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' Inscribed in pencil lower left '1729'

The Royal Closet in St James's Palace

The mother and father are consolling themselves with a bottle of alcohol

Plate headed 'Plants found in New Holland'

Four-and-Twenty years-Sir

William McKinley Finish:none ' Inscribed in pencil lowerWilliam McKinley, 25th President of the United States, 19th century. McKinley (1843 1901) was born in Niles, Ohio. He became a lawyer and, in 1877, entered Congress as a Republican, becoming a leading tarriff expert. Elected President in 1896 and for a second term four years later, he was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, on 6th September 1901 and died on 14th September.