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Refuse collectors

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Images referencing Refuse collectors

4 images from works
  • A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Two dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the establishment while the other waits patiently to read it for its scientific announcements. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A woman carrying a basket of eggs looks at a poor old man who is working as a chiffonnier and picking up rubbish with a stick: she exclaims that they were once lovers. Lithograph by H. Bellangé, 1826.
  • A fishwife carrying fish and a dustman ringing a bell. Coloured etching.

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    A London dustman is forced by noise abatement legislation to change his trade: he becomes a vendor of cat's meat. Coloured lithograph, 1839.

    | Date: [1839?] | Reference: 2491042i
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    A woman carrying a basket of eggs looks at a poor old man who is working as a chiffonnier and picking up rubbish with a stick: she exclaims that they were once lovers. Lithograph by H. Bellangé, 1826.

    Hippolyte Bellangé | Date: [1826] | Reference: 28183i
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    A fishwife carrying fish and a dustman ringing a bell. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 30434i
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    A dust cart with a refuse collector (dustman) ringing a bell to collect household rubbish. Coloured aquatint by W.H. Pyne, 1805.

    William Henry Pyne | Date: 1 January 1805 | Reference: 36928i
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    Two dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the establishment while the other waits patiently to read it for its scientific announcements. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    Robert Seymour | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 33682i

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