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  • A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.
  • A man attempting to alert a deaf farmer using an ear trumpet as to the plight of his horses and cart. Coloured etching.
  • An elderly woman reading a novel by the fire asks her maid to change her library books, with a preference for romantic fiction. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.
  • A man and a woman taking tea in the garden of a refreshment house: she asks whether he takes suger, he replies in sentimental terms. Etching attributed to R. Seymour.
  • A young man learning to shoot aims a rifle at a pet bird tied to a stile; a companion backs against the wall to get out of the way. Lithograph by R. Seymour.
  • A newspaper editor whose fake correspondence purportedly from the public is flattering, receives a genuine letter which is hostile. Lithograph by R. Seymour.
  • A couple walking through a garden dressed in fine clothes are being watched closely by three other men as the woman looks surprised. Etching (?) by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • A soldier, leaning against the window ledge of a prison window with a large empty flask on the ground, is conversing with a prisoner who is looking through the bars while holding a tankard in his hand. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • Two dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the establishment while the other waits patiently to read it for its scientific announcements. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
  • Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.
  • A cat pawing at goldfish in a bowl. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A poacher is ducked in a pond by a landowner as a punishment for shooting ducks. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834.
  • A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • John Abernethy, caricatured under "Physic", one of six scenes in "the march of intellect". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
  • A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • An English gentleman stands at the open gates of his mansion handing out food to the poor who are gathered around. Etching by R. Seymour.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • Top: Daniel O'Connell as a cock supported by Jewish finance and the Roman Catholic church; below, O'Connell withdrawing from fighting a duel (?). Coloured lithograph by Robert Seymour, 1835.
  • The funeral of Tom Moody, a huntsman: members of the hunt cry "View-halloo" and "Tally-ho!" over his grave. Wood engraving after R. Seymour, 1831.
  • A woman takes a large plum pudding in a cloth bag off a hot stove in a kitchen. Etching by R. Seymour.
  • Poets composing verse under the influence of gases specific to particular genres, analogous to laughing gas. Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
  • Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A tailor fishing on a river bank is cowering away from a man with a large cosh hidden behind his back, who robs him of his hat, coat and boots. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 183-.