Picture No | 11007290 |
Date | 1848 |
Description | Cartoon, Dirty Father Thames |
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Cartoon, Dirty Father Thames. He stands in the river hooking detritus and rubbish floating there -- old shoes and boots, dead fish, bottles, dead mice and rats. An accompanying poem begins: "Filthy river, filthy river, Foul from London to the Nore, What art thou but one vast gutter, One tremendous common shore?"
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Source | Cartoon in ‘Punch’, 7 October 1848 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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