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Piccadilly

St Peter's Hospital was commonly known as the Fishmongers' Almshouses

No 27: a small Bluecoat boy challenges a large schoolfellow

The barracks were built between 1776 and 1802

Morning Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Piccadilly'Morning', 1738. Scene from Hogarth's Times of the day. Covent Garden, London, early on a winter morning. A small fire burns in the foreground. A stall keeper is seated on a basket. A thin, elderly woman attended by a forlorn foot boy in an elaborate coat watches a flirtation between a market woman and a soldier.

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