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FLO4678642: A suit of cuirassier's armour at the time of the Restoration, 1650. Leather, helmet, pauldrons and brassarts of blue steel, buff coat, gambado boots and spurs, sword in fringed baudrick on a sash, rifle on a buff belt. In the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick 1650. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
LSE4085450: Cardboard characters of the French Revolution, 18th century. From left to right: “” Terrorist Jacobin exalting Marat's diary, Patriote Enrage shouting that the aristocrats and the rich must be killed, Terrorist reading a diary discontesting about what it contains, Jacobin reflecting on how to govern France and Terrorist in Robespierre's time pays to provoke quarrels and arrests “”. Work of the Lesueur brothers (18th century). Simile College, Lesueur Brothers, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images