Two botchers repairing clothes, London, Regency era. The tailor and cobbler employed by Captain Flykite, a fashionable dandy, to mend his clothes and boots. Taking Stitches. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Dagley from Takings, or the Life of A Collegian, John Warren, London, 1821.

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