Auction: 342 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1004
British Satirical Prints: William Heath - "Paul Pry" (1795-1840). Dusty Bob - the Parish Dustman. Hand-colored engraving. Plate 3 of "Parish Characters -- in Ten Plates by Paul Pry Esq. Pub June 12.1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket - Sole Publisher of P. Prys Caricatures - None are original without T. McLean's name". Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel as a dustman, standing, smoking a pipe and holding a handbell adorned with the Royal Arms, a broom and shovel; caption beside him "I dont vunder I looks black I has all the dirty work in the parish to do".
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