Following are illustrations of peddlers & hawkers (itinerant tradesmen and vendors) at work. Notice the different methods used for carrying their wares, and the variety of wares sold by the peddlers.
Fols. 30 , 32 , and 42 , Life of St. Denis (BNF Fr. 2092), 1317
A tinker , The Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS Add. 42130, fol. 70v), 1325-1335Sellers 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), 1409Sellers of fermented milk (fol. 57v), curdled milk (fol. 59v), and thrushes (fol. 104v), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
Woldeste þou hafe lordis to lyfe as laddes on fote,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), 1484Hawkers 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
Proverb: Every peddler praises his goods , engraving after a design by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, c. 1559-1569The peddler pillaged by apes , 1562The Street-Vendor , Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stände auf Erden , 1568Street-vendors from Rome by Ambrogio Brambilla, 1582Street-vendors from Cologne , 1589The flower-seller by Pieter Pieters A peddler of apothecary bottles by David Teniers, 17th century
