Toby, a black merchant seaman who lost all his toes on a voyage between Bermuda and Memel. He became a vagabond begging on Regency London streets with hat, torn coat and sticks. Carriage and road sweeper in the background. Toby, a well known imposter. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper after an original by John Parry from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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