print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1878,0511.702
- Title
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Object: Singing birds.
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Series: Characteristic sketches of the lower orders
- Description
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Street-scene; a bird-seller, with several small cages strapped about his person and in his hands, standing outside a large house at right, handing up a caged bird to a girl standing on the step, on which also stand a small girl already holding a cage and a woman with her arm on the first girl's shoulders, all three delighted; behind at left, a monumental gate with a sculpture niche. 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
- 1878,0511.702
