Last dying speech and Confession, plate III of Cries of London Size:S: 45 x 30cm The inn was the meeting

The inn was the meeting place of the pilgrims in Chaucers' 'Canterbury Tales

'Early morning in the wilderness of Shur'

in the background is a house built in a fanciful combination of architectural styles from Grecian to Chinese

On the busy River Thames steam vessels pass up and down

Last dying speech and Confession, plate III of Cries of London Size:S: 45 x 30cm The inn was the meeting'Last dying speech and Confession'. A stout, ragged woman bawls out her broadsides. In a doorway behind stands a woman holding an infant with a boy and dog next to her. To the right a boy picks a handkerchief from a pedestrian's pocket. Plate III of Cries of London, 1799.