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Having spent his Christmas at Walmer in Kent, Prime Minister Pitt is satirised as a stranger upon his return to #London for the Queen's birthday celebrations on January 19th 1803
The Duke of York works up a sweat displaying some Military Eloquence in calling out a liar outside Pizza Express in Woking, on January 6th 1795
One for @18thCent_Kitty as the Pretty Mantua Maker steps out onto the Strand, in #London on New Year's Day, 1772
December 29th 1788 and Britain faces getting one of its worst Xmas presents ever as playboy George, Prince of Wales comes close to persuading Britannia to let him assume the throne as Regent because his dad George III is off sick. Luckily the King recovered
The Fat Lady Sings!
Mrs. Billington's return to #London in December 1801 caused a great sensation. Appearing at Covent Garden "her en bon point is a little beyond the ton of the day; but her figure is grand; &derives from her deportment, step, and manners, an uncommon interest."
Gillray satire from December 1807 showing the perils of going hunting carrying too much ballast
#Napoleon, hearing news of Admiral #Nelson'as victory at the Battle of the Nile, threatens 'to extirpate the English from the earth' in December 1798. Good luck with that one Boney
Looks like Charles James Fox got himself a dressing up box for Christmas, and fancies himself as the next King, December 26th 1788
The Day Before Christmas: the Norwich stagecoach going to London: Six horses drawing coach in a snow covered plain, the coach fully loaded with baskets and animals hanging, one of the coachmen catching goose with his whip, & the sea in the distance. December 1820