"An elderly man stands in profile to the right outside a building on which are election placards, holding out his (orange-coloured) hat in which is a favour and a ticket inscribed Milton. He is curiously square, round-shouldered, long-waisted, and ban...
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Pubd. March 6th, 1809, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"A loutish yokel (l.), holding a pitchfork, grins avidly at a hideous and elderly country woman who crouches behind a stile (r.), her features twisted in a sly grimace. In the background (l.) men reap a corn-field, and corn-stooks cover a more distant...
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Publishd. Jany. 23d, 1805, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. Jamess [sic] Street
"A grotesquely dilapidated post-chaise stands outside a ramshackle inn (r.); the driver lashes the horses cruelly, a boy lifts a pitch-fork to strike, but the wretched animals refuse to move. A barefooted slattern approaches from the r. with a huge re...
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Publish'd. April 8th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
"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
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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
