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Portrait of the King Louis XV (1710-1774)

March 1992 DM-1894-219

The labourer is drunk because Mr Lowe had exempted from taxation all hotel servants and all those who dealt in intoxicating liquors

showing holiday-makers hurrying down Greenwich Hill in a heavy rainstorm

View showing the statue of the hospital's founder

Indian cobra Product:Greetings card Portrait of the King LouisHead study of an Indian cobra ('Naja tripudians'), including variant name 'Bans bunniah Keautiah' and details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. A detail of this painting forms part of plate 3 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments', by Sir Joseph Fayrer FRS (1824 1907), J & A

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