Punch,  58 (1870), 120.

Aggravating Flippancy

D M *

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

D M *

Subjects:

Anthropology, Societies, Gender


    Shows a husband and wife relaxing before a fire in their parlour. The wife combs her hair and asks her husband where he has been that night. He explains that he has 'spent a most instructive evening with the "Anthropological Society"'—an organisation whose name and activities his wife misunderstands.



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