Dirty Father Thames stands in the river water hooking detritus and rubbish that's floating there: old shoes and boots, dead fish, bottles, dead mice and rats... The cartoon is accompanied by a poem which begins, "Filthy river, filthy river, Foul from London to the Nore, What art thou but one vast gutter, One tremendous common shore" Date: 1848
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Image Number: 4220-21934031Rights ManagedCredit Line:Mary Evans Picture Library/Pantheon/SuperStockCollection:Mary Evans Picture Library Model Release:NoProperty Release:NoResolution:6281×4989
