"A very clumsy post-chaise descends a mountain road across a bare moor. On approaching a hair-pin bend the fore-heels have broken off, the chaise is about to upset, the occupant falls through the front window. A Highlander lies prone on the roof, sayi...
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Publish'd May 25th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A pedestrian, flimsily dressed in tail-coat, nankeen trousers, and pumps, struggles against driving rain, turning an agonized face to the spectator. He walks (r. to left.) on a muddy track beside a decayed paling. A raven croaks on a rotten tree. In ...
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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A stout, elderly, well-dressed man walks along a pavement past a ramshackle hovel, holding, reversed, a closed umbrella, which he uses as a walking-stick. He steps on a stone which tilts, splashing his white stockings with filth. From a rotten pipe w...
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Publish'd February 10th, 1808, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
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Autumn, City & town life, Rain, Streets, and Weather
"An unshaven man, wearing only nightcap, shirt, breeches, and slippers, stands by the fireside grimacing with disgust, a medicine-bottle in one hand, full cup in the other. A dying fire, bare boards, and medicine-bottles on the chimney-piece add to th...
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Publish'd Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
"The Duke of Portland and Mrs. Billington sit side by side on a settee; she sings to him, he listens ecstatically, with clasped hands, his head turned in profile to the right., staring with amorous intensity. She holds her music, but looks alluringly ...
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Pubd. April 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
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Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
"The Duke of Portland and Mrs. Billington sit side by side on a settee; she sings to him, he listens ecstatically, with clasped hands, his head turned in profile to the right., staring with amorous intensity. She holds her music, but looks alluringly ...
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Pubd. April 14th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818 and Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
"Three young women, dressed alike in clinging dresses and straw bonnets trimmed with ribbons, are distressed by a high wind. Their dresses are above the ankle, and differ from those in No. 11594 in having long tight sleeves, and longer waists. Two hol...
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Publish'd May 26th by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"An adaptation in reverse of No. 7508 by Sayers. The Prince's head, set in a star which is the head of the comet, is as in No. 7508 except for the addition of a stock between the wings of the coat-collar. In the comet's tail the first profile head is ...
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Pubd. Jany. 1811 by T. Moon, Westminster
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839, Ponsonby, George, 1755-1817, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834
"An elderly man, holding his umbrella in front of him to form a sail, cannonades into another skater, who falls, the apex of the umbrella entering his mouth, while his foot strikes the stomach of the aggressor. The ice cracks beneath them. The latter ...
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Elements of skateing : the consequence of going before the wind and Elements of skating : the consequence of going before the wind
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Publish'd November 24th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
