Sir John Fielding wearing a blindfold sits in a chair holding instruments of justice before Madam Cornelys on the shoulders of a lawyer and the Duchess of Northumberland. Engraving, 1771.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the picture gallery at ground floor level, showing the folding screens. Lithograph, 1830.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: plans of the basement and ground floors, showing the heating arrangements. Lithograph by Day & son.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the hallway and stairs at ground floor level, showing the vestibule and chairs. Lithograph by C. Hullmandel [1835] after C. J. Richardson.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the dressing room at ground floor level. Lithograph by C. J. Richardson.

Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the Belzoni Chamber at basement level, showing the sarcophagus of Seti I. Engraving.

Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.

Fukien province, China: women tea plantation workers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

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A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster / [Sir John Fielding].

An account of the origin and effects of a police set on foot by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle in the year 1753, upon a plan presented to his Grace by the late Henry Fielding, Esq; To which is added A Plan for preserving those deserted Girls in this Town, who become Prostitutes from Necessity. By John Fielding, Esq;

An account of the receipts and disbursements relating to Sir John Fielding's plan, for the preserving of distressed boys, by sending them to sea, ...

The universal mentor; Or, Entertaining instructor. Consisting of essays on the most important subjects in life; selected from the most approved historians, biographers, and moral writers, ancient and modern. By Sir John Fielding, Knt.

The universal mentor; containing, essays on the most important subjects in life; composed of observations, sentiments, and examples of virtue, selected from the approved ethic-writers, biographers, and historians both antient and modern. By Sir John Fielding, Knt.

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A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster / [Sir John Fielding].

An account of the receipts and disbursements relating to Sir John Fielding's plan, for the preserving of distressed boys, by sending them to sea, ...

The universal mentor; Or, Entertaining instructor. Consisting of essays on the most important subjects in life; selected from the most approved historians, biographers, and moral writers, ancient and modern. By Sir John Fielding, Knt.

The universal mentor; containing, essays on the most important subjects in life; composed of observations, sentiments, and examples of virtue, selected from the approved ethic-writers, biographers, and historians both antient and modern. By Sir John Fielding, Knt.

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A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster / [Sir John Fielding].

An account of the receipts and disbursements relating to Sir John Fielding's plan, for the preserving of distressed boys, by sending them to sea, ...

The universal mentor; Or, Entertaining instructor. Consisting of essays on the most important subjects in life; selected from the most approved historians, biographers, and moral writers, ancient and modern. By Sir John Fielding, Knt.

The universal mentor; containing, essays on the most important subjects in life; composed of observations, sentiments, and examples of virtue, selected from the approved ethic-writers, biographers, and historians both antient and modern. By Sir John Fielding, Knt.