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Hint Dropping, or Sapping & Mining

by Robert Seymour, published by Thomas McLean
hand-coloured lithograph, published 3 August 1829
10 1/4 in. x 14 1/4 in. (260 mm x 363 mm) paper size
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, 2018
Reference Collection
NPG D48785

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  • Thomas McLean (1788-1875), Publisher and dealer. Artist or producer associated with 1058 portraits.
  • Robert Seymour (1798-1836), Illustrator and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 13 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.

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Current affairs

Metropolitan police force of over three thousand paid, uniformed, professional policemen founded by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel.
Roman Catholic Relief Act grants emancipation; Catholics admitted to vote, sit in parliament and hold almost all public offices.

Art and science

Success of George Stephenson's Rocket steam engine at Rainhill Trials.
First London bus service licensed; the new 'box-on-wheels' contributes greatly to the expansion of the suburbs.
Apsley House completed for the Duke of Wellington by Benjamin Wyatt.
First Oxford and Cambridge boat race.

International

Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.

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