Silent blind beggar wear a sign that reads Pray pity the Blind, selling penny tracts from his hat. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817.

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