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  • An itinerant poor saleswoman selling hearthstones. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman selling hot peas from the pot he carries under his right arm. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Matthew Robinson-Morris, second Baron Rokeby, an eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Page.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Drawing.
  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
  • Baron D'Aguilar, an eccentric merchant farmer with starving animals, and farm buildings in the background. Stipple engraving.
  • Henry Dimsdale, an eccentric who calls himself 'Mayor of Garratt'. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Filippo Giuliani, a 'water-drinker'. Line engraving, 1680.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Etching by J. MacArdell.
  • Jenny Darney, a travelling eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • An itinerant salesman selling lemons from a bag in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • An old man in a top hat sitting in a wooden cart with wheels that resembles a coffin, pointing at a passage in the book he is reading. Etching by J.T. Smith.
  • Nice New, an eccentric street peddler of Reading. Engraving by R. Cooper.
  • John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787.
  • The eccentric Baron D'Aguilar and friend amidst his starving livestock. Line engraving, 1803.
  • A man in eccentric military costume, perhaps personifying mulled sherry. Etching.
  • George Romondo, an eccentric mimic. Engraving by G. Scott, 1805.
  • Baron D'Aguilar, an eccentric merchant farmer with animals and farm buildings in background. Stipple engraving by R. Page.
  • An itinerant salesman selling pickled cucumbers from a large plate he balances on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Two street cleaners grubbing the surface of a street with brooms and knives. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Two boys selling matches. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • An itinerant salesman selling the doormats that are strapped to his chest. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Etching.
  • Anne Siggs, an eccentric lame beggar. Engraving, 1804.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Soft-ground etching.
  • John Brown, walking. Etching by J. Kay, 1819.
  • Henry Constantine Jennings, an eccentric collector. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Frontispiece to "Etchings of remarkable beggars itinerant traders and other persons of notoriety in London and its environs by John Thomas Smith". Coloured etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.