print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1878,0511.710
- Title
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Object: Saloop.
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Series: Characteristic sketches of the lower orders
- Description
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A saloop, or salep, seller; at left, an old, ragged woman seated at her stall, a table on which are a tea-urn, cups and saucers, she is cutting something and has a small bellows and a pail of roots or sticks at her feet; she looks up at her two standing customers at right, a soldier carrying a pack and leaning on his rifle, stooping with a smile to drink from a saucer, holding a cup in his other hand, a buxom young woman, also drinking from her saucer, standing beside him at right, wearing a headscarf, hat and cape. 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. Salep, also known in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as saloop or salop, is a drink made from the dried tubers of orchids.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Leigh's New Picture of London
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0511.710
