Paul Sandby R.A. (Nottingham 1730-1809 London)A cabbage net vendor
inscribed 'buy a Net a Cabbage net.....' (on the lower edge)
pen, grey ink and watercolour on laid paper watermarked L V Gerrevink
20.8 x 15cm (8 3/16 x 5 7/8in).注脚Provenance
Collection of Lord Bruce, by whom offered
Sale, Christie's, London, 12 April 1965, lot 61 (as part of Twelve Cries of London set)
With Sabin Galleries, where purchased by the present owner

This study is one of nearly 100 drawings of street traders that Sandby made from life, his subjects the vendors who populated the streets around his house in Carnaby market, Soho to which he had moved in 1760 after an extended sojourn at Windsor. The studies form an unsentimental social record of the times; Sandby published a selection of them as etchings in 1760 under the title Twelve London Cries.