An Irish wake... mb-code 2502573 View of the River Thames

View of the River Thames at low tide near Vauxhall Bridge

Portrait of Queen Adelaide

the inn was the meeting place of the pilgrims in Chaucers 'Canterbury Tales'

'Summer Fashions for 1838'

King George III is presenting the sword to a kneeling Admiral Earl Howe

An Irish wake... mb-code 2502573 View of the River Thames'An Irish wake, or the Whisky Club singing a requiem to the manes of the persecuted and Queen', 1821. George IV, William Curtis, Viscount Castlereagh, Benjamin Bloomfield and others sit around a table with glasses of whisky in their hands. A satire on the death of the Queen and the dinner given in Dublin on 23rd August.