Billingsgate Fish Market c1808-1810. A print from "The Microcosm of London", by William Henry Pyne (1770-1843). Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) and Auguste Charles Pugin (1762-1832). There was a fish market on Billingsgate Wharf as early as the 16th century but it did not become formally established until an Act of Parliament in 1699. Here Rowlandson depicts the original open air Billingsgate Fish Market of the early 19th century.

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