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Prints: P1226
Title
Paul Pry among the Bankers
Subject
Artist
Ingrey and Madeley
Date
1835
Dimensions
height: 21cm
width: 26cm
width: 26cm
Other materials
coloured lithograph
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Professor Jim Davis, acquired by the Garrick Club in 2024
Other number
E0162
This print depicts the comedian John Liston in the character of the nosey busy body Paul Pry. He is depicted in his usual clothes of striped trousers, black boots, a blue coat, top hat, holding an umbrella in one hand and his pince-nez to his eyes with the other hand. A grumpy looking red nosed banker is seated behind a desk on the left, holding a quill in one hand, with another tucked behind his ear. A third man is entering the bank through the door on the right. Cartoonists often used the character of Paul Pry to question or mock the establishment of the 19th century. In this case Paul Pry is probing into the affairs of the Bank of England.
