[The Little Fruit Seller 1670 by Bartolomé Estéban Murillo]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
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View of an engraving that depicts a boy holding a basket of grapes, watching a girl counting out her money. Albumen print; Yellowing from edges. Inscription in pencil beneath print: 'Murillo ?'
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of an Italian ice cream seller, with customers crowded round his barrow: 'Italian ice-men constitute a distinct feature of London life, which, however, is generally ignored by the public at large, so far as its intimate details are concerned....
Cheap fish of St. Giles's. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of a fisher-seller and his stall, with customers crowded round: 'It has often been remarked that but for our cheap fish supply the poor of London would undoubtedly be reduced to the most acute stages of starvation. Notwithstanding, therefore, the...
'Mush-fakers' and ginger-beer makers. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a ginger beer maker with his barrow and an itinerant umbrella-repairer ('mush-faker'), posed on Clapham Common: 'According to a rough estimate there must be about 300,000 galons of ginger-beer sold per annum in the streets and immediate ne...
The seller of shell-fish. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of a shellfish seller's stall in the street, with customers gathered round: 'The street purveyors of shell-fish find their principal customers among the poor in such quarters as Whitechapel, Drury Lane, the New Cut, Lambeth; and in the immediate...