2-502-559 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

'Morning', plate I from Times of Day, 1738. Scene in 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. Tom King's coffee house can be seen on the right.