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The man in a fancy waistcoat on the right says, "It's a knack I got Mr O'Tool when I'm a little groggy of abusing the Irish.", to which the man on the left (Mr O'Toole) replies "Is that all? Well honey now, when I'm groggy I take to horsewhiping any one that abuses the Irish, and that's a knack I've got." On the back wall, notices advertising "Irish whiskey" and "Soups", and a framed painting of a fox hunting meet

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 20.5 x 17.2 cm

Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

Burdett was a politician who gave money freely in support of the reform movement. 'His favourite recreation was fox-hunting. As he grew in years he presented a perfect type of the English country gentleman; and the generous disposition of his youth remained with him to old age' (DNB)

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 27.2 x 38.1 cm

Sir Francis Burdett riding to the right on horseback. Lithograph, 1838.

Bears dialogue: 'Cottager. "Oh, I am so glad you are come. Mrs. Harker has had such a very bad night!" Doctor. "A bad night, eh? Ha, well, keep her quiet, - and mind she gets some nice sleep this afternoon!" (Rides off to the meet with a clear conscience.)

1 print : wood engraving ; border 13.6 x 18.1 cm

A doctor passing by the cottage of a needy patient, shouting reassurance on his way to hunt. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.

Right to left: an older man advising a younger one to get first a house, then a wife, then a child, instead of in the reverse order; two fox-hunters comparing hunting in England and France; an undertaker thanking an unappreciative doctor for his custom; and a snob asking a beggar called Russell if he is related to the dukes of Bedford

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 10.8 x 48.2 cm

Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.

Advetising card issued by H. F. Campbell, promoting Continental Ointment (sold by The L. D. Mix Oil & Naphtha Company), used for skin contusions and other topical ailments. Showing an illustration of three men on horses going fox hunting.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 24

Use Continental Ointment : Continental Ointment for man and beast.

A gathering of huntsmen in a valley. Coloured lithograph.

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Thoughts on hunting. In a series of familiar letters to a friend.

The shotley Bridge fox chace; a descriptive didactic poem. Interspersed with allusions and reflections, on the morals of the times. By Thomas Thorburn.

Calendar blotter for November and December 1934 issued by Fairchild Brothers & Foster and their UK agents, Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. advertising Zymine' peptonising tubes, "the first peptonising powder made ... for the preparation of peptonised milk, and other foods for the sick." This would have been one of a series of blotters sent out to members of the medical profession every 2 months. The blotters have a small line illustration above the calendar grid of something relating to that time of year or something in a themed series. In this case 2 men on horseback in a hilly country setting with a pack of hounds ready for a hunt.

Drug advertising ephemera. Box 37.

'Zymine' peptonising tubes... / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.

See Wellcome Library catalogue no. 13794i

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Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

Sir Francis Burdett riding to the right on horseback. Lithograph, 1838.

A doctor passing by the cottage of a needy patient, shouting reassurance on his way to hunt. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.

Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.

Use Continental Ointment : Continental Ointment for man and beast.

A gathering of huntsmen in a valley. Coloured lithograph.

Thoughts on hunting. In a series of familiar letters to a friend.

The shotley Bridge fox chace; a descriptive didactic poem. Interspersed with allusions and reflections, on the morals of the times. By Thomas Thorburn.

'Zymine' peptonising tubes... / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.

A doctor changing into hunting clothes in his carriage, on his way to a hunt meeting. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.

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Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

Sir Francis Burdett riding to the right on horseback. Lithograph, 1838.

A doctor passing by the cottage of a needy patient, shouting reassurance on his way to hunt. Wood engraving by A.C. Corbould, 1885.

Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.

Use Continental Ointment : Continental Ointment for man and beast.

A gathering of huntsmen in a valley. Coloured lithograph.

Thoughts on hunting. In a series of familiar letters to a friend.

The shotley Bridge fox chace; a descriptive didactic poem. Interspersed with allusions and reflections, on the morals of the times. By Thomas Thorburn.

'Zymine' peptonising tubes... / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.

A doctor changing into hunting clothes in his carriage, on his way to a hunt meeting. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.

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