"A man, hat in hand, sits on a cat, which was on a low chair beside the fire. His hostess, a lean and ugly old maid, tugs angrily at a bell-rope; another cat sits on the back of her armchair; a dog barks. An ugly (?) maid-servant of similar type enter...
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Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair
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Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A scene in the Strand, showing Ackermann's shop. In the foreground a man and dog chase a hat, followed by a small butcher's boy (left). Two fat women with baskets on their heads watch from the right. On the pavement is an amused muffin-man, ringing h...
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Chasing your hat (just blown off in a high wind) through a muddy street ...
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Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository Arts, 101 Strand
"A skating scene. A man with legs widely spread poised on the back of his skates, throws up his arms and is about to crash backwards; his hat flies in the air. Beside him (left) a man falls through the ice. A young man pushing a woman in a chair, abso...
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In skaiting, slipping in such a manner that your legs start off in this unaccomodating posture ...
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Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Fox-hunters, tipsily hilarious, at the dinner-table, with bottles, glasses, and punch-bowl. One stands on a chair giving a toast (left), another straddles the backs of two chairs, as if riding; he shouts, flourishing a whip. They wear or wave hunting...
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Dining, and passing the whole evening with a party of foxhunters ...
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Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A woman stands at a wash-tub, turning to scream at her husband who sits in glum silence plying the bellows at a fire emitting smoke which obscures much of the room. An infant in a cradle (right) yells, as does another seated on the ground and brandis...
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Sitting for hours before a smoky chimney, like a hottentot in a craal ...
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Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Two elderly men, and four ladies, two very fat, are scattered over miry ground, some ankle-deep, and without shoes. One man hold his shoe, a young woman retrieves one from the mud. Four scampering pigs, beset by a dog, and two hissing geese, suggest ...
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While you are out in a walking-party, after heavy rains ...
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Pub. Jany. 1, 1806, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Four men and two ladies are seated at dinner, a small child on each side of the host (left). A footman (right) brings in a steaming haunch of venison, followed by a fat maid-servant with a second dish. All the diners register extreme disgust."--Briti...
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Inviting a friend (whom you know to be particularly fond of the dish) to partake of a fine hare ...
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Pub. Jany. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A man enters a room where three men and two ladies stand at a dinner-table, waiting for him, all frankly amused at his appearance. He wears a great-coat many sizes too large and knee-breeches which hang to the ankle. His large obese host laughs, hold...
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Starting for a long ride, on a dinner engagement without a great coat ...
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Pub. Jan. 1, 1807, by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A bedroom scene. A fat woman in night-cap and (short) night-dress drinks from a jug taken from the wash-stand (right); the water flows in a stream over her shoulder to the floor. Within a curtained four-poster (left) an aged man is asleep, his feet p...
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Waking in the middle of the night in a state of raging thirst ...