Nosegays, Watercress girl, Brewer’s Dray and Twopenny-Post Boy. Itinerant sales girls selling nosegays 19, and watercress on the street 20, a brewer driving a waggon with beer barrels drawn by a dray horse 21 and twopenny-post boy with bugle riding a post pony 22. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of children’s books in the early 19th century.

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