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  • Three young women are on a quayside arranging the baskets and bottles from which they sell drinks. Coloured lithograph.
  • A girl is selling oysters to a customer in the street. Coloured lithograph.
  • A child buys eels from a woman with a basket, and three small boys are in a fishing boat with nets. Etching.
  • A woman selling plums: she carries the plums in a basket on her back, and is accompanied by a child. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A man selling bellows and another selling umbrellas. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A young woman carrying a tray of small pamphlets holds one out for sale. Photogravure by Gebbie & Husson after C. Fould.
  • A Chinese street-trader cutting up a fruit or vegetable into segments. Ink drawing, 18--.
  • A woman cooking pancakes is passing food on a plate through the window to people outside: one of them counts out his coins. Engraving by P. de Colle after C.W.E. Dietrich.
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Two groups of customers buying water to drink from a large ornate stand staffed by a man and a woman. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura.
  • A female milk seller is offering two children milk from the metal pails she has unyoked and rested on the ground. Colour process print after L. Schiavonetti after F. Wheatley.
  • A woman pushing a large wheelbarrow full of cherries. Etching.
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A man is carrying a knife grinder's wheel on his back. Coloured lithograph by G. Lenghi.
  • A woman carrying a tray of apples which she has for sale, accompanied by a child who is playing with a dog. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A soldier in Naples accompanied by a young woman asking for water from a Spanish water seller. Coloured etching by Luigi Pittori (?).
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher. Oil painting after C.W.E. Dietrich (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Constantinople: a street seller of confectionery with honey. Engraving by G. Scotin, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • People purchasing drinks from a cocoa vendor as others sit resting under a tree in fog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1827.
  • A man carrying a large basket filled with melons on his back he is offering one to a woman who smells it. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • A travelling barber in Spain (?). Etching by C. Allard-Cambray.
  • A market with people buying and selling bread, eggs and chickens. Chromolithograph by H. Moulin after Ferdinand Séré.
  • A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.
  • A water seller carries a canister of water with glasses and a jug on a small tray. Coloured lithograph.
  • A water-carrier carrying his barrel of water, with glasses and a jug on a tray. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man selling bread from a large basket hanging from his shoulders. Watercolour painting.