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Calais (France)

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  • A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth.
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    A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.

    | Reference: 36345i
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    The chronicle of Calais, in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. To the year 1540. [By R. Turpyn?] Ed. from MSS. in the British Museum / by John Gough Nichols.

    Turpyn, Richard, 1506-1541? | Date: 1846
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    Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: 6th March 1749 | Reference: 39190i
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