Water-cress seller in Hanover Square. Man in cap, coat, waistcoat, apron and boots with basket of fresh water cresses. In front of the garden railings in Hanover Square. House of wealthy West Indian plantation and slave-owner Edward Lascelles, Lord Harewood, in the background. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Edward Edwards after an illustration by William Marshall Craig from Description of the Plates Representing the Itinerant Traders of London, Richard Phillips, No. 71 St Paul’s Churchyard, London, 1805.

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