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Peddlers

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  • A travelling peddler with a tray of goods crying up his wares while on the road. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A Jewish pedlar with a box of watches and jewelry offers them for sale to a young woman. Coloured engraving, 1827.
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • A pedlar of jewelry reads from a sheet, ladies inspect his wares, and a shepherd looks delighted. Engraving by S. Davenport after J. Holmes after C.R. Leslie.
  • A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).
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    A pedlar of jewelry reads from a sheet, ladies inspect his wares, and a shepherd looks delighted. Engraving by S. Davenport after J. Holmes after C.R. Leslie.

    Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859. | Date: [1833] | Reference: 29906i
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    Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.

    Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859. | Date: 1867 | Reference: 29922i
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    A travelling peddler with a tray of goods crying up his wares while on the road. Woodcut by J. Amman.

    Amman, Jost, 1539-1591. | Date: [1568] | Reference: 34899i
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    Les marchands droguistes de la montagne de Lure / Gisèle Roche-Galopini.

    Roche-Galopini, Gisèle. | Date: [1998], ©1998
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    A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).

    | Date: [1850] | Reference: 29926i
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