Itinerant billberry seller, London, Regency era

Itinerant billberry seller with basket of berries and cup. In cap with sprig of green, short jacket, tight trousers, boots. The fashion for the fruit started in the late 18th century, mostly from Hertfordshire. Billberries. Copperplate engraving drawn from life and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839

1839 Berries Capitalism Destitute Francis Douce Hertfordshire Itinerant John Bowyer Nichols John Thomas Smith Lower Classes Short Jacket Sprig The Cries Of London Tradesmen Vagabondiana 2 Working Class Working Poor

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