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  • The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.