One of the poor employed to mend the high ways [graphic]

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Title: One of the poor employed to mend the high ways [graphic]
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [12 June 1829]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Pry caricatures - none are original without his name
Abstract: Lord Brougham shown in an apron and mopping his brow doing the work of a road mender. He holds a sledge hammer and faces a pile of rocks is labeled "Reform."
Description: Title etched below image.
Series title etched above image.
Text etched within image above the figure digging: This is poor work after all I see you are tired of it Frank besides we have not improved the High Ways a bit - getting very hungry could swallow a whole batch of rolls.
Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath.
Not in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; October 2024.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 36 x 26 cm, on sheet 42 x 30 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English