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RES 35 – "Courtiers Carousing in a Cadger's Den": this is a scene of the London underworld. A cadger was an itinerant huckster, or one who lives by thievery, trickery, and banging. Dickens once wrote about the "gentleman cadger." In this scene Cruickshank depicts the scene of drunken revelry in a lowlife setting. Some of the cadgers have pretensions of social status and can be seen wearing top hats and sporting canes.
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