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A butcher swinging a string of sausages from a knife rides on the back of a large black boar. Etching, 1774.

Bought of F. Grove, butcher : familes supplied, South Down, Scotch, Dartmoor and Welsh mutton, Highland Scot & Aberdeen beef of best quality : home killed meat.

An Indian butcher and wife offering betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Dr. to H. F. Richards : Poulterer, game, butter & egg dealer & provision merchant : terms monthly.

Jacob Powell, weighing nearly forty stone. Pen and ink drawing.

Bot. of E. & A. Purser , purveyors of English meat, fish, game, poultry & provision stores : 127, & 129, High Street, Slough : Windsor & Maidenhead : proprietors of dairies ... / E. & A. Purser.

Easter, 1899 : F. Monk begs to announce that he is providing for Easter consumption several very choice consignments of English lamb direct from the farms at Wallingford, Chichester and Bridewater / F. Monk, London Road, Kingston-on-Thames.

A butcher wielding an axe to slaughter a bull. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Jacob Powell, who died weighing almost 40 stone. Line engraving by A. Walker.

A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772.

William Pitt the younger leads a group of ministers out of the Treasury as the Opposition in the guise of the rabble are held back by a grenadier sentry holding a bayonet. Etching by J. Gillray.

A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.

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Jacob Powell, who died weighing almost 40 stone. Line engraving by A. Walker.

William Pitt the younger leads a group of ministers out of the Treasury as the Opposition in the guise of the rabble are held back by a grenadier sentry holding a bayonet. Etching by J. Gillray.

A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.

Bought of F. Grove, butcher : familes supplied, South Down, Scotch, Dartmoor and Welsh mutton, Highland Scot & Aberdeen beef of best quality : home killed meat.

Bot. of E. & A. Purser , purveyors of English meat, fish, game, poultry & provision stores : 127, & 129, High Street, Slough : Windsor & Maidenhead : proprietors of dairies ... / E. & A. Purser.