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  • The devil's own : scenes from the farce of life, or facts are stubborn thing, exposing a few only of the secret doings of those cursed human vultures called lawyers.
  • An episode from a farce in the theatre: three men and two women engaged in a dispute with one man pointing at the guilty-looking young woman at the front. Etching after W. Hogarth.
  • A prosperous cobbler in Grub Street recommends his shop to a hungry poet. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808.
  • Stanley Cooke in drag as Charley's aunt. Photographic postcard, 19-- (?).
  • Stanley Cooke in drag as Charley's aunt. Photographic postcard, 19-- (?).
  • Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
  • Ernest Rees in character as an old lady.
  • Ernest Rees in character as an old lady.
  • A person in drag called "Aunt Sammy" in an inset portrait.
  • A person in drag called "Aunt Sammy" in an inset portrait.
  • Prisoners of war, some in drag, posing on stage during a crowded scene of "Noblesse oblige"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Prisoners of war, some in drag, posing on stage during a crowded scene of "Noblesse oblige"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Lord Ellenborough, Lord Brougham and the Earl of Mansfield walk together arm in arm. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Two amateur actors, one in drag as 'Charley's Aunt', greet each other in front of painted scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two amateur actors, one in drag as 'Charley's Aunt', greet each other in front of painted scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • Miss Carrie Moore and the Sandow girls performing as "The Dairymaids". Photographic postcard, 1906.
  • Edward Garratt in character as "The little stranger". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Edward Garratt in character as "The little stranger". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • An episode in the play "The dancing barber" by Charles Selby: Narcissus Fitzfrizzle attending to the hair of Alfred Fitzfrolic in the rooms of the latter. Etching by R. Cruikshank.
  • Edward Garratt in character as "The little stranger". Photographic postcard, ca. 1906.
  • Edward Garratt in character as "The little stranger". Photographic postcard, ca. 1906.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • Edward Garratt in character as "The little stranger"; performs a scene. Photographic postcard, ca. 1906.
  • Edward Garratt in character as "The little stranger"; performs a scene. Photographic postcard, ca. 1906.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
  • A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834.
  • A man stands pointing to a large screen, other people are sitting and standing around talking with papers in their hands. Etching.