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Images from the collections

Images about Monarchy

8 images from works
  • Portrait of Queen Victoria, by Forestier, 1897
  • Queen Victoria as a young woman, by F.W. Wilkin
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Queen Victoria surrounded by her family.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Portrait of Queen Victoria, by D.J. Pound
  • Portrait of Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise
  • King George IV and entourage laden with provisions, about to embark from Brighton in the Royal Yacht; representing the extravagant monarch's distressed retreat from England at the time of the Queen's trial. Coloured etching by R. Cruikshank, 1820.

Works from the collections

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    Discourses concerning government . By Algernon Sidney, Esq; to which are added, memoirs of his life, and an apology for himself, both now first published, and the latter from his original manuscript. The third edition. With an alphabetical index of the principal matters.

    Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683. | Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]
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    Common sense addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. ... A new edition, with several additions ... To which is added an appendix, together with an address to the people called Quakers.

    Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. | Date: 1776
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    A letter to a friend

    | Date: 1761?]
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    Queen Victoria surrounded by her family.

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    A letter to a friend concerning the new distinction of high and low church

    | Date: 1704
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Political science
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783
Political science - Early works to 1800
Republics
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Political science - History - 18th century
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