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Collection: Striking Impressions

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Coloured print. A cruel looking bald man, Tom Nero, is held by a crowd carrying pitchforks. A murdered woman lies on the ground with a bundle of stolen items. Members of the crowd hold up a knife and letter from the murdered woman which incriminate Nero.

Engraving of a tall, slender man with a wig, crossed eyes and an overbite who sits grinning in a chair, holding a stick which has a cap labelled LIBERTY on top of it. He wears a coat with large cuffs and sits with quill and ink next to news sheets titled North Briton number 17 and 45.

Engraving of a man in profile, wearing laurels. He has a large eye and a beak-like nose. In the background is a classical column.

Four men with large bellies, large eyes and protruding lower lips carry full sacks into an office and say Mr Mayor, we have brought great quantities of corn to market and no body will buy, we request your advice what to do with it. The mayor, a smug looking figure in a red and gold coat, replies Do with it? why, as you have done, Keep it!! His assistant holds up a paper saying Ordered the price of bread to be lowered one half tomorrow. Out the window can be seen a cart piled with sacks labelled To go back no purchasers and a labourer saying Dang it, if I did not think it would come to this at last.

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Engraving of two large men, one with a fox head who sits on Pandoras Box, sharing a bowl of soup. One says My dear Reynard you are welcome to a spoonful - Be cautious! a little of my broth goes a great way. Tis damned high seasoned. Look at my cook he and my friend... hum! with the consent of the... hum, did both... hum the Nation. The fox headed man says Blow hot! Blow cold! He he he! With the self same breath my Lord. Give me a sup of your soup. I have often cooled your porridge my lord! Hay? He he he! Meanwhile, a devil stokes the fire beneath a pot of soup and says God save great George our king, god bless our noble king, god damn the broth it will never boil.

Engraving. Three men look at a distraught fourth man as a demon carrying a map of America farts and flies away. The first man, who is plump and has a bucket shaped hat, says De donder take you monsieur, I think I have paid the piper. The second is handsome and has a rapier and a feather in his broad brimmed hat. He taps on the third mans shoulder and says See Gibraltar! See Don Langara! by S Anthony you have made me the Laughing Stock of Europe. The third man is absurdly thin with an exaggerated long pointy face. He offers the fourth snuff and says Ah ah me lord Angla, volez vous une pince de snuff, for de diable will not give you back de Amerique. The fourth man, large and tired, looks up at the devil and stands beside a broken anchor. He holds his hands up in despair and says Tis lost! Irrecoverably lost! From between the demons buttocks come the words Poor John Bull! Ha ha ha!

Coloured print. A pistol duel between a giant goose with a man's head and a man carrying a giant pair of shears. They shoot each other in the leg. The goose says What must I be out! and a tailor get in to Parliament! You're a liar! I never said that I would sit as chairman on your shop board! His opponent says A liar! Sir I'm a Taylor and a gentleman! And I must have satisfaction! Papers litter the ground saying Sir Francis Gooses letter to the electors at the Crown and Anchor, Mr Paul's advertisements, Dangers of indulging political envy, Cobbetts character or Paul the Taylor May 2nd 1807, Westminster election Paul. The print is captioned Patriots deciding a point of honour! or an exact representation of the celebrated rencontre which took place at Combe Wood on May 2nd 1807 between little Paul the Taylor and Sir Francis Goose.

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Pages from a book depicting a mans face with curly hair and a beard next to a lions face, and a man with a pointed face next to a similar looking greyhound like dog.

Page from a book with woodcut prints of faces. The faces all have exaggerated wrinkles on their brows. A man with wrinkles in the shape of broken lines and hooks is captioned These lines denote a murderer, and one that shall suffer a violent death. A woman with gently wavering wrinkles is captioned Such lines denote a favourable, good, and gentle fortune.

Page from a book with woodcut prints of faces. The faces all have exaggerated wrinkles on their brows. A man with straight wrinkles is captioned 'These lines are the character of a simple and honest person'. A man with many broken and wavy wrinkles is captioned 'These lines are emblems of unconstant fortune, now rich and then poor.' A man with zigzagging, wave-like wrinkles is captioned 'Such lines predict drowning, or great perils by water.'

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