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John Wesley preaching outside a church

John Wesley preaching outside a church, undated

An oval oak and silver snuff box, 1660

Oak and silver snuff box, 1660

Jean Ducrollay, Snuffbox, 1744, Paris. Gold and enamel. 3.2 x 7.6 x 5.8 cm. The Wallace Collection, London.

Jeweled Snuffbox, ca. 1765, German, Berlin. Glass, gold, silver, diamonds and rubies, H. 6 cm, L. 10 cm, D. 8.8 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

Jeweled Snuffbox, ca. 1765

George Cruikshank, Sales by Auction! - or Provident Children Disposing of their Deceased Mother

Sales by Auction!, 1819

Extract from Buck’s 1745 South-east Prospect of Leeds

1820 playbill

Play-bill, 1820

Hogarth, The Bruiser, 1763

The Bruiser, 1763

Frontispiece of 1st edition of Robinson Cruose by Daniel Defoe from 1719.

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Captain Cook's ship 'Endeavour' arriving at Matavai Bay, Tahiti, on April 13, 1769. Engraving by Antonio Zatta, based on a painting by fellow Italian artist Pietro Antonio Novelli.

Captain Cook in Tahiti, 1769

Mirth and Friendship, 1768-1772

Mirth and Friendship, 1768-1772

Poney, or one-horse phaeton, 1796

Poney, or one-horse phaeton, 1796

The Conjurers (1753) By Lady Fanny Killigrew.

The Conjurers (1753)

Lord Byron in 1813 by Thomas Phillips

Lord Byron, 1813

The Byres Family circa 1776 - 1779, by Franciszek Smuglewicz. Osterley Park and House, London.

The Byres Family, c. 1776-1779

Matthew Darly, ‘The City Rout’, 1776 [British Museum]

The City Rout, 1776

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Hester Thrale and her daughter Hester (c. 1777), Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada.

Hester Thrale and her daughter, c. 1777

Bulstrode Hall, 1787

Bulstrode Hall, 1787

The Chimney Sweeper, 1795

The Chimney Sweeper, 1795

Sawrey Gilpin - Lioness and Cubs, England

Sawrey Gilpin - Lioness and Cubs, England, undated

Léonard-Alexis Autié's Académie de coiffure on the rue de la Chaussée d'Antin in Paris in 1788, The Picture Magazine, January–June, 1894, p. 263.

Académie de coiffure, 1794

Colley Cibber, 1740

Colley Cibber, 1740

Duel between Lord Hervey and the Honble William Pultney (1731)

Duel between Lord Hervey and the Honble William Pultney, 1731

Oroonoko (1775)

Oroonoko (1775)

The works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes Complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Published by Mr. Warburton. With occasional notes Author: Alexander Pope Date: MDCCLI. [1751] Publisher: printed for J. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper (London) Volume: 4

Works of Alexander Pope, 1751

A Christmas Tree at St Luke’s Asylum, London . Engraving. Illustrated Times , 19 January 1861.

A Christmas Tree at St Luke’s Asylum,1861

"White Lion Inn, Ponder's End, Middlesex" by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), 1822. Yale University Library, Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 14.

White Lion Inn, 1822

'Old inns in Southwark', Old and New London. London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878, chapter 7.

Old inns in Southwark, 1878