Title from caption below image., Attribution below imprint statement: Ducôté & Stephen's lithogy. 70 St. Martin's Lane., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducote & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Title from caption below image., Approximate publication date from similar print in untitled series., and On same sheet: A bite at last!!!! That's two to day Gran-par!!
Publisher:
Pubd. by James Smith, 14 Wellington St., Goswell St. Road
Title from caption below image., Approximate publication date from similar print in untitled series., and On same sheet: See any Sam? Why there's one down at the bread already!!
Publisher:
Pubd. by James Smith, 14 Wellington St., Goswell St. Road
Title from heading above image., Artist's attribution continues: ... who particularly requests that his friends & the public will observe that he has not any connexion with the works put forth by Mr. Kidd of Chandos Street, expect "The gentleman in black" published some years ago and that is the only transaction he ever had or ever intends to have with the aforesaid Mr. Kidd the publisher of Chandos Street, West Strand., Caption below central image: Most approved method of pulling a fellows nose (as practised by St. Dunstan), Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 1 no. 5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above central image., Six lines of verse above imprint statement: This is a stick of rhetorick or to tell you plainly it's intent ..., Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper left corner: Pl. 2., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.