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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 21 x 25.6 cm

A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.

As well as being cluttered with potions the room contains an assortment of squabbling pets; on the wall hangs a painting depicting the attempted seduction of Susanna by the elders

1 print : etching ; platemark 35.5 x 24.8 cm

A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

On the wall hangs a picture of an interior with a disreputable-looking woman drinking, a bottle of alcohol is situated below the picture

A woman suffering the pain of cholic ; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.

A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions / By Capt. Marryat.

On the wall hangs a picture of an interior with a disreputable-looking woman drinking

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; border 20.3 x 25.5 cm

A woman suffering the pain of cholic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

1 print : aquatint with engraving, with watercolour ; image 18.7 x 53 cm

Funeral procession of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1821. Coloured aquatint by Alken and Sutherland after a drawing by Captain Frederick Marryat, 1821.

As well as being cluttered with potions the room contains an assortment of squabbling pets; on the wall is a painting depicting the attempted seduction of Susanna by the elders

The composition by Orr is based on that of a caricature by Cruikshank after F. Marryat, "Puzzled which to choose!! or, the King of Tombuctoo offering one of his daughters in marriage to Capt. --" (British Museum, Catalogue of satires, no. 13043), in which the seated central figure (in place of Orr's portrait of Sambon) is the King of Timbuktu and the bowing guest (in place of Orr's portrait of Blanchard) is Captain George Francis Lyon (1795-1832), the leader of an expedition to northern Central Africa (Libya and Sudan, but not Timbuktu). Among other adaptations by Orr, the central woman is piebald in reference to Blanchard's writings on "nègres pies" (partial albinos); the Union Jack on the left is replaced by the French tricolore; and the king's bodyguard holding skulls on spears are replaced by portraits of students and professors of tropical medicine: left to right, Cantlie with the head of Christophers, Manson with the head of possibly Sir William Macgregor, William Orr with the head of R.T. Leiper, and William's cousin James Gilchrist with the head of Ronald Ross. The head identified as Cantlie could be J.W.S. MacFie. The head of a man on the far left standing below the French flag is also a portrait, of an unidentified Frenchman
The depictions of the African women are based on Sarah Baartmann, the "Hottentot Venus"

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

1 print : lithograph ; image 27.1 x 37.2 cm

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A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.

A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

A woman suffering the pain of cholic ; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.

A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions / By Capt. Marryat.

A woman suffering the pain of cholic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

Funeral procession of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1821. Coloured aquatint by Alken and Sutherland after a drawing by Captain Frederick Marryat, 1821.

A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

The body of Napoleon Bonaparte laid out after death, 1821. Lithograph after Captain Marryat.

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A man suffering from headache in the form of devils. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835, after Captain F. Marryat.

A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

A woman suffering the pain of cholic ; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.

A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions / By Capt. Marryat.

A woman suffering the pain of cholic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

Funeral procession of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1821. Coloured aquatint by Alken and Sutherland after a drawing by Captain Frederick Marryat, 1821.

A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

The body of Napoleon Bonaparte laid out after death, 1821. Lithograph after Captain Marryat.

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