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Cartoons (Commentary)

Images

  • A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • Here he comes, Boys! / Vicky.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].

    | Date: date of publication not identified
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.

    | Date: February 8, 1862 | Reference: 36772i
    • Pictures

    Untitled.

    Shrigley, David | Date: [2020] | Reference: 3272403i
    Part of: Wellcome Collection On Happiness Commision.
    • Books

    57 reasons not to do drugs / M.M. Kirsch ; illustrated by Yvonne M. Gaudet.

    Kirsch, M. M., 1954- | Date: [1987]
    • Books

    Elogio della medicina di Jacovitti : breve storia di un capolavoro sconosciuto / Vittorio Sgarbi ; testi di Gian Luigi Veronesi.

    Sgarbi, Vittorio. | Date: 2001
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