Comments on: John Leighton’s Cries Of London

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:03:56 +0000

Sorry, belatedly catching up! You might like this about the exotic origins of rhubarb, much further east than Turkey: https://cambridgelibrarycollection.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/rhubarb/

By: Janet M

Janet M — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 19:55:52 +0000

This talented artist’s pictures are full of the details of life. Even the ugly bits look pretty. He had an obvious love of his subjects, especially the dogs. I love the dog riding on top of the cart in “Oranges” and want to know more about the scene.

By: Shawdian

Shawdian — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 18:21:22 +0000

Wonderful.
Thank you.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:36:49 +0000

I like these, and I agree GA the backgrounds are instantly recognisable, a very competent artist at work here as the figures are very well drawn too. I notice that most of them seem to be reasonably well shod apart from the poor match girl who has bare feet!!

By: Teresa Stokes

Teresa Stokes — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 12:50:38 +0000

These are absolutely wonderful. I particularly like the way the author has included a dog or dogs in almost every scene, not just the cat and dog meat seller. The image man has a pug with him, looking very like Hogarth’s pug “Trump”. In those days pugs had not the squashed faces of today but proper noses.

By: Richard rathbone

Richard rathbone — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 08:45:22 +0000

I presume that the milk vendor is Welsh. So many dairies in the bits of central London inwhich we have lived seem to have been owned by Welsh families – if names are. Guide- and I assume they had a cow or two in their yards. Maybe they were drovers who had stayed on in London?