They reached Dublin in the summer of 1802, and lodged in Temple Bar, near Essex Bridge.

It was some little time before Faroni could send out the boys to sell pictures.

First he had the leaden frames to cast; then they had to be trimmed and coloured; and then the pictures--mostly of sacred subjects, or of public characters--had to be mounted.

The flowers; which were of wax, had also to be prepared and finished, ready for sale to the passers-by.
When Bianconi went into the streets of Dublin to sell his mounted prints, he could not speak a word of English.

He could only say, "Buy, buy!" Everybody spoke to him an unknown tongue.