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Bachelors

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  • Mr. Lambkin behaving in a drunken and disorderly manner resulting in being restrained and arrested by a policeman. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • An unmarried man sits alone smoking a pipe by the fire and pondering the pros and cons of marriage. Colour process print after Rutherford, 191-.
  • Mr. Lambkin trying to find a new cure for his illness; riding a horse in wet clothes. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Mr. Lambkin and friends in court before a magistrate for being drunken and disorderly. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Mr. Lambkin in an old bachelors' club, completely recovered from his illness and contemplating the errors of his ways. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
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Catalogue

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    Bachelors of a different sort : queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain / John Potvin.

    Potvin, John | Date: 2014
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    Mr. Lambkin trying to find a new cure for his illness; riding a horse in wet clothes. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Reference: 12139i
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    Mr. Lambkin and friends in court before a magistrate for being drunken and disorderly. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Reference: 12138i
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    • Online

    Mr. Lambkin behaving in a drunken and disorderly manner resulting in being restrained and arrested by a policeman. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Reference: 12137i
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    Mr. Lambkin in bed undergoing hydrotherapy with a follower of V. Priessnitz. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Reference: 12114i
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