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Cage birds

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  • A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).
  • Retail price list : September 19, 1921 / Spratts Patent Limited.
  • Alexandra Hospital, East Clandon: a ward in which some children are in bed while others stand around a piano being played by a nurse. Photograph, 1913(?).
  • Retail price list : September 19, 1921 / Spratts Patent Limited.
  • Retail price list : September 19, 1921 / Spratts Patent Limited.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A girl holding a pet bird and a schoolbook. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 1771, after J.E. Schenau.

    Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806. | Date: 1771 | Reference: 676596i
    • Pictures

    An old man, and a boy with a bird. Etching by A. Pond, ca. 1736, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

    Guercino, 1591-1666. | Date: 1736 | Reference: 3015402i
    • Pictures
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    Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a dining room (?). Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].

    London & County Photographic Co. | Date: [1893?] | Reference: 43463i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Retail price list : September 19, 1921 / Spratts Patent Limited.

    Spratt's Patent Ltd. | Date: 1921
    • Pictures

    A young woman holding a dead bird. Colour drawing, 18--.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 673176i
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