The pet oyster
[London] : [Designed & Pub'd by E.S.], [August 1829]
Printed below title: Vot caught the Sovereign, the original to be seen at / Scott's Oyster Rooms / 1 Southampton Street, Strand, London.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
The head and shoulders of Lady Elizabeth Conyngham fill an oyster-shell, on the irregular edge of which profiles are concealed, with numbers referring to the notes below the design. She wears a wide-brimmed dilapidated hat, in which is a tobacco-pipe, to suggest an oyster-woman, but is bejewelled and has a cross hanging from her necklace to indicate she is a "Catholic." A large sovereign fills the space between her bust and the lower part of the shell. The notes to the surrounding profiles are: 1. Geo King, Proprietor of the Oyster Beds. 2. Peter the Dredgerman. / 3. Arthur Cad to the Proprietor [Wellington]. 4. A woman vot open'd the Oyster. / 5. The Watchman to the Sovereign [Cumberland?].