"A grotesquely dilapidated post-chaise stands outside a ramshackle inn (r.); the driver lashes the horses cruelly, a boy lifts a pitch-fork to strike, but the wretched animals refuse to move. A barefooted slattern approaches from the r. with a huge re...
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Publish'd. April 8th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, sayi...
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Publish'd May 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The pair, seated in a gig, drive (r. to left.) along a country road, preceded by a mongrel dog carrying a large bone. The man drives the miserable hack with the air of an expert, flicking a heavy lash over the animal's neck. He is smartly dressed wit...
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Cockney and his wife going to Wycombe
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Publish'd June 10th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"A pretty young woman and a fashionably dressed man sing together seated on upright chairs. She (r.) plays the harp, her head thrown back to look over her shoulder at the music-book which he holds open: 'Duets de l'Amour'. On a round table which suppo...
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Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"The couple torment each other in the breakfast-room. A round table is drawn close to a blazing fire. The lady has left her seat to thump on the piano (left), singing loudly, with her back to her husband, but turning her eyes towards him. He sits in t...
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Publish'd October 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Two skaters strike attitudes in the foreground. One (l.), with hands on hips, describes a curve on the outside edge of the left. foot, the r. foot being held out stiffly. He looks aggressively towards the other, a younger man who bends his knees, arm...
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Elements of skateing : Attitude! Attitude is every thing! and Elements of skating : Attitude! Attitude is every thing!
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Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. Jamess [sic]
"One man falls violently, arms and legs in the air; he brings the ferrule of his stick heavily down on the eye of a neighbour who has just landed on his posterior, his legs and arms extended. In the background three other skaters have fallen, and lie ...
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Fundamental error in the art of skating, Elements of skateing : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting, and Elements of skating : a fundamental error in the art of skaiting
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Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"An elderly man, holding his umbrella in front of him to form a sail, cannonades into another skater, who falls, the apex of the umbrella entering his mouth, while his foot strikes the stomach of the aggressor. The ice cracks beneath them. The latter ...
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Elements of skateing : the consequence of going before the wind and Elements of skating : the consequence of going before the wind
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Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A man who is falling through the ice clutches desperately at the leg of a passing skater so as to drag him towards the hole he has made. From the edge of the ice (r.) projects a post with a notice-board: 'Humane Society - Whereas this Pond is very de...
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Elements of skateing : making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency! and Elements of skating : making the most of a passing-friend in a case of emergency!
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Publishd. November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"Young women, gaily dressed, ride donkeys along a rough road at the edge of a cliff indicated by a railing and the sea below. There are three groups inscribed respectively 'Kicking-Sett', 'Active-Sett', and 'Passive Sett'. On the extreme left. one don...
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Publish'd Jany. 24th, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
