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Lithograph

c.1850s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A market scene with small children. A girl selling fruit to the left, a boy in patched clothing selling flags with the Prussian eagle to the right. In the centre, a woman with a bonnet and basket walks along with two well-dressed small children at her sides, the boy pointing towards a stall of toys with dolls, drums, ships, cannons, horses, and jumping-jacks. In the background to the right is a second-hand clothes stall with bonnets and clothes hanging outside.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Lithograph, coloured by hand
Brief description
Unknown. Scene in a market, with a toy stall. One of twelve genre scenes, Germany, c.1850s
Physical description
A market scene with small children. A girl selling fruit to the left, a boy in patched clothing selling flags with the Prussian eagle to the right. In the centre, a woman with a bonnet and basket walks along with two well-dressed small children at her sides, the boy pointing towards a stall of toys with dolls, drums, ships, cannons, horses, and jumping-jacks. In the background to the right is a second-hand clothes stall with bonnets and clothes hanging outside.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.51cm
  • Width: 20.64cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO 1963
Credit line
Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection
Accession number
E.2660-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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