A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.

  • Busby, Thomas Lord.
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1826
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664648i
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A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A broadside advertising "Mechanic's Institution for the Improvement of the Mind" is posted up on a wall. A passer-by snatches a leg from the meat tray of the butcher's boy and hides it under his coat

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London (the Artist's Dep[ositor]y 21 Charlotte St., Fitzroy Sq.) : [T.L. Busby], 1826.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 11.7 x 14.8 cm.

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The rise, and fall, of literature. 1826. Designed by T.L. Busby

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 8, London 1947, no. 14918

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Wellcome Collection 664648i

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