Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks
Portraits from The Cries of London
Seiten
2021
Bodleian Library (Verlag)
978-1-85124-551-2 (ISBN)
Bodleian Library (Verlag)
978-1-85124-551-2 (ISBN)
Marcellus Laroon’s 'The Cryes of the City of London' presents, in seventy-four striking portraits, a panorama of London’s marginal poor as they existed at the end of the seventeenth century. This book provides a fascinating insight into the men and women who made their livelihood, legally and illegally, on the streets of England’s capital.
'Buy my Dish of great Eeles, Any Old Iron take money for, Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters,
Buy my fat Chickens, Fair Lemons & Oranges'
Marcellus Laroon’s 'The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life' presents, in seventy-four striking portraits, a panorama of London’s marginal men and women: street vendors, hustlers and petty criminals together with the shouts (or cries) they used to hawk their wares, as they existed at the end of the seventeenth century.
Following an illustrated introduction which sets Laroon’s engravings within the tradition of the Cries, each portrait is beautifully reproduced with a commentary that illuminates the individual street-seller and their trade. The commentaries provide a wealth of detail about their dress, the equipment they used to ply their trade, the meat and drink of those they served and their own diets. This book also mines historical archives for contemporary reports about the colourful and often desperate lives of these hawkers.
Drawing on the historic material found in the Burney Collection of English newspapers, this book provides a fascinating insight into the men and women who made their livelihood, legally and illegally, on the streets of England’s capital.
'Buy my Dish of great Eeles, Any Old Iron take money for, Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters,
Buy my fat Chickens, Fair Lemons & Oranges'
Marcellus Laroon’s 'The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life' presents, in seventy-four striking portraits, a panorama of London’s marginal men and women: street vendors, hustlers and petty criminals together with the shouts (or cries) they used to hawk their wares, as they existed at the end of the seventeenth century.
Following an illustrated introduction which sets Laroon’s engravings within the tradition of the Cries, each portrait is beautifully reproduced with a commentary that illuminates the individual street-seller and their trade. The commentaries provide a wealth of detail about their dress, the equipment they used to ply their trade, the meat and drink of those they served and their own diets. This book also mines historical archives for contemporary reports about the colourful and often desperate lives of these hawkers.
Drawing on the historic material found in the Burney Collection of English newspapers, this book provides a fascinating insight into the men and women who made their livelihood, legally and illegally, on the streets of England’s capital.
Sean Shesgreen (1939–2021) was Emeritus Professor of English and a Presidential Professor of Northern Illinois University.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Cries
Further Reading
Notes
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 100 Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 245 mm |
| Gewicht | 920 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85124-551-0 / 1851245510 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85124-551-2 / 9781851245512 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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