Two bone pickers sitting on the stairs with a dog

Two bone pickers sitting on the stairs with a dog. One sews patches onto his patchwork coat of bits of old velvet, carpet, cloth, etc. Bones are sold to burners at Haggerstone, Shoreditch and Battlebridge for two shillings a bushel. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817

Anecdotes C19th Mendicant Notoriety Patch Patchwork Pickers Vagabondiana Wanderers

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