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Published / Created:: [September 1828]
Call Number:: 828.09.00.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire with a coal-man singing while playing on a harp, sporting butterfly wings, admired by fellow coal-men."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:: Title etched below image., For a later state with secondary title "March of intellect among the black-diamond carriers" etched in upper margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,1001.17., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject headings: Dustmen -- Coalmen.
Publisher:: Pubd. Septr. 1828 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Topic):: Butterflies, Carts & wagons, Coal, Harps, Singing, People associated with manual labor, and Working class
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > I'd be a butterfly born in a coal-sack!!! [graphic].

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:: [January 1828]
Call Number:: 828.01.00.04
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A caricature of a man astride a steam-generated, three-wheeled vehicle shaped like the body of a horse. Two fashionably dressed ladies in elaborate hats look on with disgust at the exhaust. In the background (left) a man leans on his shovel in front of three bags of coal labelled "Feed". In the background (center) a man feeds coal into the furnace of another vehicle
Alternative Title:: H. Alken's Illustration of modern prophecy, or Novelty for the year 1829 and Illustration of modern prophecy, or Novelty for the year 1829
Description:: Title from item., Title above image: H. Alken's Illustration of modern prophecy, or Novelty for the year 1829., and Quote above title, below image: Faugh the filthy fellow my Dear, the wretch feeds his horse with common coal.
Publisher:: Pub'd Jany. 1828 by S. & J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Coal, Clothing & dress, and Steam automobiles
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The progress of steam [graphic].