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Inscribed in graphite, center left: "R.6 2nd large paper ed'n"; lower center: "originally published in "The Copper Plate Magazine" (J.W. Nov 41)"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "4899"

Watermark: "I 7 LEP" (W/m of William Lepard, in Archaeologia).

Lettered upper left: "The Itinerant."; lettered, upper right: "WARWICKSHIRE"; lettered, lower left: "Plate 91. Engraved by Storer from an Original Drawing by W: Turner."; lettered, lower right: "Publish'd Novr. 2; 1795, by J. Walker Rosomans Street."; lettered, lower center: " BIRMINGHAM. | BIRMINGHAM | THIS town, greatly famed for the ingenuity of its inhabitants, is pleasantly situated on the side of a hill in the county | of Warwick; about 110 miles from London, 23 from Warwick, and 17 from Coventry | BIRMINGHAM, including the hamlets of Deritend and Bordsley, is about two miles in length, and nearly of the same. | breath: it is extremeley populous, and is daily increasing in size and wealth. The inhabitants of both sexes, from infancy | to old age, are all employed in some branch or other of the various manufactures here carried on, in gold, silver, steel, | &c. as well for ornament as use; and of such exquisite taste and workmanship as to excite the attention of the curious. | Here are two churches, one of which is said to have the finest cemetery in Europe, both excellent sets of bells and | chimes, which play every three hours, and a different tune for each day in the week. These are three chapels of ease | to the established church; Quaker, Presbyterian, and the Dissenters' meeting-houses. Several public schools; one for | the education of 130 boys, founded by Edward VI. is a noble structure; the others supported by voluntary contributions. | BERMINGHAM is not incorporated, to which its consequence may, in a great measure, be owing, as it is free for any | person to settle in. The government is vested in two constables, two bailiffs, and a headborough | The navigable canals, made and making about the place, may be considered as models for ingenuity and convenience, | particularly in the locks, & c. and they offered a communication by water to the rivers Severn, Trent, Mersey, &c. and | passing near several collieries, convey at an easy expanse the necessary fuel and heavy materials for their manufactiones, | which is distruted by the same cheap conveyance to the various places of consumption and exportation. | The spirit of manufactory is not confined to BIRMINGHAM alone, but spreads to a considerable distance round; one | place we cannot omit noticing; Soho, about two miles off, was, a few years ago, a barren heath, and now exhibits one | of the largest manufactories in the world, employing several hundred persons in | The lower part of the town, being chiefly the warehouses and manufactories, has, from the innumerable columns of | smoke continually ascending, contracted a very dirty, and rather mean appearance; but the upper part is well-built; and | furnished with shops and houses that rival the metropois, It has a theatre which stands foremost in the rank of places of | that description out of London; a Vauxhall, assembles, and every other species of amusement is here to be found; to | which the inhabitants, supposed to be about 60,000, offered ample support. | The fairs in BERMINGHAM are held on the Thursday in Whitsun week, and on the 29th of September. The market | day is Thursday, but every day has that appearance to those used only to see such markets as are usual in most country towns."