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[A discharge of filth] – Historic Print

[A discharge of filth] — historic drawing
[A discharge of filth]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The title, *A discharge of filth*, is blunt, and the record does not name the people or place shown, so the drawing has to be read on its own terms. It is a pencil drawing marked as plate 3, which suggests it belonged to a numbered series, and the notes date it around 1830. Satirical drawings from that period often used crude subjects and exaggerated figures to mock politics, manners, or public life, so the title probably signals that tone. A single plate makes the most sense alongside its companions in the series.

Medium1 drawing : pencil.
Genreplate 3
Notes[1830?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 934 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173577

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