A Sketch in the Streets of London, 1858. Engraving '...from a Sketch of M. Louis a very curious specimen of English do not know how better to describe their general costume and appearance than by saying that it is akin to that with which Mr. Dickens has invested Barnaby Budge, plus a certain amount of bear about them some marks of gipsy origin in their bright dark eyes and long elf is believed that these particular street Arabs of London are known under the generic name of "birds-nest-sellers;" and the owl's nest in the Sketch
A Sketch in the Streets of London, 1858. Engraving '...from a Sketch of M. Louis a very curious specimen of English do not know how better to describe their general costume and appearance than by saying that it is akin to that with which Mr. Dickens has invested Barnaby Budge, plus a certain amount of bear about them some marks of gipsy origin in their bright dark eyes and long elf is believed that these particular street Arabs of London are known under the generic name of "birds-nest-sellers;" and the owl's nest in the Sketch before us, which is arranged with an almost artistic effort, would seem to bear out the deal in birds' nests of every kind, snakes, slow-worms, adders, lizards, hedgehogs, frogs, and also gather bulrushes, which they sell to is stated that snakes sell for five shillings a fetch sixpence and a shilling a dozen, and it is gravely asserted are regularly and constantly purchased by Frenchmen for culinary purposes; and one itinerant vender of these quasi comestibles is said to have supplied the keeper of a French hotel in Leicester-square regularly with three dozen a week during the season'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
Size: 2761px × 3716px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., /, 19th, 19th-century, animal, art, arts, bird, birds, black, britain, british, bulewski, bullrush, bullrushes, bw, century, child, children, collector, colour, concept, dickensian, engraved, engraving, flower, flowers, gipsies, gipsy, great, gypsies, gypsy, home, illustrated, iln, job, labour, latifolia, location, london, londoner, londoners, louis, nature, nest, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, occupation, owl, owls, patched, pavement, peddler, peddlers, pedlar, pedlars, people, plant, plants, poor, poverty, press, prey, print, profession, ragged, raptor, reedmace, ripped, sell, seller, selling, sidewalk, street, tattered, torn, trade, trader, typha, unknown, urchin, urchins, vendor, victorian, white, wild, wildflower, wildflowers, wildlife, work
