Eccentric Excursions or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales. A Voluntary Victim to Patriotism !!.

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Isaac Cruikshank the Elder after George Moutard Woodward Eccentric Excursions or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales. A Voluntary Victim to Patriotism !!. London, Allen & West 1796-7 Etching Original hand-colouring 265x210mm

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Caricatures taken on Woodward’s extensive tour through England and Wales.

A grumpy, eccentric apothecary, sits in his parlour, clutching a pile of bills, with his windows bricked up. A Gloucester apothecary’s attempt to avoid the ‘Window Tax’.