Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns [graphic] / Rowlandson delin. ; Merke sculp.

Creator:

Merke, Henri, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London]
R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
1799 May 4

Copyright Date:

[4 May 1799]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 37.5 x 31 cm, on sheet 46.8 x 37 cm.

Notes:

Title etched below series title and number.

Abstract:

"A stout and burly woman stands at a street-door with a large basket of buns. A young woman and three children buy; the children help themselves, the woman holds a plate which she fills with buns. In the background (left) is a Georgian church with pediment and cupola; a fat parson in his surplice hurries along to escape from a woman and two children, who beg from him."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Cries of London ; no. 8
Hot cross buns, two a penny buns

Topics:

Baked products.
Beggars.
Children.
Churches.
City & town life.
Clergy.
Peddlers.
Vegetables.
Women.

Topics:

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints--England--London--1799.
Cries.
Etchings--England--London--1799.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1799.

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 6

Orbis Record:

12749875

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11792551

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9480
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 354

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11791747

PID:

digcoll:3996667