Satire on modern technology, including depictions of steam used for war, amputations, underground travel, and beauty treatments. Also depicted is air travel by way of birds harnessed together, and the pseudoscience of phrenology used to assess a child...
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Title etched above images, at top of plate.
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Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
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Steam, Machinery, Cannons, Warships, Birds, Phrenology, Children, Travel, and Amputees
"A little boy (looking more like a girl) in a frock and cross-gartered shoes, with short, untidy hair, stands agressively, one foot raised to kick, fists clenched. At his feet are a battledore and shuttlecock and a doll; above his head hangs a canary ...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. May 21st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
"A little boy (looking more like a girl) in a frock and cross-gartered shoes, with short, untidy hair, stands agressively, one foot raised to kick, fists clenched. At his feet are a battledore and shuttlecock and a doll; above his head hangs a canary ...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 21st, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, N. 111 Cheapside
Heading to verses printed in two columns. After the title: 'An Original Tale, recited by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent-Garden Theatre'. A farmer in top-boots stands at the head of his dinner-table, about to hurl a large cheese; other cheeses fly about the ro...
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Title from item.
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Published 1st February 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A woman sits at a table in front of a window, a patterned rug beneath them. She looks at a kitten walking towards her on the table and points with her left hand to a bird raised away from the table in her right hand. The two chairs and windows are cov...
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Title from item.
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Published Feby. 4th 1788 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
