Pray Remember the Puppet Shew Man Nineteenth Century George Speaight Archive The Victoria & Albert Museum |
This Nineteenth Century, hand-etching is inscribed “Pray remember the Puppet Shew Man (sic.) and depicts, fittingly, a crowd at a puppet show as the bottler (money collector) works his way through the crowd.
The
caricature-style image is meant to reinforce the roughness of the characters
and the inscription is written in common London-street parlance of the
Nineteenth Century.
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