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Landseer - The Illicit Highland Whisky Still J040064

APSLEY HOUSE, London. " The Illicit Highland Whisky Still " by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73)

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Animal, Georgian, Paintings

Coat of arms Lord Southwell 18th century

Engraving of the coat of arms of Southwell, Lord Southwell, item 111 in an 18th-century publication. Text on this engraving, including motto, reads: 111 Southwell, Lord Southwell NEC MALE NOTUS EQUES (Not an unknown knight; A knight not badly known). Thomas George Southwell (1721 - 1780). The title Viscount Southwell, of Castle Mattress in the County of Limerick, was created in 1776 for Thomas Southwell, 3rd Baron Southwell.Source: The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, with engravings of their paternal coats of arms by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower. Published 1789

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British Empire world map, 19th century

British Empire world map. This world map shows the 19th-century British Empire (pink) and its indigenous peoples. Five illustrations (clockwise from upper left) show the people of Australia, North America, southern Africa, Europe and Asia. Two tables (top left and top right) list the imperial possessions by area and population, with the totals being over 7 million square miles and nearly 165 million people. Some years of acquisition are also shown. This map was produced in the late 1850s by the Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew (1831-1893). Africa includes the 1856 route taken by the Scottish explorer David Livingstone

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