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Nosegays, Watercress girl, Brewer's Dray and Twopenny-Post Boy

6340346 Nosegays, Watercress girl, Brewer's Dray and Twopenny-Post Boy by Taylor, Isaac (1730-1807); (add.info.: Nosegays, Watercress girl, Brewer's Dray and Twopenny-Post Boy. Itinerant sales girls selling nosegays 19, and watercress on the street 20, a brewer driving a waggon with beer barrels drawn by a dray horse 21 and twopenny-post boy with bugle riding a post pony 22. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of children's books in the early 19th century.); © Florilegius

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Salad herbs, plantes condimentaires pour salades

Salad herbs, plantes condimentaires pour salades. Parsley, Apium petroselinum, cicely, Myrrhis odorata, watercress, Nasturtium officinale, cress, Lepidium sativum, and summer savory, Saturja hortensis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Corbie after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Horticulture: Jardin Potager et Jardin Fruitier, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Salad herbs, plantes condimentaires pour salades. Parsley, Apium petroselinum, cicely, Myrrhis odorata, watercress, Nasturtium officinale, cress, Lepidium sativum, and summer savory, Saturja hortensis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Corbie after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Horticulture: Jardin Potager et Jardin Fruitier, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Date:

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Workroom at Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission

Blind, Maimed and Crippled Girls at making artificial flowers at John Groom's Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher, was concerned for poor and often disabled flower-sellers and in 1866 set up the Watercress and Flower Girls? Christian Mission, later based at Hendon and Clacton. Date: Date unknown

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