Write 'em or let 'em alone [graphic]

Portrait of an elderly man in profile facing to the right and gazing sternly through his spectacles. In his hand he holds a sheaf of papers; another stack of papers fill the pocket of his coat. He stands on boards, perhaps a platform. He is identified in the British Museum catalogue as the merchant Robert Pulsford who died ca. 1835; he and his brother were merchants at 7 Great St. Helens