An elderly antiquarian guides a fashionably dressed young lady and gentleman through a natural history museum, unaware that the gentleman is passing a letter to the lady. In and around the cases are exotic animals, insects, reptiles, and a mummy
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Sept. 20, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
A man sits in front of a fireplace, his left hand on his forehead as if in pain. With his right hand he extends a pair of tongs into the fire, at the end of which is a document entitled "For the Times". On the floor behind him is a large pile of simil...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published July 21, 1832, by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Printed by Maguire, Lemercier & Co., 24, Leicester Sq.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868. and Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
"Five ugly and elderly members of the Royal Society are seated in arm-chairs at a rectangular dinner-table. A footman (right) is about to place on the table a dish containing an alligator. The head of a strange horned beast is the chief dish on the ta...
