Images of the outcast : the urban poor in the Cries of London / Sean Shesgreen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shesgreen, Sean, 1939-2021.

Contributor:

Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cries of London.

Cries--In art.

Cries.

Poor--In art.

Poor.

Cries--England--London--History.

Urban poor--England--London--History.

Urban poor.

Street vendors--England--London--History.

Street vendors.

History.

London (England)--Social conditions--History.

London (England).

England--London.

Penn Provenance:

Albert, Daniel M. (donor) (Albert Collection copy 1 & 2)

Albert, Eleanor (donor) (Albert Collection copy 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This lavishly illustrated volume, featuring 170 images, offers a comprehensive and original survey of a fascinating collection of images of the lower orders of London. The London Cries is a body of graphic art produced between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided continually changing representations of the tradesmen and street hawkers that roamed London from its beginnings right up to the present. Analyzing prints, drawings, lithographs, and paintings done during this time period, Sean Shesgreen traces portraits of ordinary men and women who made their living on the streets of this bustling city; characters include milkmaids, cheapjacks, beggars, prostitutes, Merry Andrews, religious fanatics, and other colorful figures of their stripe. Images of the Outcast examines the Cries in relationship to the historical actualities of street trading, bourgeois attitudes toward the poor, and other forms of art. Through a lively discussion of the prints, drawings, sketches and oils of artists, from the anonymous craftsmen of the sixteenth century to Theodore Gericault and others, Shesgreen provides an important overview of this significant genre. Many of the riveting images the author discusses have never been published or analyzed before.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-220) and index.

Local Notes:

Albert Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert.

ISBN:

0813531519

0813531527

OCLC:

51208733