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Busby, Thomas Lord

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Images from the collections

Images by Busby, Thomas Lord

24 images from works
  • A koala bear climbing up a tree. Coloured etching by T. L. Busby after Cruikshanks.
  • A physician holds his nose as he examines the faeces of a patient. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Boniface consulting a doctor about the fullness of his stomach. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby, 1827.
  • A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.
  • A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • A shopkeeper sews up his wife's mouth to stop her from nagging. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.
  • Saint Geneviève interceding for the people of Paris afflicted by ergotism. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1820, after G.-F. Doyen, ca. 1820.
  • A man goes into a barn and opens a rat trap; a rat jumps put and bites him on the chin. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A man in ragged clothes being bitten by a guard dog at the entrance to a town house; representing the sense of touch. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

Works from the collections

25 works

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    A man in ragged clothes being bitten by a guard dog at the entrance to a town house; representing the sense of touch. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

    Busby, Thomas Lord. | Date: [1826?] | Reference: 664604i
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    A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

    Busby, Thomas Lord. | Date: [1826?] | Reference: 726148i
    Part of: Busby's humorous etchings.
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    A French lady from the Ancien Régime sympathizing with a young cleric who has toothache. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

    Busby, Thomas Lord. | Date: [1826?] | Reference: 664647i
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    A gouty man at table with a bon viveur drinking champagne (a pun on "pain"). Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.

    Busby, Thomas Lord. | Date: 1826 | Reference: 665676i
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    The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.

    Whichelo, T., active 1804-1819. | Reference: 38365i

Related topics

Alcohol Drinking
London
Poor
Pain
Gout
House furnishings
Street life
Champagne (Wine)
Household employees
Patients

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