Description: Petticoat Lane Market London 1896 Antique PrintA black & white print from a disbound book published in 1896, with another unrelated picture on the reverse side.Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.5cm x 23.5cm.Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7.25" or 25cm x 18cm.This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show normal signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description.All prints will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope or large letter size box for protection in transit.While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) PETTICOAT LANE.—According to Stow, Petticoat Lane was formerly called Hog Lane, "which," says that historian, describing it as it was forty years before he wrote, "had on both sides fair hedge-rows of elm trees, with easy stiles to pass over into the pleasant fields." As everyone knows, things are very different now. "Petticoat Lane," says Mr. Mayhew, "is essentially the old clothes district. Embracing streets and alleys adjacent to Petticoat Lane, and including the rows of old boots and shoes on the ground, there are, perhaps, between two and three miles of old clothes. The effect sometimes is very striking from the variety of hues and the constant flitting or gathering of the crowd into little groups of bargainers. It is a vista of dinginess. Dress-coats, frock-coats, great-coats, livery and gamekeepers' coats, paletots, tunics, trousers, knee-breeches, waistcoats, capes, pilot-coats, plaids, hats, dressing-gowns, shirts, Guernsey frocks, handkerchiefs—all are displayed. The light drab of some aristocratic livery, the dull brown-green of velveteen, the deep blue of a pilot jacket, the variegated figures on the shawls and dressing-gowns, the glossy black of the restored garments, the shine of newly turpentined black satin waistcoats, and the glaring green of some flaming tartan—these things, mixed with the hues of the women's garments, spotted and striped, certainly present a scene which could not be matched in any other part of the greatest city in the world, nor in any other portion of the world itself." This is also the centre of the Jews' quarter, where the unleavened cakes used in the Feast of the Passover are sold. Petticoat Lane proper is now called Middlesex Street.
Price: 6.99 GBP
Location: DEREHAM
End Time: 2025-01-17T08:20:23.000Z
Shipping Cost: 17.07 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 60 days
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Artist: Photo by Poulton & Sons
Print Surface: Paper
Style: Vintage
Material: Lithograph
Type: Print
Features: Bookplate
Subject: Cityscapes
Year of Production: 1896
Colour: Black
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Date of Creation: Antique (Pre-1900)
Listed by Self-Representing Artist?: No
Width (Inches): 10
Originality: Original
Height (Inches): 7
