This is a gallery of plates ‘representing the Itinerant Trades of London in their ordinary costume’ with ‘remarkable places given in the background’. These are taken from Modern London, published in 1804 by Richard Phillips. The engravings are by the English painter William Marshall Craig. Romantic London includes a version of Horwood’s Plan with these images mapped to their locations and including their descriptions, to which the gallery is intended to be a supplement. Right-clicking on an image and selecting ‘Open image in new tab’ will open the source file and allow for more detailed perusals. The images used here were released into the public domain by the British Library and can be reused freely. They can be downloaded from the BL’s Flickr account or from the Wikimedia Commons.
A list of the plates including the locations depicted is given below.
- BAKING OR BOILING APPLES – Stratford Place
- BAND-BOXES – Tabart’s Juvenile Library
- BASKETS – Whitfield’s Tabernacle
- BELLOWS TO MEND – Smithfield
- BRICK-DUST – Portman Square
- BUY A BILL OF THE PLAY – Drury Lane Theatre
- CATS AND DOGS’ MEAT – Bethlem Hospital
- CHAIRS TO MEND – Soho Square
- CHERRIES – St James’s Palace
- DOOR MATS – Charing Cross
- DUST O! – St. Mary-le-Strand
- GREEN HASTENS – Newgate Prison
- HAIR BROOMS – Shoreditch Church
- HOT LOAVES – St. Martin’s in the Fields
- HOT SPICED GINGERBREAD – The Pantheon
- KNIVES TO GRIND – Whitehall
- LAVENDER – Temple Bar
- MACKEREL – Billingsgate
- MATCHES – The Mansion House
- MILK – Cavendish Square
- NEW POTATOES – Middlesex Hospital
- OLD CLOTHES – Fitzroy Square
- POOR SWEEP – Blackfriars Bridge
- RABBITS – Portland Place
- RHUBARB – Russell Square
- SAND O! – St Giles’s Church
- A SHOWMAN – Hyde Park Corner
- SLIPPERS – Somerset House
- SOOT O! – The Foundling Hospital
- STRAWBERRIES – Covent Garden Market
- WATER CRESSES – Hanover Square