A Canadian winter (BM 1931,1114.349)

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A Canadian winter (BM 1931,1114.349)

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No. 515. A man fallen in water through broken ice in foreground at left (Lord Glenelg), helped by a man standing in water at right, handing him his walking stick to hold onto (Lord Melbourne); a man holding his left hand behind (Lord Russell), supported by a man standing behind at far right (Thomas Spring Rice); they are watched by a group of men (at far left, Lord Brougham, next to him the Duke of Wellington, holding a fishing rod, and John Bull at centre);
a board on a pole in the water is lettered with 'RHS dangerous'. 26 January 1838

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1838
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