Thomas Potter Cooke

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Thomas Potter Cooke

after Unknown artist
coloured lithograph, circa 1826
13 in. x 10 3/8 in. (330 mm x 262 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D17993

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  • Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6578 portraits.

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Riots break out in Lancashire against the use of the power loom, invented by Edmund Cartwright. The looms were gradually being introduced across the country, replacing large numbers of manual workers.

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Thomas Telford's Menai Straits and Conway Suspension Bridges open, the largest of their kind at the time.

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Carl Weber arrives to live in England after his opera Der Freischutz is the hit of the London season.

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Keith Cavers

30 January 2020, 00:46

Le Monstre et le magicien , mélodrame-féerie en 3 actes ... par Mrs Merle et Antony (Béraud)... (Paris, Porte-Saint-Martin, 10 juin 1826.) Cooke as Le Monstre