Itinerant spoon seller, London, Regency era

William Conway, second-generation itinerant spoon seller of Crab Tree Row, Bethnall Green. Born in 1752, drawn from life in 1819. In top hat with leather bag of old and new spoons. Shoes made of upper leather from old boots. Hard metal spoons to sell or change. Copperplate engraving drawn 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 Capitalism Destitute Francis Douce Itinerant John Bowyer Nichols John Thomas Smith Lower Classes Spoons The Cries Of London Top Hat Tradesmen Vagabondiana 2 Working Class Working Poor

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