Green mineral of lead Size:M: 60 x 45cm On 24th March 1860 a

On 24th March 1860 a treaty was signed by Napoleon III and the King of Sardinia concerning the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France

which was built as a milestone in 1771

with a petticoat suspended from the ceiling above them

In the foreground there are boats moored on the south bank with the River Thames at low tide

Prize fighting had by now fallen into disfavour

Green mineral of lead Size:M: 60 x 45cm On 24th March 1860 aThis sample was excavated in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Plate 41 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed: 'Tabula XXXXI, J. G. V. Mayr pinx. J. M. Seligmann excudit. Joh. Sebast. Leitner sculps'. Original: engraving. 1752