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A lecturer is demonstrating the creation of a vacuum: air is pumped out of the glass bowl in which a white cockatoo has been placed. The bird will expire if the lecturer continues to deprive it of oxygen. The reactions of the onlookers range from the distress of a child to the self-absorption of lovers. The couple on the left may be Thomas Coltman and Mary Barlow, the sitters in NG 6496.
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