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1.
Cutting corns [graphic].

Published / Created:
[not before 1818]
Call Number:
Print01006
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An adaptation of Gillray's 'Comfort to the Corns', British Museum Satires No. 9585. The old hag is altered to a rather younger woman, the wide hearth to a neat fireplace. The Gothic chair is replaced by a chair with a high cane back (of Charles II pe...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Knives, Feet, Medical procedures & techniques, Cats, and Fireplaces
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Cutting corns [graphic].

2.
The celebrated & Reverend T. Screech Me Dead attacking the devil in his strong hold [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1818]
Call Number:
818.00.00.63+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a clear parody of Hogarth's "Sleeping Congregation" this scene in a dissenting chapel, shows the preacher leaning from the pulpit, his fist raised as he shouts to the congregation below. A squirrel sits on the canopy of pulpit gnawing on a nut. Wh...
Alternative Title:
Celebrated and Reverend T. Screech Me Dead attacking the devil in his strong hold
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Chapels, Courtship, Dissenters, and Preachers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated & Reverend T. Screech Me Dead attacking the devil in his strong hold [graphic].

4.
A peep into a confessional [graphic].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1818]
Call Number:
818.00.00.39+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elegant young woman in a décolletée dress with bare arms, and a fat elderly monk (right) embrace. Their profiles are concealed behind the pillar supporting the double arch through which the confessional is seen."--British Museum online catalogue...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Monks, Hugging, Confessionals, Columns, and Arches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A peep into a confessional [graphic].