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A townie attempts to master his thoroughbred horse, in #London June 4th 1803
The Tim-Nice-But-Dim character here is Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, 1777-1832, who succeeded his father in 1813 as 13th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Galen. He was said to be 'eccentric and good humoured'
A delightful image of two young women seated on sofa with lute and music score, playing and singing. by @ThosRowlandson - published in #London (1787)
A minutes silence of you please to remember the 'Putney Disaster' of October 20th 1786, when a dopey local clergyman crashed his cart into the Thames, taking his wife with him for an unexpected second baptism
Its May 29th 1803 and Napoleon is getting tossed off by a load of women. Not really an orgy but collective anger about his conscription policies taking their menfolk away from home
Shades of Beatrix Potter here in this satire featuring Lady Hertford as Dame Rat showing off her husband and many children to a vaguely disinterested Charles James Fox, #London March 1782
3/3 however, by 1819 a new Easter Monday tradition appeared, and went on to replace the Epping Hunt - namely cycling from the Eagle Inn at #Snaresbrook - which continued right up to the 1970s https://t.co/ATXbNZiEal
The Provost's House and Trinity College, #Dublin by Thomas Malton c.1790
Shades of Canaletto here with this Venetian-style portrait of the River Thames, with Somerset House to the left and St Paul's Cathedral dominating the background skyline, by Thomas Malton, #London (1796)
And lastly, @ProfThomasDixon - The emotion of anger' seemingly attributed exclusively to women -
"This unruly Passion shows itself in a forcible degree in a termagant Mistress, scolding her Maid servant." - Rowlandson, #London (January 1800)