Part f. 34r - Sketch by H. E. Fox of two clothed figures—one with the head of a fish, the other with the head of a vegetable—pasting posters to a fence

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Add. MS a/793/f. 34r

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Sketch by H. E. Fox of two clothed figures—one with the head of a fish, the other with the head of a vegetable—pasting posters to a fence

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  • 7 Aug. 1863 (Creation)

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Fox, Henry Elliott (1841-1926), Church of England clergyman, missionary, and botanist
(1841-1926)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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The sketch is captioned ‘The Crepuscular Billstickers’. The words visible on the three bills are ‘LOST or STRAYED … answers to the name of WITS … of no use to any person but the owners LEEKE SPRATT & Co & not much to them’, ‘NOTICE | LEEKE SPRATT & CO … Fishmongers & Greengrocers Purveyors of Cats meat will be happy to supply the nobility & gentry with trash & offal of all kinds’, and ‘Truth is stranger than Fiction | ON VIE … ’. At the foot is written ‘See Page 55.’

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      Pasted to f. 34r of Add. MS a. 793.

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