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Puns (Visual works)

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  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.
  • A man playing the violin with the instrument representing his face. Etching attributed to Cruikshank.
  • A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).
  • A park keeper is complaining to a young woman about "pansies" (homosexuals). Colour process print, 195-, after D. McGill, 193-.
  • A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.
  • A park keeper is complaining to a young woman about "pansies" (homosexuals). Colour process print, 195-, after D. McGill, 193-.
  • A woman with a very elaborate hair style and a rump extended with cork armatures is being pursued by winged uncorked bottles. Etching, 1777.
  • A man is drawing a cart along the road as other people perform other activities also called drawing. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech.
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    A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.

    Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 29813i
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    A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.

    Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851. | Date: 1824 | Reference: 31590i
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    A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech.

    Leech, John, 1817-1864. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 29573i
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    Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.

    S.L., active 1772. | Date: [1 Jan. 1772] | Reference: 584784i
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    A man is drawing a cart along the road as other people perform other activities also called drawing. Etching by George Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: August 1st 1826 | Reference: 36143i
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