A Summer Day in Hyde Park 1858 49.8 making this guide an essential

making this guide an essential resource for both Londoners and visitors alike

These portraits of leading society figures are juxtaposed with a crowd of caricatured Londoners

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with boats and barges in foreground

A Summer Day in Hyde Park 1858 49.8 making this guide an essentialA Summer Day in Hyde Park. Oil on canvas. General view of the park with the north east corner of the Serpentine in the Summer. Among the figures shown are, from left to right: a gentleman reading a newspaper containing the latest report of the Indian Mutiny, a child in a perambulator, a soldier leaning over the back of a park bench and talking to the child's mother and a country couple. Exhausted tourists, can be seen seated left of centre, they have