Knife-grinder sharpening a knife in front of Whitehall. In bowler hat, coat, breeches and boots, using his left leg to drive whetting and grinding wheels to polish a kitchen knife. The facade of Whitehall designed by Inigo Jones 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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