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  • A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.

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    A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.

    | Giovanni Battista Piazzetta | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 26936i
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    Charles James Fox dressed as an oriental prince sits astride an elephant which is led by Edmund Burke, also in oriental attire, through Leadenhall street towards the India office. Etching by J. Sayers, 1783.

    | James Sayers | Date: 5th De[1783] | Reference: 585074i

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