Brick-dust seller with donkey in Portman Square

Brick-dust seller with donkey in Portman Square. In top hat, jacket, waistcoat, and breeches, with sack of brick dust used for knife-cleaning. In the background, houses of Blue Stockings Society salonist Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duke of Athol and Hamilton Nesbitt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Edward Edwards after an illustration by William Marshall Craig from Description of the Plates Representing the Itinerant Traders of London, Richard Phillips, No. 71 St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1805

1805 Breeches Catchphrase Cries Of London Description Of The Plates Edward Edwards Grit Modern London Richard Phillips Sack Sales Sales Patter Salesman Slogan Street Entertainer Street Performer Top Hat Tradesman Waistcoat William Marshall Craig

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