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Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, 1810.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 15 of Nov. [1810]Reference: 33012i- Books
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Substance of the speech of the Right Honourable the Earl Temple, in the House of Commons, on Thursday, the 14th February, 1799, on the question of the Bringing UP The resolutions respecting the Irish union, passed in the committee.
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839.Date: 1799- Books
The Stowe catalogue priced and annotated / by Henry Rumsey Forster. [With 'Historical notice of Stowe', etc].
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861.Date: 1848- Pictures
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: August 8th 1810Reference: 36363i- Pictures
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1810.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Publish'd Aug.t 1810Reference: 2496779i- Books
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Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.
British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)Date: 1895-1896- Pictures
King Charles II receiving the first pineapple cultivated in England. Engraving by R. Grave after S. Harding after H. Danckerts.
Danckerts, Hendrick, approximately 1625-1680.Date: May 1, 1823Reference: 2042905i- Books
Catalogue of the important collection of manuscripts, from Stowe / Which will be sold by auction, by S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. ... on Monday, 11th of June, 1849, and seven following days. [Compiled by W.J. Smith].
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861.Date: [1849]- Pictures
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A large man in bed after giving birth to a mouse; referring to the Duke of Buckingham's attempt to introduce his own 'Reform Bill' which excluded disenfranchisement. Coloured lithograph by J.Doyle, 1832.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: [23 April 1832]Reference: 12237iPart of: HB Sketches- Pictures
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Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 7 March 1831Reference: 12229iPart of: HB Sketches- Pictures
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John Bull as the patient of promotors of competing therapies; representing British parliamentary reform. Aquatint by S. de Wilde, 1809.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: Published for the Satirist July 1st. 1809Reference: 12204i- Pictures
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Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interested factions; representing the social and ministerial conflict surrounding him. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 28 July 1806Reference: 12199i