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hung with flags and a huge banner welcoming the queen

boats with wheels and boats transformed into sledges

The Palladian Horse Guards was built in the early 1750s by John Vardy to a design by William Kent

showing area around Holborn

1882 (1883)

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention kettle hung with flags and a'Patriotic Petitions on the Convention', 1808. Four scenes: top left The Cockney Petition; top right The Westminster Petition; bottom left The Chelmsford Petition; bottom right The Middlesex Petition. A satire on the Convention of Cintra of 1808, which permitted the French to withdraw their surrounded troops from Portugal unmolested and was seen as a national disgrace back in Britain.