Regency dandies in the vegetable market at Covent Garden. Two Irish labourers talk with a prostitute, while two dustmen buy coffee from a hot drinks stall. Behind the coffee, tea and saloop seller stands a procruress. Tom and Bob taking a stroll down Drury Lane at five in the morning. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Real Life in London, or, the Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis, Jones, London 1821. Anonymous imitation of Pierce Egan’s Life in London.

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