A distressed woman in national costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog to rescue; representing Switzerland. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl. by William Holl

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Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after T. Strutt after D. Teniers, the younger.

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A distressed woman in national costume is standing in the snow outside a monastery and pleads to two monks pointing in the distance, the monks are sending out their St. Bernard dog to rescue; representing Switzerland. Stipple engraving by F. Stone after W. Holl.

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