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Concept

Storytelling

Images

  • 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 sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.
  • An old woman is telling some children a story which they appear to be disturbed by. Engraving by H.C. Shenton after T. Stothard.
  • A man sits at a table on a platform reciting from a book, while three women and a man stand nearby. Coloured drawing (?).
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Venus and Adonis. Mezzotint after B. West, 1767.

    West, Benjamin, 1738-1820. | Date: [between 1770 and 1779?] | Reference: 2969684i
    • Books

    Traditional stories and their meanings / by Derek Brewer.

    Brewer, Derek, 1923-2008 | Date: 1983
    • Books

    Storytelling and the sciences of mind / David Herman.

    Herman, David, 1962- | Date: [2013]
    • Pictures

    An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.

    Sheringham, John, Lieutenant. | Date: 1818 | Reference: 24862i
    • Books
    • Online

    Telling stories : why narrative matters in public engagement with science : Wellcome Trust International Engagement Workshop, 2009, Bengaluru, India, 7-10 December 2009.

    Wellcome Trust (London, England). International Engagement Workshop 2009 : Bengalaru, India) | Date: [2009]
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