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Article: Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2004
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Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London. By Sean Shesgreen (Manchester University Press, 2002. 228pp., 157 b & w illus. 10 colour illus. $30.00).
Pictures of street sellers, with their shouts or trade recorded in captions of poetry or prose, are known as 'Cries' and appeared first in Paris in 1500. Fifty years later, they were established as a genre across Europe and America, featuring the hawkers of major cities. London Cries, depicting the lower orders of the capital, survive in three formats: as broadsheet panels of engravings, as ensembles of individual prints, and as illustrated books. Cries ranged in price from a halfpenny a sheet to ...
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