The Times, plate I Finish:Float frame horse drawn traffic and mounted

horse drawn traffic and mounted cavalry

8th December 1984

Algernon Sydney

'If musick's charms can hearts enthral

The Times, plate I Finish:Float frame horse drawn traffic and mounted'The Times, plate I', c1762 (1895). A representative of King George III fights a fire (the Seven Years War), which is burning down houses representing Germany and France, whilst William Pitt is presented as an idol on stilts, worshipped by the aldermen of London and the London mob he fans the flames with bellows; a house on left (representing England) sinks into decrepitude. A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris