Upper Class Gallery

Satirical drawing: Artist Painting an Old Lady's Portrait, 1729-1804

Satirical drawing: Artist Painting an Old Lady's Portrait, 1729-1804. Attributed to Pietro Antonio Novelli

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Sir H. Sloane, (1660-1753), 1830. Creator: Unknown

Sir H. Sloane, (1660-1753), 1830. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) Irish physician, naturalist and collector whose donations founded the British Museum, British Library and Natural History Museums in London. Elected to the Royal College of Physicians by age 27 he travelled to Jamaica, witnessed cruelty to slaves and discovered cocoa. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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St. Jamess Street, 18th century, (1925). Creator: Unknown

St. James's Street, 18th century, (1925). Engraving after Plate 4 of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress of 1735, Arrested for Debt'. The rake, Tom Rakewell, is stopped as he alights from his sedan chair. On the left is a Bow Street officer. The scene is St James's Street, looking towards St James's Palace from the King Street junction in London. From "London in the Eighteenth Century", by Sir Walter Besant. [A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1925]

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