How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed Product:Fine art poster Self Portrait as the Apostle

Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul

Peter Noone

August 1937

omnibuses and a cart loaded with barrels

'The Blackwall Railway Terminus and Brunswick Pier'

How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed Product:Fine art poster Self Portrait as the Apostle'How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed', 1858. A British workman in overalls and boots holds a large brush in one hand, and a handkerchief to his nose with the other. He has a bucket of lime at his feet which he is using to clean Father Thames who, with an old, weedy, kettle impaled on his staff, rests on an outlet pipe which gushes its untreated sewage into the river. This cartoon relates to Disraeli's Bill to purify the Thames, in which he