Portait of an Itinerant seller of elegies, London

Portait of a third-generation Itinerant seller of elegies, London, 19th century. He sold celebrity funeral elegies, Christmas carols and love songs. In cap, great coat and wide trousers, holding a large basket of printed papers and scrolls. 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 19th Century Capitalism Destitute Elegies Francis Douce Great Coat Itinerant Seller John Bowyer Nichols John Thomas Smith Lower Classes Poems Portait Scrolls The Cries Of London Tradesmen Vagabondiana 2 Working Class Working Poor

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