A political, anatomical, satirical, lecture on heads and no heads as exhibited at St. J--ms's 1766 Abstract: Print shows the Earl of Bute holding up a bust of William Pitt as the starting point of his lecture on Heads and No Heads on a table before him and on a shelf to the left are several busts identified by number with corresponding descriptions in the printed caption. A woman assistant, on the left, says I hand them in and the devil, on the right holding a burning candle in one hand and a candlesnuffer in the other, says I hand them off, two extinguished candles sit on the table. Nine men
A political, anatomical, satirical, lecture on heads and no heads as exhibited at St. J--ms's 1766 Abstract: Print shows the Earl of Bute holding up a bust of William Pitt as the starting point of his lecture on Heads and No Heads on a table before him and on a shelf to the left are several busts identified by number with corresponding descriptions in the printed caption. A woman assistant, on the left, says I hand them in and the devil, on the right holding a burning candle in one hand and a candlesnuffer in the other, says I hand them off, two extinguished candles sit on the table. Nine men form the audience in the foreground, each utters a comment, such as, Good Lord deliver us, A good Exhibition this, Yes, the Characters are well drawn, and My, all Birds of a Feather.
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