799.

Date

1799

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A93_450

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (3,7Mo) / 29,2cm x 42,9cm / 3445 x 5070 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal building buildings London England female women woman people male girl girls job man men bowl house doorway dog guy occupation color colour dress advertising doorstep century profession donkey sack lady gaze street seller 18th century Eighteenth Century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery brick dust seller maidservant street cry street life street trader TGN satire aquatint Thomas Thomas Rowlandson;Rowlandson H Merke Merke H