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English gentleman lighting his nightshirt on fire

English gentleman lighting his nightshirt on fire with a candle. John Mytton, drunk, tried to cure his hiccoughs by setting his clothes on fire. He was saved by two men in his bedroom. Damn this hiccup! Chromolithographic facsimile of an illustration by Henry Thomas Alken - from Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton by Nimrod aka Charles James Apperley, Kegan Paul, London, 1900

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14014466

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45805136

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6610px x 4627px (6.4MB)

Credit

©Florilegius/Mary Evans

Source

Henry Thomas Alken

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