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A man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy London street. Coloured aquatint.
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Credit: A man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy London street. Coloured aquatint.
Credit: Wellcome Collection.
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In the background are two snorting horses and linkboys running about bearing burning torches
Physical description
1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 25.8 x 20.3 cm
Publications note
Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 10747i
Lettering note
Lettering is inscribed in pencil and reads: "A London fog. 1802"