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Auction: 342 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1007

British Satirical Prints: William Heath - "Paul Pry" (1795-1840). One of the Poor employed to mend the High Ways. Hand-colored engraving. Plate 10 of "Parish Characters in Ten Plates by Paul Pry Esq. Pub June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole Publisher of P. Pry Caricatures - None are original without his name". Lord Brougham as a road-mender, holding a stone-breaker and mopping his brow with a handkerchief. A few small thinning spots in border and very light peripheral soiling, otherwise Fine.


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