The triumphal entry of the Union into London, 1801
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A satire on the 1801 Acts of Union, which legally combined the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom. A long procession including allegorical figures representing Britannia and Ireland as well as military and civil personifications, are shown entering London with satirical representations of poor Irish peasants