Boy selling matches in front of Mansion House. Matchseller in hat, coat, breeches and toe-less shoes with basket of matches. The Palladian-style Mantion House was designed by George Dance as the Lord Mayor's residence. 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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