Thursday 11 December 2008

Laroon Snr's Street Cries of London

These images of the citizens of London going about their daily business in 1688 by Marcellus Laroon Senior (British, b. 1653 - d. 1702) are well worth studying for costume detail of the 1680s - and they have a slightly festive feel to them or is that just me? Well this one is a Merry Fiddler so that one is sort of seasonal...

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