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A 'gentleman' undergoing tuition in the art of duelling just outside #London, June 7th 1824. Not sure which is the biggest turkey on view here though
#London June 1781 -Modern Woman cometh
Talk not of yr old Fashion'd rules
Laugh'd at by Children, Joke of the Schools
They may do for yr meek minded Matrons of old
Who knew no use of Spirit but thier Servants to scold
But for me I can swear & what's more drive 4 Horses in Hand
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