Billy the Match & the Gardener by John Dempsey - Place Mat kitten shown here in a palette

shown here in a palette of purples

Catalan numbers

Mile End Road

Wind and currents constantly shape and reshape grease ice into surreal

and other objets d'art

Billy the Match & the Gardener by John Dempsey - Place Mat kitten shown here in a paletteThis 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