The Foundling Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, 1807. Founded by Captain Thomas Coram in 1739 to take in orphans and discarded children. Copperplate drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm from his Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the 18th Century, Longman, Hurst, London, 1808. Malcolm (1767-1815) was an American-English topographer and engraver, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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