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Charles West Cope. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.

A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.

A male nude model being drawn by the life class at the Royal Academy in London. Etching by C.W. Cope, 1865.

Thomas Guy meeting with others to discuss his hospital, a maidservant brings food and drink. Photogravure after C. W. Cope, 1871.

Connocht Moran plays the lute to the daughter of an Ó Conchobhair King and urges her to elope with him. Etching by Charles West Cope, 1844.

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Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890

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A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.

A male nude model being drawn by the life class at the Royal Academy in London. Etching by C.W. Cope, 1865.

Connocht Moran plays the lute to the daughter of an Ó Conchobhair King and urges her to elope with him. Etching by Charles West Cope, 1844.

Thomas Guy meeting with others to discuss his hospital, a maidservant brings food and drink. Photogravure after C. W. Cope, 1871.