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Cartoon - Swallowing a yarnA little blackbird fails to consume a length of twine: " I can t swallow that yarn." Date: circa 1915
A Very Fishy Story, by Louis WainA Very Fishy Story, comical fish cartoon drawn by Louis Wain Date: 1892
A man who never stops to attract a crowd in the streets of London, with his little table on which he feasts upon small objects. Swallowing pebbles, nails, broken glass and similar delicacies
Belted Kingfisher, by John James Audubon (1785-1851). A colour plate in The Birds of America: From Original Drawings. Date: 1827-1838
Cartoon, A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, or, John Bull swamped in the Flood of new Taxes; Cormorants fishing in the Stream, by James Gillray
Illustration, A Song of the English, The SeaIllustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)
WW2 Poster -- Tablet dayTablet day! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper. Medical related poster for British soldiers on active service in Italy
Nursery Rhymes -- A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. A white cat catches Uncle Rat (above), and a white goose catches the Frog (below). Date: early 20th century
Nursery Rhymes -- daffodil lady, giant on sea shoreNursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a lady dressed as a daffodil is pulled along by three white mice. Below -- an ugly giant stands on the sea shore
The great Victorina Troupe originators and presenters of the most marvelous sword swallowing act on earth. Date 19 -
Lear / Nonsense / SouthThere was an Old Man of the South, who had an immederate mouth; But in swallowing a dish, that was quite full of fish, he was choked, that Old Man of the South
German alchemist at workAn allegorical portrait of a German alchemist at work, with various symbolic items -- Sun and Moon, Flowers and Furnace, and a lion swallowing a serpent