print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1878,0511.678
- Title
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Object: Sweet lavender.
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Series: Characteristic sketches of the lower orders
- Description
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A stout, ragged lavender-seller standing in profile to left, her mouth open in her cry, clutching to her naked bosom a small, bawling child, a basket of lavender over her left arm and stalks in her hand, wearing a purple dress; behind at right, another lavender seller identically attired, her back to the viewer, accosting a male customer; behind at left, a fashionable young woman talking with a young man. 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
- 1878,0511.678
