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A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29813i- Pictures
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A man is drawing a cart along the road as other people perform other activities also called drawing. Etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: August 1st 1826Reference: 36143i- Pictures
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A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).
Date: 1830-1839Reference: 35953i- Pictures
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A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851.Date: 1824Reference: 31590i- Pictures
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A man playing the violin with the instrument representing his face. Etching attributed to Cruikshank.
Date: 1818Reference: 34155i