Comte Gallery

Barbary macaque or magot, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered

Barbary macaque or magot, Macaca sylvanus. Endangered. Copperplate engraving by P.F. Tardieu after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1766. Date:

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Homecoming procession for William Curtis, 1821

Homecoming procession for William Curtis, Lord Mayor of London, 1821. Aldermen and shopkeepers carry torches beside the carriage. Procession and Te Deum Chaunt for Sir Billy Biscuit. Handcoloured engraving from Pierce Egan's Real Life in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru Esq., and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty, published by William Evans, London, 1829

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Sarah Elizabeth, Susannah and Sophia Copley

Sarah Elizabeth, Susannah and Sophia Copley, daughters of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst. Two younger sisters playing with the ringlets of the oldest sister Sarah. Susannah on the left died at age 15 after this portrait was painted. They wear off the shoulder dresses decorated with ribbons, the youngest in bloomers. A parrot on a stand in the background. Steel engraving by Henry Cook after an illustration by Daniel Maclise from Charles Heath's Portraits of the Children of the Nobility, Longmont, London, 1838

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