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A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by Wall Art
ART BY: Thomas Lord Busby
A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by Wall Art
ART BY: Thomas Lord Busby
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A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by is a caricatures, etchings by Thomas Lord Busby (1782–1838), dated 1826. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 4777 px (3.8 MB). It is filed under Prints and Neoclassicism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 42 works by Thomas Lord Busby, a British artist.
Thomas Lord Busby, sometimes spelt Busbey, was an English portrait artist, etcher, and engraver.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Thomas Lord Busby →
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