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Baking Or Boiling Apples! Dumpling Apples!

Watercolour
1804 (Made)
Artist/Maker
Craig (Artist)
Place of origin
London (Made)

Watercolour showing a woman wheeling a barrow of apples along a street. There is a name plaque above her which reads 'Str[a]tford Place.'


Object details

Category
Watercolours
Object type
Watercolour
TitleBaking Or Boiling Apples! Dumpling Apples! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Water-colour, pen and ink on paper
Watercolour
Pen and Ink
Paper
Painting
Brief description
Watercolour by William Marshall Craig showing a woman selling apples in Stratford Place, London, 1804. Reproduced as an aquatint in Richard Phillips' 'Modern London' of 1804.
Physical description
Watercolour showing a woman wheeling a barrow of apples along a street. There is a name plaque above her which reads 'Str[a]tford Place.'
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.7cm
  • Width: 11.4cm
The painted image does not fill the whole page. There is a margin around the image of about 2-3cm. In addition, this watercolour was made on a sheet of paper that was first folded into two halves. The two halves have now come apart, and these dimensions refer only to the painted half. The second blank half is mounted with the painted half since it bears the museum no.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Baking or boiling apples! Dumpling apples! (picture title; Margin: above centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
  • W.M.CRAIG.1804. (Signature; date; Margin: below centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
  • Stratford place. (Textual information; Margin: below centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
Object history
Purchased along with 8040.1 and 8040.3-10 from W. Headlam, November 10 1874. The purchase price below is for the group.
Production
Attribution note: Intended to be engraved as a book illustration
Subjects depicted
Fruit, Apples
Trade
Wheelbarrows
Occupations, Trading
Working Class
Places depicted
London
Stratford Place
Association
Phillips, Richard (Sir)
Bibliographic references
  • Celina Fox, 'Londoners', Thames & Hudson, 1987, pp.124, 144, 146, 163-4
  • Richard Phillips, 'Modern London', 1804/5
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8040:2

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Record createdOctober 16, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O48859/baking-or-boiling-apples-dumpling-watercolour-craig/
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