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A self portrait of William Hogarth from March 1758 seated at his work, wearing an indoor cap and a loose coat, he holds a palette, brushes and palette knife while a pot of oil is on the floor beside the chair.
The interior of a Milliner's shop in #Windsor; Windsor Castle can be seen through the open sash-window of the parlour behind the shop. and Queen Charlotte is seated at the counter buying tape (1778)
Old #CoventGarden Market at #Xmas 1825 ; view from beneath the tiled roof of a stall, stacked with baskets of fruit, a man with a pair of scales, a woman nursing a baby, another kneeling over a stove #London
Of course, back in 1818 the concept of having a toyboy was not yet fully formed
Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School was opened at 377 The Strand during the summer of 1819 proving popular with thrill-seeking #London dandies
OTD 1795 some merriment at #Brighton as the Prince of Wales & Lady Jersey watch Sir John Lade win a wager to carry overweight butt-naked Lord Cholmondeley twice around the Steine
Sept 1814 satire on the fall of #Napoleon: a crutch-maker tears his hair outside his shop, while a demobbed soldier embraces his sweetheart
#WellingtonaDay The Duke of #Wellington was renowned as a 'good General but a damn bad marksman' c.1823