Joint Stock Street mb-code 2495343 A Ticket-porter

A Ticket-porter

She was the heroine of the last tale in the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

while the monkey mimics his pose

View from the River Thames with boats and crew on the water

the most active in the desersion [sic]

Joint Stock Street mb-code 2495343 A Ticket-porter'Joint Stock Street', 1809. People looking at placards inviting subscriptions to unsound companies pasted on a wall outside a hospital for the victims of speculation mania. The flotation of companies was under discussion owing to the attempts of Winsor to procure a bill to legalize a Gas Light Company, also to the promotion of companies for bridges, public works etc.