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  • A party with music and actors entertaining the company. Oil painting attributed to Hendrick Goovaerts, ca. 1710.
  • Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.
  • Six figures passing the time with various entertainments. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, 1771, after G.M. Kraus.
  • Crowds of people gathered at an entertainment at Basford, Staffordshire, including music and a balloon. Coloured wood engraving, 1859.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): patients, mostly children, entertaining some seated adults in a small wooden hall. Photograph.
  • A physician prescribing entertainment as a cure for a young woman's nervous illness. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-E. Jacque.
  • A Christmas entertainment, presented in sign language for the deaf and dumb, at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • Almshouses in St. John's Wood Marylebone. Poster advertising an entertainment to be given to raise funds on 30th October, 1837.
  • Apparitions; or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, developed. Being a collection of entertaining stories, founded on fact ... / [Joseph Taylor].
  • Interior of Iwakame House, Yokohama Minatosaki licensed pleasure district: Western visitors are shown being entertained in a back room. Colour woodcut by Yoshikazu, 1860.
  • The vegetarian : serio-comico-semi sentimental song / written and composed by Henry Walker ; sung by Mr. Howard Paul in the entertainment "Patchwork.".
  • [Newspaper cutting advertising an entertainment organised by Albert Smith of views of a journey to Mont Blanc (painted by William Beverley) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • [Newspaper cutting advertising an entertainment organised by Albert Smith of views of a journey to Mont Blanc (painted by William Beverley) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • Two ladies, seated, with a child between them, being entertained by a magician who performs tricks with cups and balls. Etching by R. Rhodon after P. Mercier, 1882.
  • Calcutta, India: King George V and Queen Mary (then the Prince and Princess of Wales), watching entertainment given in their honour at the pandal (function hall). Photograph, 1906.
  • Inside the fox's abode, the old fox is stuffing a hare's head into a bag while the female fox is entertaining the young. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • A man sits drinking at a table and is entertained by a fiddler as a woman holds his music open. Etching by D. Deuchar, 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.
  • [Illustrated ticket to an entertainment of Henry Smith, vocalist, and the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Dated May 1855].
  • A Chinese puppeteer standing on a stool, with a miniature stage balanced above him, body screened, except for feet, entertaining a boy in the street. Coloured stipple engraving by Dadley after Pu-Qua.
  • [Illustrated ticket to an entertainment of Henry Smith, vocalist, and the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Dated May 1855].
  • A man is horrified at the high cost of a meal in a tavern while the two women whom he has entertained enjoy his discomfort. Engraving by S. Sangster, 1851, after A.L. Egg.
  • 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.
  • Calcutta, India: King George V and Queen Mary (then the Prince and Princess of Wales), (seated in the background), with musicians and spectators, watching entertainment given in their honour at the pandal (function hall). Photograph, 1906.
  • Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.
  • On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre, Comedy is hanged, Tragedy is stabbed, and Sheridan the playwright lies dead drunk as the theatre is given over to animal entertainments. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • Hospital of Our Lady. Paul's work, rebuilt in 1619, on the site of an ancient religious foundation. About the year 1479. Thomas Spence, Bishop of Aberdeen, founded a hospital there, for the reception and entertainment of twelve poor men.