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Watercolour - Sweet Lavender

Sweet Lavender

  • Object:

    Watercolour

  • Place of origin:

    London, England (Made)

  • Date:

    1804 (Made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    William Marshall Craig, born 1760 - died 1838 (Artist)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Water-colour, pen and ink on paper

  • Museum number:

    8040:6/A

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level F, case PD, shelf 174B

  • Image unavailable

Physical description

Watercolour showing a woman with a basket of lavender in one hand and a single bunch in the other. She is standing in front of Temple Bar.

Place of Origin

London, England (Made)

Date

1804 (Made)

Artist/maker

William Marshall Craig, born 1760 - died 1838 (Artist)

Materials and Techniques

Water-colour, pen and ink on paper

Marks and inscriptions

W M. CRAIG. 1804.
Sweet Lavender
Temple Bar
This day is published, priced 6''...

Dimensions

Height: 16 cm, Width: 10.8 cm

Object history note

Purchased along with 8040.1-5 and 8040.7-10 from W. Headlam, November 10 1874. The purchase price below is for the group.

Descriptive line

Watercolour by William Marshall Craig showing a woman selling lavender at Temple Bar, London, 1804. Reproduced as an aquatint in Richard Phillips' 'Modern London' of 1804.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Celina Fox, 'Londoners', Thames & Hudson, 1987, pp.124, 144, 146, 163-4
Richard Phillips, 'Modern London', 1804/5
When this watercolour was reproduced as an aquatint in Phillips' 'Modern London' the following 'Description of the Plate' was offered:

'LAVENDER-
"SIX bunches a penny sweet Lavender" is the cry that invites in the streets the purchasers of this cheap and pleasant perfume. The distillers of Lavender are supplied in the streets to the middling classes of inhabitants, who are fond of placing Lavender among their linen (the scent of which conquers that of the soap used in washing), yet are unwilling to pay for the increased pungency of distillation. '

There then follows a note about Temple Bar, the location of the itinerant trader in this plate.

Exhibition History

Londoners (Museum of London 28/04/1987-31/07/1987)

Associated names

Phillips, Richard (Sir)

Production Note

Attribution note: Intended to be engraved as a book illustration

Materials

Paper; Watercolour; Pen and ink

Techniques

Painting

Subjects depicted

London; Trade; Flower baskets; Working class; Capes (outerwear); Occupations, trading; Temple Bar (London); Flowers, Lavender

Production Type

Unique

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O48855
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