Episode in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle": a man with a barber's bowl beneath his chin is about to be clubbed by a knight in armour; a man stands immediately behind him, to the left is a seated couple, to the right a man who has been knocked down, and in the foreground the audience looks on. Etching by C. Grignion after M. Rooker.

An episode in The maid's tragedy: Evadne kills the king in his bed in revenge for his having raped her. Etching by E. Kirkall after F. Boitard.

Buildings and members of Pembroke College, Oxford. Lithograph by Beynon & Company.

Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

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