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Prime Minister #Pitt the Younger intruding upon one of John Bull's last remaining luxuries, namely the privacy of his toilet, with yet another taxation demand to fund the war effort, December 16th 1797

Lampoon of the followers of fashion following the nowadays familiar trope of attacking the larger sized woman from 'Cheapside' for her efforts to emulate the classier West End model, #London December 9th 1794

Desperate deeds desperate times.

My thesis needs me so I must depart this place and commit my all to that noble enterprise before all is lost.

I will miss you all but hope to return in glory.

Until then...

A wonderful early example of English eccentricity. Meet George Wilson, aka the Blackheath Pedestrian, who walked 1000 miles around #Blackheath Common in 20 days during the summer of 1815

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.

A view of the British Museum in #London (1919)

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