Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 34 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 34: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is running prose from page 34 of "A Month's Tour," a travel narrative. The text describes Trinity College (likely Trinity College Dublin), detailing its library with Irish oak pillars, its administrative structure (a Provost, Fellows, and scholars), and notably an anatomical school containing wax figures depicting pregnant females in various stages of pregnancy. These figures, created on real skeletons, are attributed to a French artist named Denoue and represent his life's work. The passage presents these anatomical models as a remarkable achievement of artistic genius. The page uses period typography with long "s" characters typical of the era.
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34 A MONTH's TOUR. plain. The library is a fine lofty room, adorn’d with pillars of Irifh oak, and fur- nifhed with a good collection of books. The college confifts of a Provoft, fix fe- nier and eighteen junior Fellows, and fixty Icholars. The Provoit’s lodgings are very ftately and commodious. De part of ‘Trinity, however, ‘which moft engaged our attention, ‘was the ana- - tomical fchool, in which is a fet of figures in wax, reprefenting, in a manner peculie arly ftriking, females in every {tate of preg- nancy. They are done upon real ikele- tons, and are the labours of almoft the whole life of a moft ingenious French ‘ar- tit named Denoue. This monument of uncommon genius cannot fail to tranfmit his comicbooks.com