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The entomologist. (BM 1868,0808.9442)
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Brougham sits, paint-brush in hand, his right eye looking through a magnifying-glass fixed before a slide on which are insects. On a large drawing-board propped on his table is the Magnified View of the ' "Cimex lectularius" (Common Bug)', and beside it the insect 'Natural size'. The enlarged bug, as drawn by Brougham, has the head of Sugden, in a barrister's wig, which is turned in profile to gaze apprehensively at the artist, who says: 'Well I've drawn a good magnified representation of the nauseous insect, surely the Chancery court and other old Houses might be cleaned of them—at any rate I'll try'. On the table is a completed drawing of a gnat-like insect with a barrister's head; other drawings are on the floor: a grasshopper wearing a bishop's wig and mitre; a caterpillar and butterfly, each with a human head (the latter, with horn-like antennae, resembles Ellenborough, cf. BM Satires No. 16106). Under the large table are drawers for specimens, and behind Brougham is a glass case of big butterflies. 8 August 1832
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