An old basket-weaver woman at the hearth in a garret, Regency era. She wears a hooded cape and fichu, smokes a pipe and drinks a glass of gin with her pet cat. Tom Takeall's neighbor in London. Taking Comfort. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Dagley from Takings, or the Life of A Collegian, John Warren, London, 1821.

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