Dandy Pickpockets 1818

Dandy Pickpockets 1818Dandy Pickpockets. A countryman is studying caricatures in a print shop window, perhaps G. Humphrey, one of Tegg's competitors at 27 St. James's St. He is distracted by woman dressed in height of fashion while her male accomplices, both in extreme dandy dress 'dive' or steal from his pockets. This caricature is one of hundreds relating to dandies produced between 1816 and 1819.

Ackermann's 'The Microcosm of London' Vol

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The author and artist depict interesting features and landmarks along the way

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but which were of key importance to the community

View of a crowd of visitors

the ringing of bells and roar of voices

The charismatic Leighton had networked energetically with artists and patrons throughout the 1850s

and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom

the 16th Lancers

West India Docks and shows a gang of dockers trucking bags of sugar beneath an awning of washed sacks that are hung out for drying at

about floods and tides