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- Title:
The Cherry Girl
- Date:
- 1796
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (40 × 28.6 cm), Plate: 13 7/8 × 9 7/8 inches (35.2 × 25.1 cm), Image: 11 1/8 × 9 7/8 inches (28.3 × 25.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "#162"
Lettered below image: "362 | The Cherry Girl. | Published 4th April, 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street. London"; below title: "Sweet Cowslips I cry, and ground ivy I sell, | And round about London am known mighty well, | But when my sweet cowslips no longer abound, | I cry my sweet cherries a penny a pound. | But when y sweet cowslips, &c. | My Green nonpareils thro the winter I cry, | With fine golden pippins for those that will buy, | But when the warm season of summer comes round, | I cry my sweet cherries a penny a pound. | But when the warm season &c. | I rise with the lark and to market repair, | And the choicest of fruit in my barrow I bear, | With full honest weight, &c they're all round & sound, | I cry my sweet cherries a penny a pound | With full honest weight &c."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.809
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22502
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