Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1804-04-25
Hot Spiced Gingerbread (Pantheon)
Image of a gingerbread seller outside the Pantheon. Published as part of a series of thirty-one prints after drawings by William Marshall Craig and engraved by Edward Edwards.See Summary at record 35.96.
These oblong flat cakes were sold for a halfpenny in winter. In summer the trader depicted in this plate would sell Banbury and other cakes from the same location (Itinerant Traders of London. Description of the Plates, representing the itinerant traders of London in their ordinary costume, with Notices of the remarkable places given in the background. London, 1804).
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 35.96/8
- Object name:
- Hot Spiced Gingerbread (Pantheon)
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- Production date:
- 1804-04-25
- Material:
wove paper, ink, watercolour
- Measurements/duration:
- H 245 mm, W 191 mm (paper), H 132 mm, W 100 mm (printed image)
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- Record quality:
- 60%
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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