"Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties" [graphic].

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Title: "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties" [graphic].
Creator: Ducôté, A., active 1829-1832, lithographer
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: 1834.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducote & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Abstract: A satire on a working man's interest in reading: On a city street, a laborer with a large load of furniture -- desk, chairs, brooms, etc. -- is distracted with the paper he is reading and hits a gentleman in the face with the leg of the desk
Description: Title from caption below image.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22.2 x 18 cm
Language: English

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