A man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy London street. Coloured aquatint.

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10747i
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In the background are two snorting horses and linkboys running about bearing burning torches

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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 25.8 x 20.3 cm

Lettering

Lettering is inscribed in pencil and reads: "A London fog. 1802"

References note

Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

Reference

Wellcome Collection 10747i

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