Samuel Solomon. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, W. Holl and T. Blood after J. Steel.

George Rose, in profile, in a roundel. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after A. Wivell, 1818.

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1 print : stipple ; platemark 17.7 x 12.6 cm

Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by T. Blood, 1816.

Sculpture of Princess Charlotte Augusta, half length looking downwards to left

Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after I. Taylor after J. Nollekens 1813.

"He wished to encourage the deserving poor. In 1793 he had obtained legislative cover for friendly societies, which by 1803 had 600,000 members. He published Observations on poor relief in 1803, decrying workhouses except for the feeble and insane. Later, in 1814-16, he tried to regulate asylums for the insane through legislation. During 1803–4 he suggested statutory regulation of industrial relations in cotton manufacture and championed a minimum wage for cotton weavers. He believed his proposals to alleviate unemployment were more realistic than Pitt's or Whitbread's. He was no advocate of universal education, but supported maritime schools and was a champion of seamen's welfare. He secured an institution for vaccine inoculation in 1808. In 1813-14 he favoured applying the apprentice system to all trades and criticized agricultural protectionism because it raised the price of bread for the poor. A member of the poor-law committee in the 1812 parliament, he secured an inquiry into London beggary on 8 June 1815 and reported its progress to the house. Given leave to introduce a bill to promote savings banks, he wrote a pamphlet in support in 1816 and finally secured his objective on 23 May 1817"--Oxford dctionary of national biography

1 print : stipple ; plate mark 17.7 x 12.5 cm

James Hook the elder. "In 1769 Hook became organist and composer at Marylebone Gardens and about this time also he was appointed organist at St John's, Horsleydown, Bermondsey. Five years later he moved to the more prestigious Vauxhall Gardens, where he became well known particularly for his keyboard concerto performances given each evening during the summer season. ... The oboist William Parke recalled Hook in his Memoirs: a good-humoured character, he walked with a limp, having been born club-footed, and was 'a very agreeable companion', an inveterate leg-puller who had 'a happy knack of punning'

1 print : stipple engraving ; platemark 165  x 11.1 cm

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Blood, T., active 1811-1826.

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Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by T. Blood, 1816.

Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after I. Taylor after J. Nollekens 1813.

George Rose, in profile, in a roundel. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after A. Wivell, 1818.

Samuel Solomon. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, W. Holl and T. Blood after J. Steel.

James Hook the elder. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after S. Drummond, 1813.

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Blood, T., active 1811-1826.

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Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by T. Blood, 1816.

Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after I. Taylor after J. Nollekens 1813.

George Rose, in profile, in a roundel. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after A. Wivell, 1818.

Samuel Solomon. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, W. Holl and T. Blood after J. Steel.

James Hook the elder. Stipple engraving by T. Blood after S. Drummond, 1813.

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