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  • A man sits at a table on a platform reciting from a book, while three women and a man stand nearby. Coloured drawing (?).
  • An old woman is telling some children a story which they appear to be disturbed by. Engraving by H.C. Shenton after T. Stothard.
  • An old man sits by a fire in a crofter's cottage, about to tell his story to the family that lives there. Engraving by J. Hooper after H. Thomson.
  • Five elderly people sit at a table drinking port as one man tells a story. Etching, c. 1795.
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.
  • Two Malay men and a woman sit and recline on the floor smoking opium. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Two Malay men and a woman sit and recline on the floor smoking opium. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.