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Captain Thomas Coram
, by William Hogarth, 1740, shown with the Foundling Hospital's Royal Charter in his hand.
 
Prince Charles Edward Stuart,
by Antonio David,
c
. 1732. Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender, led the highlanders in the Jacobite rising of 1745.
 
Combat at Culloden, 16 April 1746,
by David Morier,
c
. 1750, commissioned by the Duke of Cumberland.
 
A drawing of highland warriors, attributed to John Clerk of Penicuik,
c
. 1746. The ‘Penicuik' sketchbook is a unique and masterly document of the human face of the Jacobite war, at times mordantly satirical, at other times full of pathos and disgust. At his best the artist rises to the heights of a Scottish Goya.
 
The south front of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, 1758–65, the grand Georgian house designed by Robert Adam for Sir Nathaniel Curzon.
 
The Temple of British Worthies
by William Kent,
c
. 1731–35, Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire.
 
William Pitt the Elder, First Earl of Chatham,
by William Hoare,
c
. 1754.
 
Portrait of an African,
once thought to be Olaudah Equiano, English School,
c
. 1780.
 
George III
, studio of Allan Ramsay,
c
. 1767.
 
Death of the Marquis de Montcalm
, engraved by G. Chevillet,
c
. 1760.
 
Death of General Wolfe
, by Benjamin West, 1770.
 
The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston, on March 5th, 1770 by a Party of the 29th Reg
, front page of the
Boston Gazette
, engraved by Paul Revere, March, 1770.
 

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