"The Procession of the Flitch of Bacon." (BM 1902,1011.9698)

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"The Procession of the Flitch of Bacon." (BM 1902,1011.9698)

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No. 669 and 670. A procession moving along a street from right towards left, led by young girls scattering flowers before a couple on horseback (Prince Albert and Queen Victoria), attended by two men (Duke of Wellington and Lord Palmerston), and followed by three men (Lords Melbourne and Normanby, Sir Robert Peel), three riders (Lord Russell, Duchess of Kent, Lord Stanley), a man on foot in background (Sir James Graham), and three men on foot in foreground (Archbishop of Canterbury, Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex); two men looking down from a garden wall in background at right (Lord Howick and Charles Wood). 11 February 1841
Lithograph, printed in black and fawn inks

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1841
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