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Father Christmas takes time out from his busy schedule for a quick cigarette break on the roof of a busy West End London store

' With a facsimile signature Davies Gilbert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791

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Sir Horace Mann mb-artistname William Orpen The background is darkSir Horace Mann, 18th century. Caricature of British diplomat Mann with Florence's Duomo in the background. 'Uni se humiliat exaltabitut chi si umilia salta salta'. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).