| Image title: | A Reluctant Tax-Payer |
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| Source: | Nye, Bill: “Bill Nye’s History of England” (1900) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | spooky, death, people, punishments, cartoons, humour, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
Notes: |
It is night-time and a man’s corpose swings from the hangman’s noose on the gibbet. He is clothed, including boots and a hangman’s hood. In the background the moon looks on, aghast. At one time most people would have been familiar with the sight of a dead man, of hangings, but I think this definitely qualifies as “gallows humour.” I made two other versions of this image, by cutting away the background. |
| Filename: | 187-A-Reluctant-Tax-Payer-q75-309x500.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/16/187-A-Reluctant-Tax-Payer-q75-309x500.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/16/pages/187-A-Reluctant-Tax-Payer/ |
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| Cartoons: | W. M. Goodes |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
| Comment: | Add a link, leave a comment or change keywords |
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