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Cherries

Watercolour
1804 (Made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Watercolour showing a woman selling cherries from a barrow outside St. James's Palace, London.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleCherries (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Water-colour, pen and ink on paper
Brief description
Watercolour by William Marshall Craig showing a woman cherry-seller outside St. James's Palace, London, 1804. Reproduced as an aquatint in Richard Phillips' 'Modern London' of 1804.
Physical description
Watercolour showing a woman selling cherries from a barrow outside St. James's Palace, London.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.7cm
  • Width: 11cm
The painted image does not fill the whole page. There is a margin around the image of about 2-3cm.
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Cherries (picture title; Margin: above centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
  • WM. CRAIG. 1804 (Signature; date; Margin: below centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
  • St James's palace (Textual information; Margin: below right; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
Object history
Purchased along with 8040.2-10 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
Places depicted
Association
Bibliographic references
  • Celina Fox, 'Londoners', Thames & Hudson, 1987, pp.124, 144, 146, 163-4
  • Richard Phillips, 'Modern London', 1804/5
  • Coombs, Katherine British watercolours : 1750-1950 . London: V&A Publications, 2012 p.87, pl.76
Collection
Accession number
8040:1

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Record createdOctober 16, 2000
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