Two bone-pickers
Two bone-pickers sitting on the stairs with a dog, one of them stitching patches together to tack to his coat. Bones are sold to burners at Haggerstone, Shoreditch and Battlebridge for two shillings a bushel
Picture No
14117873
Media ID
47847008
Size
3438px x 5721px
(5.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Copperplate etching by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817
Date
1816
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1810s 1816 1817 Beggars Bones Collecting Mendicants Patching Pickers Stitching Tramps Vagabonds
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