Interior of Birket Foster's House, Without Figures

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Interior of Birket Foster's House, Without Figures
Image Not Available for Interior of Birket Foster's House, Without Figures

Interior of Birket Foster's House, Without Figures

DatePublished 1903
MediumEtching
Dimensions100 × 152 mm. (3 15/16 × 6 in.)
Credit LineBoard of Trustees Fund
Object number1961.137
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Interior of Birket Foster's House with Figures
Interior of Birket Foster's House with Figures
n.d.
Image Not Available for Interior (three figures seated at a table)
Interior (three figures seated at a table)
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Image Not Available for Forest Interior, with Figures on a Road
Forest Interior, with Figures on a Road
n.d.
Image Not Available for Corner of a House with Figures Below
Corner of a House with Figures Below
n.d.
Image Not Available for Village Houses and Studies of Four Figures
Village Houses and Studies of Four Figures
n.d.
Image Not Available for Guard (tsuba) Decorated with a House and Two Figures
Guard (tsuba) Decorated with a House and Two Figures
Late 19th-early 20th century
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The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission.
(Lacépède – Natural History.)
1837
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire bookseller. Ladies and gentlemen, would there be anyone in this pleasant place who'd like to make himself a nice little income, without difficulty and without working?... If there is someone he should stock my primers... You don't have to be a bookseller to be a specialist in this trade, you don't even have to know how to read, quite the contrary!... You only have to pay me a deposit... The bigger the better, as the saying goes.
Robert Macaire bookseller. Ladies and gentlemen, would there be anyone in this pleasant place who'd like to make himself a nice little income, without difficulty and without working?... If there is someone he should stock my primers... You don't have to be a bookseller to be a specialist in this trade, you don't even have to know how to read, quite the contrary!... You only have to pay me a deposit... The bigger the better, as the saying goes.
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Image Not Available for How can you possibly be as thin as this? My dear friend, you should never come to the swimming pool without wearing long cotton pants. - And you, my friend, don't ever show yourself to the world in this costume without having upholstered yourself before.... I can give you the address of my upholsterer.
How can you possibly be as thin as this? My dear friend, you should never come to the swimming pool without wearing long cotton pants. - And you, my friend, don't ever show yourself to the world in this costume without having upholstered yourself before.... I can give you the address of my upholsterer.
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