The nineteenth century acting technique of making points was encouraged by the dramaturgy of the melodramas which dominated the stage. The style was in fact difficult to avoid in many popular plays.

The number given before the generic name is the biocode used in the museum for cataloguing purposes.

Everyone in the Moravian settlements goes putzing, visiting others' works of art.

While brothel patrons placed their bets / On who would be the first to break her in