Items matching december taken from Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
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Pictures from The Everyday Book and Table Book, by William Hone, 1826, London.
The illustrations are probably by George Cruikshank.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for William Hone and another for George Cruikshank.
The book has been scanned entirely and low-resolution page images of the full book are online hosted by Google.
| December Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)
(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the festivals at December.A poem un [...] Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas Places shown: none Added: 2006-01-09 + S K L R N |
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