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Flags - Great Britain

Images

  • Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.
  • Mr. Lambkin drunk on champagne sitting in a carriage at Epsom with lots of other drunken bachelors. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Fifteen uniformed men, each of different rank in the Royal Navy, on the deck of a ship. Coloured lithograph, c. 1859.
  • Boer War: The Duke of Connaught raising the Union Jack on the masthead of a hospital ship, an official Committee and line of soldiers in attendance. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson after D. Macpherson, 1899.
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    A man standing on a bank holds a large Union flag which is wrapped around a group of six standing figures believed to be patriots. Engraving 1771.

    | Date: [January 1771] | Reference: 584088i
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    Mr. Lambkin drunk on champagne sitting in a carriage at Epsom with lots of other drunken bachelors. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Reference: 12124i
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    Boer War: page two of an article entitled "women in the war" with illustrations of a ceremony on the hospital ship "Maine" and the hospital ship "Princess of Wales". Halftone, 1900, after text by A. Hugh Fisher and pictures by S. Begg.

    Begg, Samuel, active 1886-1900. | Date: [1900] | Reference: 23847i
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    Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.

    Maud, W. T., 1865-1903. | Date: [1899] | Reference: 23709i
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    A mortar and pestle; the American eagle; and the joined flags of the United Kingdom and the United States; advertising Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London. Relief photoengraving on metal.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?] | Reference: 2897053i
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