Exhibition: "Street Life: The 'Cries' in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877"

Free and open to the public Wednesdays, 2-4:30 pm, and by appointment. On view through August 21.

Curated by Gillian Forrester, independent art historian, curator, and writer

The exhibition explores the long-established genre of the “Cries,” or the representation of street vendors “crying” or broadcasting their wares.

The chronological scope of the exhibition is between 1711, when the first edition of Marcellus Laroon’s Cryes of the City of London was issued, and the publication of John Thomson’s Street Life in London in 1877.  The focus is primarily on British print culture, with the majority of the works published in and featuring London, but the exhibition includes works in other media and is transnational in scope.