The_Parliament_Close_and_Public_Characters_Fifty_Years_Since.jpg


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English: "The Parliament Close and Public Characters Fifty Years Since". It depicts a scene from before 1796, the year when the Goldsmiths' Hall, seen on the left of the picture, was burnt down. Some of the characters shown in the painting, based on caricatures by John Kay, are identified on its description page at Commons.
Date (depicting 1794)
Source scanned from The Story Of Scotland, First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group, 1999-2000
Author Sir David Wilkie, figures by Alexander Fraser and William Kidd; architectural details by David Roberts and John Wilson.

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