My Scrap Collection
October 20, 2018
For some time, I have been collecting Victorian scraps of tradesmen and street characters. I am especially fascinated by the mixture of whimsical fantasy and social observation in these colourful miniatures, in which even the comic grotesques are derived from the daily reality of the collectors who once cherished these images.
Street Photographer
Exotic Birds
Sweets & Dainties
Acrobat & Performing Dog
Performing Dogs
The Muffin Man
Street Musician
Street Musician
Baker
Smoker
Butcher
Waiter
Itinerant
Sweep
Naturalist
Lounge Lizard
Dustman
Costermonger
Spraying the roads
Milkman
Knife Grinder
Scottish Herring Girls followed the shoals around the East Coast, gutting and packing the herring.
Herring Girl
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These characters scraps are real beauties. I especially love the non harsh colour techniques.
I can remember the milkman coming around in a chariot type cart with churns and bottles when I as a child in the early 1930’s, a hangover from the Victorian era.
Gary
Oh dear, I recently binned a good 200 of these scraps, thinking they had been cutout of books!