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A print which depicts a row of scholars linking arms while another scholar speaks from a podium. The scholars are mostly dressed in black gowns with square caps, but some have an absurd appearance. One is depicted as a skeleton with a scythe, another wears all tartan and wields a polearm, and another has a large conical hat with an orb and cross on top.

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Page of a book with an illustration of a human skull. The skull has irregularly shaped and numbered areas marked out on the upper part.

Coloured print. A huge crowd of people carrying flags jostle for attention in an old city street. They people appear to be mostly working class; most are wearing simple work clothes. There are multiple people with disabilities using crutches. Eccentric characters include a Scotsman with a kilt, a devil, someone with a black mask, a man wearing two hats, a large woman with keys and scissors and a child with an oversized top hat. The flags all have words relating to various popular causes and fads or the names of charitable organisations. Piled up in a rubbish heap are works of literature and philosophy by writers such as Shakespeare and Kant.

Coloured print. A huge crowd of people carrying flags jostle for attention in an old city street. They people appear to be mostly working class; most are wearing simple work clothes. There are multiple people with disabilities using crutches. Eccentric characters include a Scotsman with a kilt, a devil, someone with a black mask, a man wearing two hats, a large woman with keys and scissors and a child with an oversized top hat. The flags all have words relating to various popular causes and fads or the names of charitable organisations. Piled up in a rubbish heap are works of literature and philosophy by writers such as Shakespeare and Kant.

Page from a book with a large detailed illustration of a human skull in profile, captioned From a mound on the upper Mississippi.

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Page from a book with example caricature faces demonstrating different shapes. Dotted lines in sharp, straight or curved shapes form the profiles of the faces to which features are added.

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.'

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.

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.

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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