Sujet

'Water Cresses, come buy my Water Cresses', plate V of Cries of London, 1799. Artist: H Merke

Légende

'Water Cresses, come buy my Water Cresses'. An old man stands at the door of a brothel at the corner of Portland Street, with two prostitutes leaning out of a first floor window. He scowls at a woman who is holding out a bunch of watercress to him. A small girl also offers him a bunch. Plate V of Cries of London, 1799.

Date

1799

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19A93_451

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,9Mo (4,8Mo) / 29,9cm x 41,8cm / 3532 x 4940 (300dpi)

Mots clés

road building buildings London England female women woman people male girl girls job man men offering house street doorway window guy occupation color colour lane avenue dress advertising Westminster doorstep location century profession lady prostitute scowl prostitution watercress street seller 18th century Eighteenth Century City of Westminster Guildhall Library & Art Gallery brothel Portland Street street cry street life street trader TGN watercress seller satire aquatint Thomas Thomas Rowlandson;Rowlandson H Merke Merke H