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One of the poor employed to mend the high ways
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Title
One of the poor employed to mend the high ways [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esqr.
Publication
[London] : Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures - none are original without his name, [12 June 1829]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 36 x 26 cm, on sheet 42 x 30 cm.
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Series title etched above image.
Text etched within image above the figure digging: This is poor work after all I see you are tired of it Frank besides we have not improved the High Ways a bit - getting very hungry could swallow a whole batch of rolls.
Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath.
Not in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Summary
Lord Brougham shown in an apron and mopping his brow doing the work of a road mender. He holds a sledge hammer and faces a pile of rocks is labeled "Reform."
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 18, 2024
Series
Parish characters in ten plates / by Paul Pry Esqr. ; pl. 10
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1829.
Etchings - England - London - 1829.
Artists' devices.
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