'Palace at Pekin' [Beijing] clueless Botanical study of prickly sow-thistle

Botanical study of prickly sow-thistle with jagged leaves (Sonchus asper laciniatus)

as Britannia attempts to mediate

draught and fume excluders

Samuel Whitbread and the Duke of Bedford

'Palace at Pekin' [Beijing] clueless Botanical study of prickly sow-thistleView of the inner court of the Imperial Palace in Peking [Beijing]. Inscribed above: 'PROSPECT OF Y INNER COURT OF THE EMPEROURS PALACE at PEKIN. Key to numerical annotations as follows: '1. Palace where the Emperour Throne is, 2. The two Ambassadors, 3. Ambassador from the Great Mogul, 4. Twelve snow white horses, 5. A Herald, 6. Emperours Liffe guards.' Plate from the book An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand