Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks: Portraits from the Cries of London

by Sean Shesgreen

Seventy-four striking portraits of men and women on the margins of London society in the seventeenth century--including street vendors and petty criminals. "Buy my Dish of great Eeles, Any Old Iron take money for, Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters, Buy my fat Chickens, Fair Lemons & Oranges." At the end of the seventeenth century, the artist Marcellus Laroon became well known for a series of drawings that illustrated London's marginal men and women: street...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851245510
• ISBN13: 9781851245512
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.7"