Billy the Match & the Gardener by John Dempsey - Place Mat John Dempsey

Billy the Match & the Gardener by John Dempsey - Place Mat John DempseyThis image is from an impressive collection of watercolour images of London street people made by the itinerant English painter John Dempsey throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. The exhibition profiles the stories of town criers, match sellers, chimney sweeps, street food vendors, and numerous other characters populating the urban landscape of Regency era and early Victorian Britain. Remarkable in their incisive realism and providing

"Not all those who wander are lost

Printed onto a high quality 28 x 28 cm table placemat with a high gloss finish

and Max Showalter

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The painting was extremely controversial when first exhibited because of its realistic depiction of a carpentry workshop with shavings on the floor

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Population explosions

This image is from an impressive collection of watercolour images of London street people made by the itinerant English painter John Dempsey throughout the first half of the nineteenth century

and numerous other characters populating the urban landscape of Regency-era and early Victorian Britain

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starring John Wayne

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