Forms part of an album of 59 graphite and chalk drawings by H.K. Browne; including 21 drawings for illustrations executed for the Household edition of Pickwick papers, as well as sketches, studies, and designs for the periodical Judy (1986.1769:1-59).
Drawing shows three dustmen wearing traditional dustmen's hats and equipped with pails, baskets, a bell, and a shovel; one of the three, at left, is perched on the back of a horse drawn dust cart with a basket on his shoulder, which he prepares to unload in the back of the cart; in front of the cart, the two other dustmen stand on either side of a woman with two children.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.