Edwin Hughes passing the Royal Exchange, City of London Size:XL: 100 x 50cm Sir Gilbert Talbot (c1606-1695) was

Sir Gilbert Talbot (c1606-1695) was the first to hold the office after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660

A smug lawyer in a lace shirt about to eat an oyster while giving a half-shell to two miserable looking men

who was murdered there

View of the south front of the Bank of England with a street scene and horse-drawn carriages

It was introduced the following year to England by Denis Johnson

Edwin Hughes passing the Royal Exchange, City of London Size:XL: 100 x 50cm Sir Gilbert Talbot (c1606-1695) wasEdwin Hughes passing the Royal Exchange, City of London, 1847. Hughes was the manager of a circus called 'Hughes' Mammoth Equestrian Establishment'. He rode in 'The Burmese State Carriage Drawn by Elephants' at the head of the procession that promoted the arrival of the circus in town.