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.
- Date:
- 1826
- Reference:
- 664648i
- Part of:
- Busby's humorous etchings
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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
Publication/Creation
London (the Artist's Dep[ositor]y 21 Charlotte St., Fitzroy Sq.) : [T.L. Busby], 1826.
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 11.7 x 14.8 cm.
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Lettering
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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 664648i
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