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Streets - England

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  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • A young man outside a pharmacy and unfortunately bumping into his creditor. Aquatint by D.T. Egerton after himself.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
  • A surgeon bandaging an elderly man's knee in a street surrounded by a group of onlookers. Colour process print after R. Caldecott.
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    The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Reference: 20634i
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    Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.

    Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896. | Date: 1865 | Reference: 15683i
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    A young man outside a pharmacy and unfortunately bumping into his creditor. Aquatint by D.T. Egerton after himself.

    Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797-1842. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 15978i
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    A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

    Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957. | Reference: 24002i
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    Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.

    | Reference: 12210i
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