An anthropomorphical figure consisting of a bird's body and a human head is sitting on a branch of a tree next to a dangling noose. Coloured lithograph.

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An anthropomorphical figure consisting of a bird's body and a human head is sitting on a branch of a tree next to a dangling noose. Coloured lithograph. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The image represents a play on words as the bird wears an eyepatch, is sitting next to a gallow's noose and carries a human face as a caricature of a convicted criminal

Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : L. Rosenthal

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 14 x 13.5 cm

Lettering

Gallows bird

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39956i

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