A woman selling oysters at night. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Morland.

  • Morland, Henry Robert, approximately 1716 1797.
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1855
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29619i
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A woman selling oysters at night. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Morland. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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She stands in front of a barrel of oysters, opening one with a knife. Llight shines on her face from a lamp

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London : Illustrated times, 1855.

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 30 x 20.3 cm

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The 4th of August. - An oyster-woman of the last century.-(From a painting by H. Morland). Henry Linton sc. Illustrated times No. X. London, Saturday, August 11, 1855. Price twopence. Stamped, 3d.

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Wellcome Collection 29619i

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After a mezzotint by Philip Dawe after Henry Morland, 1769

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