Punch,  33 (1857), 250.

Terrific Accident

Anon

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Zoology, Amusement


    Shows 'Old Mrs. Twaddle', two young women and a boy, standing before Mrs Twaddle's smashed 'Aqua-Vivarium'. An electric eel and several fish lie on Mrs Twaddle's carpet and, as the caption explains, 'The Old Lady May be Observed Endeavouring to Pick up Her Favourite Eel with the Tongs, A Work Requiring Some Address'.



© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020

Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]