An old maid and child pawning a kettle for booze money at a pawnbrokers, London, Regency era. The boy clutches a gin bottle. Tom Takeall offers his fob watch. Three golden balls in the window. Taking Pledges. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Dagley from Takings, or the Life of A Collegian, John Warren, London, 1821.

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