print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1878,0511.668
- Title
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Object: Hot-cross bunns.
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Series: Characteristic sketches of the lower orders
- Description
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Street-scene; a cheerful, stout old woman with her foot on the step of a substantial residence, holding up a large basket from which a woman standing in the doorway at right is choosing buns to put on a plate, a child holding a doll, and a dog, at her feet, looking up at the basket eagerly; three children crowding round the old woman at left, one holding a baby, another reaching up; in the distance at left, a castellated building and gate. 1823
Hand-coloured etching with stipple
- Production date
- 1820-1823
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 85 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment see 1878,0511.659.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Leigh's New Picture of London
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0511.668
