The Literary Dustman./ Ve Dines at Four, and arter that / I smokes a mild Awanna, / Or gives a lesson to the lad / Upon the grand pianna [...]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Wood engraving with fine original colour. Sheet 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed to printed border at sides, bottom corners snipped, laid on album paper.
One dustman lounges on a chaise longue smoking as another plays the piano and sings, with sheet music titled 'Puritani' (Vincenzo Bellini's 'il puritani' of 1835). 'The Literary Dustman' by Francis Robert Glindon (c.1799-1866) was first published in 1832.
[Ref: 57262] £140.00
Wood engraving with fine original colour. Sheet 180 x 205mm (7 x 8"). Trimmed to printed border at sides, bottom corners snipped, laid on album paper.
One dustman lounges on a chaise longue smoking as another plays the piano and sings, with sheet music titled 'Puritani' (Vincenzo Bellini's 'il puritani' of 1835). 'The Literary Dustman' by Francis Robert Glindon (c.1799-1866) was first published in 1832.
[Ref: 57262] £140.00