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  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • World War One: three French prisoners of war slouching in a prison yard. Colour halftone after a crayon drawing by L. Raemaekers.
  • An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.