拍品 163
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KIRKIN (J., PUBLISHER): [THE CRIES OF LONDON], J. Kirkin, St. Paul's Church Yard, [circa 1820], a scroll, 3½ x 27½ in. (90 x 700 mm.), containing 11 hand-coloured engraved plates of travelling salesmen and saleswomen (3 plates repaired at verso, one plate frayed at lower margin), contained in original patterned-paper covered wooden box, operated by 2 wooden spindles, contemporary ownership inscription on rear of box 'Liza Jennings' -- [Joan, Prinny (the dog) and Pussy, no imprint, circa 1810], an (?) incomplete scroll, 4 x 50 in. (100 x 1270 mm.), containing 10 hand-coloured woodcut plates, each with a rhyming 4-line stanza about the characters (detached into 3 sections of 5, 3 and 2 woodcuts, 2 slight marginal tears, light soiling and fraying). (4)

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KIRKIN (J., PUBLISHER): [THE CRIES OF LONDON], J. Kirkin, St. Paul's Church Yard, [circa 1820], a scroll, 3½ x 27½ in. (90 x 700 mm.), containing 11 hand-coloured engraved plates of travelling salesmen and saleswomen (3 plates repaired at verso, one plate frayed at lower margin), contained in original patterned-paper covered wooden box, operated by 2 wooden spindles, contemporary ownership inscription on rear of box 'Liza Jennings' -- [Joan, Prinny (the dog) and Pussy, no imprint, circa 1810], an (?) incomplete scroll, 4 x 50 in. (100 x 1270 mm.), containing 10 hand-coloured woodcut plates, each with a rhyming 4-line stanza about the characters (detached into 3 sections of 5, 3 and 2 woodcuts, 2 slight marginal tears, light soiling and fraying). (4)

拍品專文

The 11 plates of 'The Cries of London' comprise 'A Mutton Pie or an Eel Pie, Come they are all Hott', 'Grey Pease, Hot. Hot', 'A White Line, Jack Line, or a Cloath's Line', 'Who'll see my raree Show, my Gallant Show', 'Buy my Quatern of Gudgeons, my Plaice, Buy my Flounders', 'A Longtail Pig, or a Short tail Pig, or a Pig without a tail, a Sow Pig, or a Boar Pig, or a Pig with a Curling tail', 'Two a groat & four for sixpence Whitings. Come buy my Whitings', 'Holloway Cheese Cake', 'Scotch Cloth a groat a Yard', 'Hot Gingerbread, Smoking Hot', and 'Pray remember ye poor Prisoners'.