Three women itinerant simplers or herbalists returning home from Covent Garden market to Croyden on the Stockwell Road. In hats, ragged coats and patched skirts, with baskets and walking sticks. Simplers gathered champignons, mushrooms, watercress, dandelions, nettles, feverfew, bitter-sweet, etc., in the country to sell in London. Copperplate engraving drawn from life and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839.

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