Buy my 4 Ropes of Hard Onyons

Buy my 4 Ropes of Hard Onyons

Onions, Onion Seller, Trading Profession, Street-Trader

An onion-seller hoists a pole over his right shoulder, from which hang four ropes of hard onions. This profession was common in London at the time this image was created.

Marcellus Laroon (the elder)

British Museum

Bookseller Pierce Tempest commissioned a series of prints entitled "Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life." The image of the onion-seller is taken from this collection of prints; it was scanned and published by the British Museum.

1688; reprinted from the same plates until c. 1821

Pierce Tempest, John Savage, Marcellus Laroon the Younger, Katherine Sadaniantz

Public Domain

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Scanned image from print; height: 238mm, width: 161mm

English, French, Italian

Done on paper; etching and engraving

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London, c. late 17th-early 18th centuries