Boy road sweeper on Blackfriars Bridge. Bare-foot boy in coat, waistcoat and trousers, with hat and broom. On the old Portland stone bridge with lanterns over the River Thames, St. Paul's Cathedral in the background. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Edward Edwards after an illustration by William Marshall Craig from Description of the Plates Representing the Itinerant Traders of London, Richard Phillips, No. 71 St Paul’s Churchyard, London, 1805.

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