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Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green, December 15, 1785., December 15, 1785. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.

Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green, December 15, 1785., December 15, 1785. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.

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Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green, December 15, 1785. eloping couple is carried north towards Scotland in a fast post-carriage or chaise, pursued by the woman's angry father and a posse of riders. A signpost at right points "To Gretna Green". The father urges his horse forward and holds a whip, as the man and woman lean out of the coach windows and brandish pistols. A new restrictive marriage law

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  1. Thomas Rowlandson, attributed to: British: Painter, illustrator, caricaturist, artist
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  1. John Raphael Smith: British; English: Artist, painter, printmaker, publisher
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  1. 59.533.119
  1. DP880229.jpg
  1. 0950032427
  1. 2-773-830
  1. 2773830
  1. 59.533.119

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