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  • A young man sings and turns the pages of the music as a girl plays the piano. Colour wood engraving (?) after George Cruikshank.
  • Oliver Twist, holding a bowl and a spoon, asks for more food, while other children and a woman look surprised. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Four elderly ladies sitting around a table gossiping; another woman listens from behind a curtain and looks rather shocked. Etching by George Cruikshank after EHL.
  • A women sits dejectedly on the end of the bed as one man threatens to hit the other with a riding crop. Etching after George Cruikshank.
  • A bailiff (Mr Fixem, centre) calls on an affluent man (left) to enforce payment of a debt, assisted by his assistant (Bung, right). Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a fraudulent manipulation of the Stock Exchange, playing dice while in the stocks. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1814.
  • A dancing lesson: two boys stand laughing in the background as the teacher shows the girl how to hold her dress for the dance. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A dancing class: a girl curtsies as a young man bows to her, the teacher plays the violin and a girl stands in a box. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • The former Monmouth Street in London: women and children playing and men sitting and standing while smoking pipes, with items for sale hanging outside shops. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Two men are standing behind the counter of a pawnbroker's shop in London, examining some articles of clothing which have been brought in to pawn. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1836.
  • Ascending and descending: (above) people in a balloon; (below) people seated in a rotunda around a pool and in danger of falling into the water. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
  • Too many people are trying to get into a drawing room at Buckingham Palace, consequently people are being crushed and ladies' dresses are being trodden on. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
  • A man is falling down the stairs of the pulpit watched by the congregation in the church, as he falls he pulls the robe of the priest. Etching after George Cruikshank.
  • A dancing lesson: a boy in a sailor suit dances the hornpipe as the teacher plays the violin; the girl is standing with a stretcher across her back. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A young English woman returning from Paris with her French governesss is not recognized by her uncle, aunt and sister owing to her French speech and clothes. Etching by George Cruikshank after EHL.
  • 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.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Bartholomew fair in London represented as a place where crowds of people watch entertainments inspired by the devil, and indulge in drunkenness and fighting; demons incite them to crime. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1832.
  • Crowds of people are thronging the streets of Westminster, with traders hawking their wares and others arguing, and so much noise and bustle the horse and carriage is nearly overturned. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Actors on stage performing an ice-skating scene fall through a hole in the ice and through the floor of the theatre into a casino on the storey below them. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1844.
  • A phrenologist in his consulting room, examining the head of a young man and dictating the results to his assistant while a woman looks on. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1826, after H.T.D.B.
  • King George IV and entourage laden with provisions, about to embark from Brighton in the Royal Yacht; representing the extravagant monarch's distressed retreat from England at the time of the Queen's trial. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1820.
  • Men and women in smart city clothes are picking their way across a farmyard with chickens and dung; in the background there is a garden much more to their taste with a grotto and statues. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • The election of a parish beadle in England: crowds thronging the entrance to the polling station, including supporters of the rival candidates, Spruggins and Bung, who expect to be elected according to the large number of their dependents. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1836.
  • A noisy tenant and three of his friends, having stayed up singing until the early hours of the morning, go to the house of an elderly neighbour and disturb his sleep to ask him for glass of water and the loan of a shilling for a cab. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Fifteen vignettes relating to child care, domestic medicine, effects of alcohol and eating. Etching by G. Cruikshank after himself.
  • Fifteen vignettes relating to child care, domestic medicine, effects of alcohol and eating. Etching by G. Cruikshank after himself.
  • A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.