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Storytellers

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  • Five elderly people sit at a table drinking port as one man tells a story. Etching, c. 1795.
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • An old man sits by a fire in a crofter's cottage, about to tell his story to the family that lives there. Engraving by J. Hooper after H. Thomson.
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    An old man sits by a fire in a crofter's cottage, about to tell his story to the family that lives there. Engraving by J. Hooper after H. Thomson.

    | Reference: 33140i
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    Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1 July 1825 | Reference: 26924i
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    To windward of the land : the occult world of Alexander Charles / Jane C. Beck.

    Beck, Jane C., 1941- | Date: [1979], ©1979
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    Five elderly people sit at a table drinking port as one man tells a story. Etching, c. 1795.

    | Date: 9 November 1795 | Reference: 26914i
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