Billingsgate
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Billingsgate
/ 1644 (Collage 11714)
Guildhall Art Gallery: Permanent Collection
"Billingsgate, First Day of Oysters, Early Morning"; the market is shown crowded with vessels unloading oysters. It was traditional to begin eating oysters on the Feast of St James, 25th July.
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