A collection of four engraved admission tickets to the trial of Warren Hastings for the 75th, 116th, 136th, and 141st days in Westminster Hall, each signed by (presumably) the chamberlain for the day -- Chedworth, Somerset, Darlington, Dorchester. Tw...
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Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He joined the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident of Murshidabad; appointed to the Calcutta council in ...
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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804., Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824., Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Somerset, Charles Henry, Lord, 1767-1831.
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a lands...
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Essay on man
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Title from item.
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Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a lands...
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
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Title from item.
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Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Plate [41] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
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1
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still image
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"Interior of the palace dungeon at night, where King John's men are gathered with torches, preparing to murder Prince Arthur, who kneels in the centre, pleading with Hubert, who stands on the left holding a dagger and seizing the prince's wrist."--Bri...
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Title from text below image.
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Published as the act directs, by Robt. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall and Printed by J. Shoveller
Plate [28] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
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1
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still image
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"Title-page to Chapter V of Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; with synopsis of the contents and illustration above showing Rufus lying on the ground in a forest with an arrow in his chest, his horse standing over him, the archer fleeing...
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Death of William Rufus
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Title from text above image.
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Published as the act directs by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
