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Description:
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This is plate 3 from Ackermann’s Microcosm of London (1808–11), in which Rowlandson supplied the figures for Pugin’s settings. The Microcosm states that ‘the ... print is a correct interior view of THE BOARD ROOM OF THE ADMIRALTY, with its appropriate decorations of globes, books, maps, &c. The lords commissioners are represented as sitting at the table, and may be naturally supposed engaged in some business … of more real importance to this country, than any other subject [and] also a matter of infinite importance to all Europe.’ The boardroom still exists almost unchanged in the old Admiralty, in Whitehall.
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