Six examples of "the march of intellect". Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1829.

A man with a gun and a bag on his shoulder is holding a black and white rabbit up by its hind legs and showing it to another man in the street, who tells him he is shooting pet rabbits instead of wild ones. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

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