1780 Collection (page 10)

Basket Coach 1780
The Basket Coach, so called because it has a basket at the back to hold the luggage

Buffon / Monkeys
HISTOIRE NATURELLE A typical spread from the English edition of his Natural History, plates CCLXVIII and CCLXIX, depicting species of monkey

Man Smoking a Pipe
A portrait of Aesop, the Drunken Rhyming Cobler (sic) of Eton smoking a clay pipe

Gordon Rioters in Street
Gordon rioters are pressed back in the London streets by government soldiers

Gordon Rioters at Parl
A mob of anti-Catholic and rebellious others attack Members of Parliament in Palace Yard, Westminster

Gordon Rioters Gather
Anti-Catholic and anti- authority Gordon rioters gather at the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London

1780 Gordon Riots
An angry mob sets fire to Newgate Prison after some anti-Catholic rioters are jailed there, seeking revenge and plunder

Two Old Drunks (Bobbin)
Heavy drinking has taken its toll on a pair of elderly drunkards with gnarled features and poor personal hygiene

Sir John Fielding
SIR JOHN FIELDING Blind magistrate of Bow Street, London

Tunis Circa 1780
View of the City of TUNIS the Capital of that Kingdom on the Coast of Barbary. - distant view of the city, with shipping in the harbour

Duel / Warren Hastngs
HASTINGS v FRANCIS Warren Hastings wounds his opponent Philip Francis, in India

Saved by a Brother
American Revolutionary Captain MacKinsty, captured by hostile Iroquois, is about to be burnt when their leader Brandt, recognising a brother-Mason, saves him, though an enemy

John Fothergill / Anon
JOHN FOTHERGILL English physician who practised in London and maintained a botanical garden

CHARLESTON (1780)
The harbour at Charleston, South Carolina

Deslon Censured
Deslon, one of Mesmers few supporters at Paris, is censured by the medical establishment who don t share his enthusiasm for the Viennese charlatan

Mesmer and Academie
Mesmer hopes to interest the French Academie des Sciences in his work, but they ignore him and it

Joseph Xavier Tissot
JOSEPH XAVIER TISSOT known as Frere Hilarion, French churchman and physician, founded homes for insane but opposed scientific treatment of insanity

Windsor Castle Town Gate
A view of St Georges Chapel and the town gate of Windsor Castle, with soldiers, a knife-grinder, a sweep and street traders outside the castle wall

Mad Jack of Margate: a local character who added to the colour of Margate making your seaside holiday complete. Daft hat aside, we don t know what form his madness took

Maria Theresia & Boots
The empress Maria Theresia puts on a soldiers boots - an English satire at the time of the Austrian Succession War

Nun Enters Convent
A young lady enters a convent, despite the entreaties of an admirer : a scene from La fille devouee

JOHAN IHRE Swedish scholar and antiquary

Taddeus Reyten
TADDEUS REYTEN Polish military commander

England / Bath / Pump Room
The old pump room, Bath

Galvani Frog Exp. 5
Luigi Galvani, professor at Bologna university, observes contractions in a frogs legs when brought into contact with an electrical machine

Westminster / Palace Yard
OLD PALACE YARD. A view from the south

Gordon Riots (Colour)
THE GORDON RIOTS The no-popery crowd, inflamed by Lord George Gordons rabble-rousing oratory, inflame Newgate gaol as well

Gordon Riots 1780
THE GORDON RIOTS The Burning, Plundering and Destruction of Newgate at the hands of the No Popery mob

Noblewoman Circa 1780
French woman in court dress from the reign of Louis XVI

Little Will, Waiter
Little Will, the well-known waiter at the Turks Head coffee house, 142 The Strand, London, where Johnson & Boswell were regular customers

Jacques-Germain Soufflot
JACQUES-GERMAIN SOUFFLOT French architect, responsible for, inter alia, the Pantheon at Paris

Pyramids by the Nile
Pyramids on the banks of the Nile

Elizabeth Fry (C Leslie)
ELIZABETH FRY - Prison reformer, quaker and philanthropist

Napoleon 1780 Snow Forts
NAPOLEON, circa 1780, attacking snow forts at the military school at Brienne

Pauline Bonaparte
(Maria-Paulette) PAULINE BONAPARTE sister of Napoleon married 1.General Leclerc 2.Prince Camillo Borghese (bust portrait)

Benedict Arnold and Major Andre
Benedict Arnold persuades Major Andre to conceal papers in his boot, causing him to be hanged as a spy when captured by the patriots

CORSET C. 1780
L essai du corset - A Frenchwoman in her boudoir is fitted with a corset by a staymaker. Her lover looks on

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