"Would-be swimmers descending a hill to wheeled bathing carriages on the shore, the wind blowing at clothes and hats."--British Museum online catalogue
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Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinsons, Paternoster Row
"A dog with the head of Sheridan is being chased out of the gate of Devonshire House by the Duke of Portland and other leading whigs. He flees 'To Carlton House', a signpost (left) pointing the way. His collar is inscribed 'G.P.', to his tail is tied ...
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Bardolph badgered and Portland hunt
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Publish'd by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
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Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796
"The interior of the Royal Exchange, showing part of two sides of the arcaded quadrangle, and the statue from the waist downwards of Charles II (by Grinling Gibbons) on a high pedestal surrounded by an iron railing. It is crowded with men, talking in ...
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Publish'd as the act directs, Decer. 28th, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"A lean old woman in night-cap and shift sits in an arm-chair pouncing on an insect on her upraised knee. A cat sits on the arm of the chair. Bedroom furniture and utensils, with clothes thrown to the floor, are in the foreground. The bed-curtains for...
"A colossal figure of Catherine II steps from 'Russia', a rocky mound on the extreme left, to 'Constantinople', her toe resting on the horn of a crescent which surmounts a spire on a group of buildings, with a dome and a minaret. Her head is turned in...
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European powers
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Pub. April 12th, 1791, by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Manin, Lodovico, 1726-1802, Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792, and Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808
"Troops, crowded in carts, &c, approach Portsmouth, where distant ships are at anchor. In the foreground are country carts drawn by soldiers at a gallop. Other soldiers are in and on a coach, the 'Portsmouth Fly'; a drum and fife are being played on t...
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Instance of unexampled speed used by a body of guards
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Pubd. July 12, 1798 at Ackermann's Gallery, 101 Strand
"The patient sits in profile to the left with chattering teeth, holding his hands to a blazing fire on the extreme left Ague, a snaky monster, coils itself round him, its coils ending in claws like the legs of a monstrous spider. Behind the patient's ...
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Ague and fever
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Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"An imaginary scene on the deck of the 'Vanguard'. The sailors are crowded round an improvised table, drinking and huzza-ing. Nelson and his officers sit abovet hem in the stern; a wounded officer is wrapped in a blanket. An officer takes a glass held...
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Pub. Octr. 20, 1798, at Ackermann's Gallery, No. 101 Strand
