Sujet

Pine-Apples, a penny a slice, 1845. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Pine-Apples, a penny a slice, 1845. Londoners buying fruit from a barrow: '...the mode of retailing them in the streets of the metropolis - just as cherries have been cried and sold some 200 years since...The attempt made last year to import into this country Pine-apples, from the West Indies, was attended with such success as to induce speculators to improve the culture. This was, indeed, requisite; for some of the specimens were acrid enough to set the teeth on edge...the Pine trade has already become permanently established: in one week upwards of 11,000 pine apples have been sold by one house !, averaging from 1s. [1 shilling] to 3s. each; and the same brokers have sold 100,000 this season. Meanwhile, they have been cried by cartloads and barrowfulls through the streets for sale!'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM21A07_081

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,0Mo (3,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 35,2cm / 4960 x 4160 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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