Lunatic, Nicholas
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photo - whole telescope
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Maker: Lunatic, Nicholas

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Collection: Wellcome Images

Accession #: ICV No 50851

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Wellcome Library, London.

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The Prince of Wales looks from a window of Carlton House at a crowd of people and a woman on a broomstick; George III looks on through a telescope. Coloured etching by "H. Shade" after "Nicholas Lunatic". The woman on the broomstick may be Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales. Below her, the gate of Carlton House is labelled "Fat witch of London". The man in the left foreground is Samuel Whitbread. Seated in the centre is Sheridan with a bottle of sherry. A paper inscribed "Catholic bill" is on the left

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