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Notes
P.H. Muir, rev. of Kaufrufe und Strassenhändler. Cries and Itinerant Traders by Karen Beall, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 558.
The figure of one thousand copies is based upon the count of the first edition of Hogarth's dramatically successful Harlot's Progress issued in 1732 when the market for engravings in London was much keener than it was in 1688; considering that a total of approximately eight copies of both Laroon editions are known to have survived, the estimate seems generous.
Karen Beall, Kaufrufe und Strassenhändler. Cries and Itinerant Traders (Hamburg: Hauswedell, 1975), p. 126.
Unfortunately plate twenty-three ("The merry Milk Maid") is of no use in dating the Library of Congress Laroon. On the basis of certain fundamental similarities with "The merry milk maid" in Karen Beall's E 11, it seems safe to suggest that this print belongs to a suite of ten criers that Gole etched after Laroon's designs. Gole died around 1737.
The word "Vat" in the title is not a misprint in the original but an attempt to represent phonetically the speech of the lantern operator who is intended as a foreigner.
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