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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/25/5 |
| Former Reference | D5459/2/101 |
| Title | Symptoms of the Shop : Plate 3 |
| Date | 1 Mar 1801 |
| Description | The former owner of a curiosity shop, in conversation with another man. The former shop owner, on the left, is wearing court dress, including a large bag-wig and has a dress-sword. He is leaning forward slightly and says to his companion: "I beg Sir you will not touch upon curiosities - you must now Sir - before they made a knight of me, I kept a shop full of curiosities - oh it would have done your heart good to see me behind my counter, shewing my pickled crocodiles - but now, I look with my sword sticking out behind exactly like a blue bottle fly with a pin stuck in my tail!!"
His companion, wearing a round hat and hessian boots, replies: "You are the very thing Sir for a court dress - you are absolutely a curiosity."
Available on CD 162. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Physical Description | Hand-coloured print. Size 262 x 212 mm. Portrait. |
| Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Related Material | See D5459/2/24 for imprint |
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