A scene in a bank: actor John Liston as the comic character Paul Pry, quizzing glass raised to his eyes, stands at the desk of a red-faced banker (left) who sits with quill pen in hand, another behind his ear, lower lip jutting out as he glares at his customer. A second customer enters the door of the bank (right) with papers in-hand. Paul Pry is a character from a John Poole farce of the same name. Pry is characterized as a man consumed with curiosity, a busybody unable to mind his own business. Pry wears striped trousers, hessian boots, tail coat and top hat, and carries an umbrella that he leaves behind so that he would have an excuse to return and eavesdrop
Description:
Title from text below image., Possibly by George Edward Madeley. Cf. Mr. Liston as 'Billy Lackaday" in "Sweethears & wives"., Date of publication based the entry for partnership, Ingrey & Madeley whose earliest recorded imprint is 1824 and latest 1829., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithogc. Office, 310 Strand
