View Of The Chinese Pagoda And Bridge In St James Park Erected In Commemoration Of A General Peace

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London : printed and published by G. Davis, at the Royal Jubilee Printing Office, in Hyde Park, 1814. Small folio broadside printed on silk approx. 13 x 9½ ; near fine. Monday, 1st August 1814 was both the anniversary of the Battle of the Nile and the centenary of the ascension to the throne of the Hanoverian monarchs; to celebrate these and the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which ended hostilities between Britain and France, the day was chosen for

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