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Margaret Nicholson Attempting to Assassinate His Majesty, George III, at the Garden Entrance of St. James's Palace, 2nd August 1786

Robert Dighton · 1786

Robert Dighton: ?–1814

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Robert Dighton, Robert Dighton, Robert Dighton, Robert Dighton

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Margaret Nicholson Attempting to Assassinate His Majesty, George III, at the Garden Entrance of St. James's Palace, 2nd August 1786 — Robert Dighton

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Margaret Nicholson Attempting to Assassinate His Majesty, George III, at the Garden Entrance of St. James's Palace, 2nd August 1786

1786

Yale Center for British Art

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Robert Dighton. Margaret Nicholson Attempting to Assassinate His Majesty, George III, at the Garden Entrance of St. James's Palace, 2nd August 1786. Image credit: Robert Dighton; Source credit: Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.

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Robert Dighton. Margaret Nicholson Attempting to Assassinate His Majesty, George III, at the Garden Entrance of St. James's Palace, 2nd August 1786. Image credit: Robert Dighton; Source credit: Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.