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A silk dyeing factory with smoking chimneys; advertising John Pullar & Son, silk dyer and scourer at Perth, Scotland. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859.Reference: 30857i
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Indian silk weaver and spinner with wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28954i- Pictures
The bazaar of the silk mercers in Cairo with a man smoking a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1848, after D. Roberts.
Roberts, David, 1796-1864.Date: 1 December 1848Reference: 25485i
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A young woman implores her father to allow her to marry a politician who supported a different candidate in the Middlesex by-election from the one favoured by the father. Engraving by J. Miller, 1769.
Miller, John, 1715-1790?Date: [1769]Reference: 27324i- Pictures
Bursa, Turkey: the silk exchange. Lithograph by J.F. Lewis, 1838, after Coke Smythe.
Smyth, Coke, 1808-1882.Date: [1838]Reference: 2150207i