London Cries

This collection of links focuses on the images and texts that featured the patter of London costermongers.

See also Print/popular culture on this site, and Pinterest page, Cries of London

• Several posts at Jane Austen’s World
• Matilda Battersby, “Street Cries: depictions of London’s poor: A new exhibition of prints and paintings at the Museum of London presents a diverse spectacle of the Capital’s impoverished circa 1800,” Independent, 21.3.2011
• British Library: The Cries of London; The Moving Market, or Cries of London; Scenes and Cries of London; Broadside on ‘The Cries of London’; The Cries of London
• “The Cries of London,” Anon. 17thc, London Transport’s Poem for the day
• British Museum holds many items
• Eighteenth Century London: Street Cries of London, Christian-Albrechts-Universität
• Curator’s Choice: A Moving Panorama of London Cries, Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton U
• “London Cries,” The Story of a House, Glessner House Museum, 22.2.2016
• “The lost cries of London: reclaiming the street trader’s devalued tradition,” The Gentle Author, The Guardian, 24.11.2015
• Many, many posts at Spitalfields Life by the Gentle Author of The Cries of London.
• Cries of London, Graphic Arts, Princeton University Library
• Charles Hindley, A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern, Illustrator: Thomas Bewick and John Bewick, Project Gutenberg
• Cries, Itinerants and Services, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian
• The Met holds many items
• Charlie Taverner, “Reading the London Cries: How to Analyze Food Sellers in Art,” The Recipes Project, 21.11.2017
• Andrew White Tuer, Old London street cries ; and, The cries of to-day : with heaps of quaint cuts including hand-coloured frontispiece, 1885 (University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Collections; also at Internet Archives)
• “Cries of London” in the Thordarson Collection, U of Wisconsin-Madison
• London Cries, Yale Centre for British Art

[Linking image on Cabinet: London Cries: Fun upon Fun, Paul Sandby, 1759]