A woman in fine clothes and a large bonnet is invited by a young man to go on a river trip to Richmond-on-Thames. Coloured etching.

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A woman in fine clothes and a large bonnet is invited by a young man to go on a river trip to Richmond-on-Thames. Coloured etching. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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She misunderstands him, confusing a steamer as a boat with a steamer as a cooker of foods (the letter sense justified by a citation in the Oxford English dictionary from 1814 : "Stew-pans, hot dressers, steamers, digesters")

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 16.4 x 11 cm.

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I say we'r all agoing to Richmond on the steamer. Lawd Sam aint you afeared of being blowed up? Scenes in London No. 43.

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Wellcome Collection 35877i

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By Robert Seymour?

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