Peddlers

Following are illustrations of peddlers and hawkers, including itinerant tradesmen and street-vendors, at work. (Knife grinders appear on a separate page.)

Notice the different methods used for carrying their wares (including baskets and wheelbarrows), and the variety of wares sold by the peddlers.

• Fols. 30r, 32r, and 42r, Life of St. Denis (BNF Fr. 2092), 1317
• A tinker, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 70v), 1325-1340
• Sellers of olive oil (fol. 15), fermented milk (fol. 57), and curdled milk (fol. 57v), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF NAL 1673), c. 1390-1400
• Border from a page in the Grandes Heures de Jean de Berry (BNF Lat. 919, fol. 42), 1409
• Sellers of fermented milk (fol. 57v), curdled milk (fol. 59v), and thrushes (fol. 104v), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• The Monkey Cup, c. 1425-1450
Woldeste þou hafe lordis to lyfe as laddes on fote,
prelates als prestes þat þe parischen yemes,
prowde marchandes of pris as pedders in towne?

Wynnere and Wastoure, ll. 375-377

• Men selling turnips (fol. 61), among other produce-sellers, Libro de componere herbe et fructi (BNF Ital. 1108), c. 1471
• The capture of Pontoise, Vigils of Charles VII (BNF Fr. 5054, fol. 91v), 1484
• A man sells goods from a basket to another man standing in the doorway of his house as Christ is sought by a rich young man, Vita Christi (PML M.894, fol. 69v), c. 1485
• Hawkers in Les cris de Paris, c. 1500 (with their "cries" printed above their pictures): itinerant merchants selling books, matches, glassware, produce, stain removal, cakes & pastries, lanterns, turnips, firewood, broad beans, rags and scrap metal, turnips, herring, milk, knife-sharpening, chimney-sweep, used shoes, brooms
• A woman selling live birds outside, as Mary goes to the Temple by Albrecht Dürer, 1503
• A man selling live birds outside, as Mary goes to the Temple, c. 1515-1525
• Ecce Homo by the Brunswick Monogrammist, c. 1545
• Proverb: Every peddler praises his goods, engraving after a design by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, c. 1559-1569
• The peddler pillaged by apes, 1562
• The Street-Vendor, Das Ständebuch, 1568
• Street-vendors from Rome by Ambrogio Brambilla, 1582
• Street-vendors from Cologne, 1589
• The flower-seller by Pieter Pieters
• A peddler of apothecary bottles by David Teniers, 17th century