Regency dandies watching two bare-breasted fishwives, Poll and Sall, fighting in Billingsgate fish market, London. Tom and Bob taking a survey after a night’s spree. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Henry Alken from Real Life in London, or, the Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis, Jones, London 1821. Anonymous imitation of Pierce Egan’s Life in London.

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