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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
An "Excessively Rare" Thomas Rowlandson Suite Of Caricatures
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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1800, Rudolph Ackermann , the great print publisher, issued Masqueronians , a suite of six hand-colored emblem...
Friday, March 28, 2014
The Man Who Refused To Laugh (And The Book That Laughed At Him)
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by Stephen J. Gertz On March 9, 1748 Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield, wrote to his son: ...
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Monday, February 24, 2014
Death Makes A Lousy Nanny, Etc.
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by Stephen J. Gertz Extra engraved title-page featuring Manny, Moe, and Jack, the last of the Graces. He can run but he can...
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Pigmy Revels: Laughter For The Languid, Fun For The Feeble In A Boxwood Drum
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By Stephen J. Gertz The Lillipution Museum is a panorama, in boxwood drum format, "calculated to create joy for the juvenile, laug...
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Dancing With Death: A Scottish Doctor's Macabre Obsession
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By Nancy Mattoon Frontispiece From: COMBE, William. The English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illu...
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