A potter making a sugar-mould, Child's Hill, Regency era

A potter making a sugar-mould while a boy turns the wheel. The moulds are used by sugar bakers to make sugar loaves. Drawn from life at a sugar-mould pottery at Child's Hill, Hendon, near Hampstead Heath, 1819. 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 Hendon John Bowyer Nichols John Thomas Smith Lathe Lower Classes Moulds The Cries Of London Tradesmen Vagabondiana 2 Working Class Working Poor

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