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Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847

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  • People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.
  • Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • Gentlemen carrying torches visiting catacombs in Paris. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • A farrier at Saint-Denis is talking to a countryman as he shoes his horse; people are about to set off for Paris in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured etching by R.B Peake and aquatint by R. Havell.
  • A market with a man carrying pails of milk, a woman selling vegetables to a sapeur-pompier (fireman), and a woman selling fish to a man as a soldier looks on. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
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    A market with a man carrying pails of milk, a woman selling vegetables to a sapeur-pompier (fireman), and a woman selling fish to a man as a soldier looks on. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

    Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. | Date: [1816] | Reference: 30401i
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    A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Aquatint by R.B. Peake after H.W. Bunbury.

    Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. | Reference: 16582i
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    People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.

    Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. | Date: May 1 1816 | Reference: 6158i
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    Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

    Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. | Date: [1816] | Reference: 30807i
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    A farrier at Saint-Denis is talking to a countryman as he shoes his horse; people are about to set off for Paris in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured etching by R.B Peake and aquatint by R. Havell.

    Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847. | Date: Jany. 1819 | Reference: 30803i
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