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Description: | Engraving. An etched view of the Park and Royal Observatory on the Whit-Monday holiday, with the usual high-jinks going on ? ?punters?, pedlars organ-grinder, brawlers, drinkers, dancers, pic-nickers, floozies, 'tumblers' on the hill, the odd lady and gent (one with a peg-leg, possibly an officer of Greenwich Hospital) and boys climbing trees. According to the inscriptions it was published in the 'European Magazine' on 1 June 1802, a journal which occasionally did such views though portraits of 'notables' were its more frequent illustration if those of naval officers in the NMM holding are indicative.
NMM photo already taken: F6016. PvdM. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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