Gabled houses from the Interregnum (1650s) on Winchester Street, London Wall, 1804. Characters on the right pavement include Professor of Languages Count John Theodora de Verdion with umbrella (a German woman who lived disguised as a man for 30 years), dwarf corn cutter Mr. Corderoy, and the Bishop of Saint Paul. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1814.

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