Georgian gentleman mugged by three pickpockets in a slum, London. Robbed of his tricorn, wig, purse and papers. A boy steals eggs from a basket at right. Doctor Syntax robbed in St. Giles. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Isaac Robert Cruikshank from The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, in the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis, J. Johnson, London, 1820.

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