The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . 51 and varnished, and in some instances so thin that their bodiesare quite transparent. Tlie custom of casting figures in wax is very ancient, espe-pecially in Roman CathoUc countries, where they represent theVirgin and Child and other sacred subjects as articles of devo-tion for the poorer sort of people who cannot afford to pur-chase those carved in ivory. It is said that Mrs. Salmons exhi-bition of wax-work in Fleet Street, whose sign of a Salmon wasnoticed by Addison in the Spectator, owes its o
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . 51 and varnished, and in some instances so thin that their bodiesare quite transparent. Tlie custom of casting figures in wax is very ancient, espe-pecially in Roman CathoUc countries, where they represent theVirgin and Child and other sacred subjects as articles of devo-tion for the poorer sort of people who cannot afford to pur-chase those carved in ivory. It is said that Mrs. Salmons exhi-bition of wax-work in Fleet Street, whose sign of a Salmon wasnoticed by Addison in the Spectator, owes its origin to aschoolmistress, the wife of one of Henry the Sevenths bodyguards. This woman distributed little wax dolls as rewards tothe most deseriing of her scholars, and, it is reported, broughtthe art from Holland. Some few years ago a very interesting exhibition of artificialflowers was made in Suffolk Street, Charing Cross, by a femaleof the name of Dards, who had most ingeniously producedmany hundreds of the most beautiful flowers from fishes bones,which, when warm, she twisted into shap
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