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Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882

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  • A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.
  • People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
  • An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • The highwayman Dick Turpin, on horseback, arrives at a tree from which two bodies have been hanged. Lithograph by W. Clerk, ca. 1839.
  • The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.
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    People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.

    Franklin, John, active 1800-1861. | Reference: 6924i
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    A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

    Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. | Date: 1865 | Reference: 29473i
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    Old Saint Pauls. A tale of the plague and the fire / by William Harrison Ainsworth.

    Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882. | Date: 1847
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    An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

    Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. | Date: [1865] | Reference: 37582i
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    A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.

    Franklin, J. | Date: 1841 | Reference: 6925i
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