Slide set: The amateur sweep (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1891)

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Slide 1

And when it is inclined to smoke, like that they're standing by / Why then, you'll guess it is no joke, and make folks 'fit to fly'

Slide 2

With calm deliberation, he has now made up his mind, / That for the smoky misery a remedy he'll find

Slide 3

And so, as all good workers do, when they begin to clean, / He tackled first the topmost fine, as may now here be seen

Slide 4

He than descended from the chair, a rather sad old chap, / And with a photographic air, removed the stove pipe's cap

Slide 5

A pretty picture now he made as you may plainly see; / He rued that he the filthy trade usurped so cheerfully

Slide 6

And now he got on swimmingly -- exerting every limb: / He filled with soot, as you may see, the tub quite to the brim

Slide 7

Just then his wife came to the door, and when she viewed the scene / She would have fainted on the floor, had there a clean spot been

Slide 8

At least his eloquence prevails -- she wipes her weeping eyes, / And though the mischief she bewails, to raise a smile she tries

Slide 9

With anger she directly fired, and gave him such a snub, / In consternation he retired, and tumbled in the tub

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1891-1914 (item ref. 427)

in stock of UK Band of Hope Union, 1891

in stock of Wrench & Son, 1898

in stock of J. Lizars, 1909 (item ref. 667)

Main type of image

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

1891

Reading or song

Robert Craven, ‘The amateur sweep’ in Short lantern readings 11 (1891)

Notes

The illustrated slides from the North Tawton collection may be privately-made copies of the original Bamforth set, or possibly were black-and-white slides disbound for hand-colouring by a later owner, possibly S.J. Taylor of North Tawton.

Collections

9 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3000744

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 16 May 2024

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Slide set: The amateur sweep (recitation: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1891)