Hair Brooms (Shoreditch Church)

Image of a young man selling brooms, sieves and other turned objects outside Shoreditch Church. Published as part of a series of thirty-one prints after drawings by William Marshall Craig and engraved by Edward Edwards. See Summary at record 35.96.
These criers were turners and sold almost all turned household articles: hearth brooms, brushes, sieves, bowls, clothes-horses (also clothes lines). They sometimes carried their goods in carts (Itinerant Traders of London. Description of the Plates, representing the itinerant traders of London in their ordinary costume, with Notices of the remarkable places given in the background. London, 1804).