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Opposition Telegraphs, or The Little Second Sighted Lawyer Giving a True Specimen of Patriotic Information,...

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NRM259570
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Opposition Telegraphs, or The Little Second Sighted Lawyer Giving a True Specimen of Patriotic Information, 21st June 1798 (coloured engraving)
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Gillray, James (1757-1815) / English
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Science Museum, London, UK
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coloured engraving
Date
1798 AD (C18th AD)
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satirising the wilful misinterpretation of the telegraph system during the Napoleonic Wars between French and English; message taken by man representing Morning Chronicle newspaper and Captain Pop'ems receiving same information from Captain Winter and interpreting in a different way;

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