'Sugar canes' Farmtool Driving a Talbot

Driving a Talbot

represents the useless chaff

the number plate GEN11 had significance in that if you read the number ones as the letter i

The message was that this act was not to be taken as licence for further Fenian activity

c1761-1799

'Sugar canes' Farmtool Driving a TalbotBotanical study of sugar canes. Figures can be seen in the background harvesting the crop. Plate from the book An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China., by John Nieuhoff (London, 1669). John Nieuhoff (1618 1672), Dutch traveller, was appointed steward of the mission to China under Peter van Goyer and Jacob van Keyser, ambassadors of the Dutch East India Company. Original: copperplate