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Full length studio portrait of General Francis Rawdon Chesney standing in military uniform

having cast off its sheep's clothing to reveal the skin of the wolf

The Fleetway House

Charles James Fox makes a speech in the House of Commons

Pictured is an old man balancing onions on his shoulder

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American author mb-width 3558 Full length studio portrait ofJames Fenimore Cooper (1789 1851), American author, 19th century (1908). Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is perhaps best known for his novel The Last of the Mohicans. From The Story of the White House, volume I, by Esther Singleton, published by Hodder and Stoughton (London, 1908).