Cultural caricature, Robert Seymour, 1835 / 1878.

"You shall have the paper directly, Sir, but really the debates are so very interesting.", "Oh pray don't hurry Sir, it's only the scientific notices I care about", caricature by Robert Seymour, published in Seymour's Humorous Sketches by Henry Bohn, 1878. First published as a lithograph in about 1836, this is a later steel engraved version, with recent hand colour. Ref D869