Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 10 7/8 inches (22.9 × 27.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4098
Gallery Label:
James Pollard’s The Greengrocer belongs to a set of four designs showing London food-sellers, the other drawings representing the shop-fronts of a butcher, a poulterer, and a fishmonger. These were engraved in aquatint as London Markets and published in 1822. By the late eighteenth century London shops gradually installed glazing, and proprietors displayed their wares behind glass. Sellers of fresh food, however, tended to cling to the older convention of keeping an open window onto the street. Pollard’s series of prints belongs to the tradition of depicting the health and strength of the country at large as a well-stocked English shop. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
