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Satire

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  • Caricature of Serge Samuel Voronoff (1866 - )
  • Coloured etching: 'The Cholic'; by Cruikshank
  • The country tooth drawer
  • Hogarth, Marriage a la mode: suicide of the countess
  • 'Indigestion', by Cruikshank
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Catalogue

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    Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

    | Date: MDCCXLI
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    Punch, 25 May 1861, 'The Lion of the Season'

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    A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens, with additions, by Mr. Pilon, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes. To which is added, an essay on satire. With forty-seven heads by Nesbit, from designs by Thurston.

    Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784. | Date: 1806
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    'Indigestion', by Cruikshank

    George Cruikshank
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    Engraving: scene from Sterne's Tristram

    William Hogarth
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