Four new ways of paying old debts [graphic]

"Four isolated characters, each surmounted by a caption. 'A Corinthian' [cf. BM Satires No. 14320]. A raffish would-be fashionable wearing a fur-collared coat, his tie passed through a ring, holds an eye-glass in one gloved hand, a long bill in the other. He looks over his shoulder to say 'I'll call and pay. A regular bad one'. A burly fellow with a squint, looking like a coachman, in battered hat, double-breasted greatcoat, and top-boots, stands full-face, saying, 'Vy I did pay!!!' An unfortunate. An old and emaciated man wearing a tattered apron over clothes once respectable, says with a hopeless gesture 'I can't pay!' A little ragged girl weeps beside him. 'Lawyer. Shark'. An elderly paunchy and truculent lawyer with a brief tied with red tape under his arm, says with a scowl 'I shan't pay!!!!'"--British Museum online catalogue