Dance of politics
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Dance of politics
Dance of politics
Reference
p5428205 (Collage 18317)
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London Metropolitan Archives: Satirical Print Collection
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"Grown citizens learning to dance"; the Duke of Grafton, Prime Minster, as a dancing master treads on the "Petition of the Mile End Rioters" and exhorts a capering citizen (Thomas Harley, Lord Mayor of London?) to keep time to his motions; to the right the Duke of Bedford and Viscount Weymouth, members of Grafton's administration instruct another citizen.
"Grown citizens learning to dance"; the Duke of Grafton, Prime Minster, as a dancing master treads on the "Petition of the Mile End Rioters" and exhorts a capering citizen (Thomas Harley, Lord Mayor of London?) to keep time to his motions; to the right the Duke of Bedford and Viscount Weymouth, members of Grafton's administration instruct another citizen.
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