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Swallows

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  • Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : sand martin.
  • Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : sand martin.
  • A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.
  • Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
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    Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 29296i
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    Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : sand martin.

    | Date: 1978
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    A spider, annoyed by a swallow which was catching all the flies, plans to catch the swallow in its web, but is shown to be deluded when the swallow carries off both the spider and the web; illustration of a fable. Etching by D. Stoop, 1665.

    Stoop, Dirck, approximately 1618-1686. | Date: [1665] | Reference: 39719i
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