Cris de Paris,
Cris de Paris is a set of hand-coloured lithographic plates published in Paris by Delpech around 1822, drawn by Carle Vernet to record the street vendors and their calls for a city audience. The four plates show working Parisian sellers in full costume, each standing alone on a cobbled street with a basket, tray, or barrow of wares. A designer could take from them the period dress, the carried loads, and the simple figure-on-plain-ground compositions with hand-tinted washes.
