'Do you want any brick-dust', plate VI of Cries of London, 1799. Artist: H Merke

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'Do you want any brick-dust'. A pretty young maidservant stands on a doorstep, while the crier gazes into her face and fills her bowl with brick dust. They are watched from the doorway by a shrewish woman and a dog below. Plate VI of Cries of London, 1799.

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