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… 1730–1765). Tate Gallery, Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED. Image George Bickham the Younger, ‘Satire on the Westminster Election of May 1741’, The British Museum, 1868,0808.3663, 1741. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The ghost of a … Garden lay at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis, beside the major route between the Court and aristocratic Westminster to the west and the commercial City of London to the east. It was conceived as a square of genteel housing in … meetings and mobs. This slice of London life was presided over by the church of St Paul’s, situated at the western end of the square. 1 . See for instance Richard Horwood, ‘Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of …
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