'Any work for John Cooper', trade card, 1916

Any work for John Cooper', trade card, 1916. An itinerant cooper, or barrel-maker, wearing breeches and stockings, cap and jacket and carrying a saw and coil of wire of his shoulder. Number 11 in the 1916 series 'Cries of London, 2nd Series' by John Player & Sons. The images on these cards are based on a variety of 17th-18th century engravings that portrayed street traders hawking their wares. The most notable of these was the series 'The Cryes of London' drawn by Marcellus Laroon in 1687. However, many other series followed, such as the hand-coloured engravings produced in 1792-1796 by Francis Wheatley. ©SSPL/Science Museum