A London Nuisance / A Pleasant way to Lose an Eye

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A London Nuisance / A Pleasant way to Lose an Eye

BM14292-a-london-nuisance-1835-0503

identifier: BM14292-a-london-nuisance-1835-0503

title: A London Nuisance / A Pleasant way to Lose an Eye

date: 1825

description: A fashionably dressed man walking along the pavement is struck in the eye by one of the handles of a meat tray carried on the shoulders of a butcher's boy. The man staggers back from the impact while the latter looks over his shoulder the opposite way. The background is the garden of a London square with uniform houses. Source: George

description: British Museum #14292

format: 27.3 cm x 22.5 cm

type: Paper

type: Etching, hand-colored

coverage: London, England

relation: LUCA2017.47 1825

subject: London

subject: Society

subject: Satire

subject: Great Britain

creator: Dighton, Robert

relation: Michalak Collection

source: Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections

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