A History of Britain, Volume 3 (75 page)

A View of the Poor House of Datchworth in Herts. addressd. to the Overseers of England
, detail of an engraving from
Four Persons Found Starved to Death, at Datchworth
(1769), by Philip Thicknesse.

A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to the Gallows
, engraved by William Blake, 1793, from
A Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
(1806) by John Gabriel Stedman.

Wha’ Wants Me, I am Ready & Willing to offer my Services to any Nation or People … Desirous of Liberty & Equality
, cartoon by Isaac Cruikshank, 1792, satirizing Tom Paine and his radical best-seller
Rights of Man
(1791–2).

The Republican Attack
, satirical cartoon of the French Revolution by James Gillray,
c
. 1790.

William Pitt Addressing the House of Commons on the French Declaration of War, 1793
, by Karl Anton Hickel,
c
. 1793.

William Wordsworth
, pastel by Henry Edridge, 1805.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, pencil drawing by Robert Hancock, 1796.

William Godwin
, by James Northcote, 1802.

Mary Godwin (née Wollstonecraft)
, by John Opie,
c
. 1797.

The Queen’s Own Royal Dublin Militia Going into Action at Vinegar Hill, the Light Company Advancing and Firing Covering the Band
, engraving, 1798.

King George III at a Review
(detail), by Sir William Beechey,
c
. 1897–8.

The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory
, by J.M.W. Turner, 1806–8.

The Massacre of Peterloo
(detail), a line drawing, 1819.