London to Brighton Emancipation Run mart 'A Recorder on his pilgrimage'

'A Recorder on his pilgrimage'

Proposed plan for the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666

Brew house belonging to Clowes

A satire linking the cult of Vitruvius (which deduces laws of composition and canons of beauty from the measurements of ancient columns and statues) with the preposterous hairdos of the beau monde

The other holds a lance and a coat of arms

London to Brighton Emancipation Run mart 'A Recorder on his pilgrimage'London to Brighton Emancipation Run, 1896. A huge crowd gathered on the street. In Britain in the 1890s, the law still required motor vehicles to be preceded by a pedestrian carrying a red flag to warn other road users, which effectively restricted the vehicles' speed to 4 mph. A number of pioneer motor car enthusiasts campaigned actively to have the law altered. In 1896 the Locomotives on Highways Act came into force and the preceding pedestrian was