Commerce Collection (page 7)

Market stall, Korea, 1900

Bourbon Quay, c1892-1938. Artist: Rene Leverd
Bourbon Quay, c1892-1938. Private collection

Place Du Marche-Aux-Fruits, Colmar, 1875. Artist: Michel Hertrich
Place Du Marche-Aux-Fruits, Colmar, 1875. Colmar is a town and commune in the Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France, private collection

Effects of Good Government on the City Life, (detail), 1338-1340. Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Effects of Good Government on the City Life, (detail), 1338-1340. Ambrogio Lorenzetti frescoed the side walls of the Council Room (Sala dei Nove) of the City Hall (Palazzo Pubblico) of Siena

Perfume Merchant, 1928. Artist: Louis Cabanes
Perfume Merchant, 1928. Published in Promenades a travers Le Caire, 1928

Souks, Cairo, 1928. Artist: Louis Cabanes
Souks, Cairo, 1928. Published in Promenades a travers Le Caire, 1928

Copper merchant, Cairo, Egypt, 1928. Artist: Louis Cabanes
Copper merchant, Cairo, Egypt, 1928. Published in Promenades a travers Le Caire, 1928

Merchant, 1828. Artist: Marlet et Cie
Merchant, 1828. A lithograph from L Inde Francais, 1828. From the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Marseille Quay, 1929. Artist: Emile Bernard
Marseille Quay, 1929

The Port of Genes, 1878. Artist: JL Gennato
The Port of Genes, 1878. From a private collection

Market and Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, 1823. Artist: John James Chalon
Market and Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, 1823. From the Collection Guillemot, Musee Carnavalet, Paris

The Goose Seller, 1826. This street trader carries two geese with trussed up legs in her hand, while the heads of others hang over the rim of the basket on her back

Green bean seller, 1826. The street trader carries a basket of green beans and displays some of them on the lid of the basket. From Arts, Metiers et Cris de Paris (Arts, Crafts and Cries of Paris)

Canning Dock, Liverpool, showing the Custom House, 1841. Sailing vessels can be seen moored in the basin as well as warehouses on the dockside. Canning Dock opened in 1737

Scene from Marco Polos Book of Marvels... early 15th century. Artist: Master of Boucicaut
Scene from Marco Polos Book of Marvels... early 15th century, showing merchants entering a walled town, mason and carpenter at work, a shopkeeper serving a customer, and men driving swine

The Aire and Calder Navigation, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1828. Artist: J Shury
The Aire and Calder Navigation, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1828. View showing shipping, warehousing and smoking chimneys in the background. From History of the County of Yorks

Entrance to the bullion vaults of the Bank of England, London, 1872. Scene showing ingots of precious metals, each of which would be checked for weight on the balance in the centre

Exterior view of the New York Stock Exchange, 1885

J Edward Simmons, President of the New York Stock Exchange, 1885

Exterior view of the National Bank, Glasgow, Scotland, c1850

Telling room, National Bank of Scotland, Glasgow, c1860

Washington E Connor, partner and broker of the Jay Gould stochbroking firm, 1885. Jay Gould was thought to do the largest brokerage business in the New York Stock Exchange at the time

Floor of the New York Stock Exchange, 1885

Cecil Rhodes, British-born South African, financier, statesman and empire builder, 1891. Artist: Spy
Cecil Rhodes, British-born South African, financier, statesman and empire builder, 1891. Rhodes (1853-1902) made his fortune in the Kimberley diamond mines

View of Hong Kong, 7 December 1865. Artist: Jean Henri Zuber
View of Hong Kong, 7 December 1865. View showing paddle steamer and sailing vessels in the harbour and the city nestling below mountains

Bazaar at Kabul during the fruit season, First Anglo-Afghan War, 1838-1842. Artist: James Atkinson
Bazaar at Kabul during the fruit season, First Anglo-Afghan War, 1838-1842. The British fought the Anglo-Afghan Wars in an attempt to block the expansion of Russias sphere of influence towards India

Testing weights and measures during the reign of Henry VII, England, 1497-1509. At bottom right measures which do not come up to standard are being burned

Interior of the Cloth Hall, Leeds, 1814. Artist: George Walker of Seacroft
Interior of the Cloth Hall, Leeds, 1814. This building was one of the great centres for the sale of woollen cloth. Merchants are bargaining over bolts/pieces of fabric

Bombay, the East India Companys port on the Malabar Coast of India, 1755. Company trading vessels are in the foreground and quayside warehouses and buildings behind

Covent Garden, London, showing stalls in the centre of the square, 1753. Covent Garden was the site of the principal fruit and vegetable market for the city from 1670 until 1974

The Royal Exchange, London, late 17th century. This is the second building which replaced the original built by Sir Thomas Gresham, which was destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666

Elizabeth I on her way to open the first Royal Exchange, London, 23 January 1571 (c1680). The building, designed by Sir Thomas Gresham, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666

The Royal Exchange, London, 1686. This is the second building which replaced the original built by Sir Thomas Gresham, which was destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666

Royal Exchange, London, late 18th century. This was the second Royal Exchange built after Greshams original building destroyed in Fire of London in 1666

Old Stock Exchange, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building was destroyed by fire in 1858

Hoard of Roman gold coins found in England

Strings of Cowrie shells. Through the ages, these have been widely used as a form of currency

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur, 1894. Artist: Henri Meyer
Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur, 1894. De Lesseps (1805-1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean

Merchant and his clerk at the dockside checking goods at a warehouse, 1823. From The Book of English Trades. (London, 1823)

Facade of The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, 1796. The Bank of England was established in 1694 to act as banker and debt manager for the government

Les Halles, Paris, 1786. Artist: F Jourdan
Les Halles, Paris, 1786. This famous French food market was moved to the suburbs in the 1960s. From Thierys Guide des Amateurs et des Etranger Voyageurs a Paris. (Paris, 1786)

Carpet Merchant, c1870-1913. Artist: Addison Thomas Millar
Carpet Merchant, c1870-1913

Corn-Market, Paris, 1836. The Corn and Flour Hall was built in 1772 by the Paris authorities, enlarged in 1782 and rebuilt after a fire in 1802

Merchants transporting goods to the coast and a waiting vessel by camel, 1575. From Cosmographie Universelle by Andre Thevet. (Paris 1575)

Headquarters of the Hanse Merchants or Esterlings in London, 1667
The Steel Yard in Thames Street, headquarters of the Hanse Merchants or Esterlings in London, England as it appeared in 1667

Assembly of the Provostship of the Merchants of Paris, 1528. Dignitaries sit on an elevated bench while the Secretary and his Clerk put the business of the meeting before them

The Shopping Arcade des Panoramas in Paris, 1807. Artist: Philibert Louis Debucourt
The Shopping Arcade des Panoramas in Paris, 1807. From the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Livestock Market in L Arbresle, France, mid-late 19th century. Artist: JB Louis Guy
Livestock Market in L Arbresle, France, mid-late 19th century. From the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

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