Location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods

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Open-air market outside the temple of Shah Ahmed, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Coloured lithograph by R. Carrick after Lieutenant James Rattray, c. 1847.

A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.

The Grassmarket with Heriot's Hospital in the background, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by G. Aikman, 1841, after Storer.

The bazaar of the coppersmiths in Cairo. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1848, after D. Roberts.

Scales specially adapted for weighing livestock. Engraving, late eighteenth century.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in a village square with the assistance of a monkey. Pen drawing.

St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the receiving room with half-timbered houses to the right and fruit and vegetable vendors setting up stalls in the foreground. Coloured lithograph.

Street market with the mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares at a country market, assisted by a woman. Colour stipple engraving by L.-M. Bonnet after J.-P. Caresme.

A fish market in India. Gouache drawing, 18--.

A market vendor selling rice from his store. Gouache painting.

Herb-market and Holy Trinity Column, Vienna, Austria: panoramic view. Engraving by R. Parr after J.E.F. van Ert.

Calendarium astrologium: or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1681. : It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year. Declaring, the general state of the year, with the sign each day therein; eclipses, full sea, terms and their returns; sun rising and setting, weather, monthly predictions, &c. Also rules for physic and husbandry with sundry other useful observations, not common to be found in almanacks. Unto which is added, a description of the most eminent roads from town to town, and the certain time of any mart or fair, happening in any of them. / By Thomas Trigge, Gent. student in physic and astrology.

Gallen. 1649 : A new almanack for the said year. Usefull for the kingdome of Great Britain: containing directions to such that use marts and fairs, also to travellers that coast the kingdome, with other notes of good consequence. Made by Tho: Gallen mathemat. Being the next after leap year.

People in a street market in South Africa; representing rights and responsibilities in avoidance and treatment of AIDS. Lithograph after Moving Images, ca. 1996.

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Markets

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Images referencing Markets

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Gallen. 1649 : A new almanack for the said year. Usefull for the kingdome of Great Britain: containing directions to such that use marts and fairs, also to travellers that coast the kingdome, with other notes of good consequence. Made by Tho: Gallen mathemat. Being the next after leap year.

The Grassmarket with Heriot's Hospital in the background, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by G. Aikman, 1841, after Storer.

Scales specially adapted for weighing livestock. Engraving, late eighteenth century.

People in a street market in South Africa; representing rights and responsibilities in avoidance and treatment of AIDS. Lithograph after Moving Images, ca. 1996.

Markets

Images from the collections

Images referencing Markets

Works from the collections

Gallen. 1649 : A new almanack for the said year. Usefull for the kingdome of Great Britain: containing directions to such that use marts and fairs, also to travellers that coast the kingdome, with other notes of good consequence. Made by Tho: Gallen mathemat. Being the next after leap year.

The Grassmarket with Heriot's Hospital in the background, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by G. Aikman, 1841, after Storer.

Scales specially adapted for weighing livestock. Engraving, late eighteenth century.

People in a street market in South Africa; representing rights and responsibilities in avoidance and treatment of AIDS. Lithograph after Moving Images, ca. 1996.

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