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with a sword

Fitzroy Square

In the foreground two figures can be seen carrying a sedan chair

it was sometimes referred to as 'Tradescant's Ark'

Humbug or heraldic honours Size:XL: 100 x 75cm with a sword'Humbug or heraldic honours', c1790. A vulgar character, applying for a grant of arms, admitting that his greatest achievement was escaping from Ludgate Prison by a rope which he had fixed around the statue of King Lud. This is a satire on the College of Arms.

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