Cat's & Dog's Meat (Bethlem Hospital)

Image of a young woman selling selling cat's and dog's meat from a wheelbarrow outside Bethlem Hospital. 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.
Horsemeat and bullock's livers were sold for twopence per pound, and a bunch of tripe for one penny. Cat's and dog's meat was sold in every part of London, and criers were mostly women (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).