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Frontispiece to "Etchings of remarkable beggars itinerant traders and other persons of notoriety in London and its environs by John Thomas Smith". Coloured etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 1 December 1815Reference: 43966i- Books
Science and eccentricity : collecting, writing and performing science for early nineteenth-century audiences / Victoria Carroll.
Carroll, Victoria (Victoria Louise)Date: 2008- Pictures
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John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Line engraving by Wilkes.
Reference: 168i- Pictures
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John Brown, walking. Etching by J. Kay, 1819.
Kay, John, 1742-1826.Date: 1819Reference: 194i- Pictures
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A beggar woman selling wares from a basket in her right hand. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1815.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 31 December 1815Reference: 43965i- Books
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Erratics: by a sailor; containing rambles in Norfolk, and elsewhere. In which are interspersed, some observations on the late attempts to revive the Cromwellian observance of the sabbath. Together with some hints on the present pernicious mode of burying the dead; and a remedy proposed.
Larwood, Joshua, -1808.Date: 1800- Pictures
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Two itinerant salesmen selling rattles and rattle boxes. Etching by J.T. Smith, ca. 1815.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: [1815]Reference: 43989i- Books
The psychology of attention / by Th. Ribot.
Ribot, Th. (Théodule), 1839-1916.Date: 1890- Books
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The psychology of attention / by Th. Ribot.
Date: 1890- Pictures
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An itinerant salesman selling pickled cucumbers from a large plate he balances on his head. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 31 December 1815Reference: 43988i- Pictures
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An old man in a top hat sitting in a wooden cart with wheels that resembles a coffin, pointing at a passage in the book he is reading. Etching by J.T. Smith.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Reference: 44046i- Pictures
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John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787.
Livesay, Richard, -1823?Date: Dec:r 10th: 1787Reference: 167i- Pictures
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Two performing street entertainers carrying bells and performing on the street. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 30 May 1816Reference: 43987i- Books
A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change / John Glassie.
Glassie, John.Date: 2012- Pictures
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A man with an artificial arm selling live haddock from a basket he suspends from the hook on his left shoulder. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 31 December 1815Reference: 43985i- Pictures
Two young men sitting in a crammed kitchen, wearing underpants and Star Wars Storm Trooper masks, with non-alcoholic drinks on the table; representing the compatibility of 'cool' adventurousness with abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by Schultze, Walther & Zahel and D. Josefsohn, 199-.
Josefsohn, Daniel.Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 729162i- Books
Dr William Kitchiner : Regency eccentric author of The cook's oracle / by Tom Bridge & Colin Cooper English.
Bridge, Tom (Cook)Date: 1992- Pictures
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Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Soft-ground etching.
Date: 20 July 1772Reference: 254i- Pictures
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An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833.Date: 30 May 1816Reference: 43967i- Pictures
Joseph Ritson, the antiquarian, stands at his desk writing in a large open book within a room filled with folios and vegetables. Aquatint by J. Sayers, 1803.
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.Date: 22 March 1803Reference: 589427i- Books
Histories of the normal and the abnormal : social and cultural histories of norms and normativity / edited by Waltraud Ernst.
Date: 2006- Books
Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England : tales of discord and dissension / David Cressy.
Cressy, David.Date: 2000- Books
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The strange and unaccountable life of the penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A miserable miser, Who died in a Sack, though worth upwards of - 3000. per Ann. with singular anecdotes of the famous Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark usurer, a character well known upon the Stock Exchange: to which is added, a true account of Henry Welby, Who lived invisible Forty-Four Years in Grub Street; with a sketch of the life of the Rev. George Harvest; Called the Absent Man; or, Parson and Player.
Date: [1797]- Books
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The peripatetic; or, sketches of the heart, of nature and society; in a series of politico-sentimental journals, in verse and prose, of the eccentric excursions of Sylvanus Theophrastus; supposed to be written by himself.
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.Date: [1793]- Pictures
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Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
Date: 1 June 1808Reference: 2350i