Private play. Thursday, June 27th, 1822

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Printed card advertising a Regency private theatrical performance. A location of London is suggested by the identity of one of the performers. “Mrs. Weippart,” Penelope Weippert, née Blane (-1846), wife of John Michael Weippart (1775-1831), harpist, was a professional actress connected with the Theatre Royal on the Strand.
Signed at the end: Stage carpenter, Mr. Riordan.

 

  • Title: Private play. Thursday, June 27th, 1822. An occasional address to be delivered by Captain Hill. Foot’s farce of The liar … Colman’s farce of Blue devils … The entertainment to be concluded with supper and quadrilles.
  • Publication: [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1822]

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File 66 822 P961

Acquired November 2022

The Wykeham or Winchester Tower. North west view

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View of Winchester Tower, Windsor Castle, from the north west; the Norman Gate in the background on the left; trees below the tower in the foreground.

  • Printmaker: Kernot, J. H., printmaker.
  • Title: The Wykeham or Winchester Tower. North west view [graphic] : part of the repairs, alterations and improvements of Windsor Castle, in the reigns of King George IV, King William IV, and Queen Victoria / Mich. Gandy, del. ; Sir Jeffry Wyatville, architect ; engraved by J.H. Kernot.
  • Edition: [Proof].
  • Publication: [London] : [John Weale], [1841]

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Topos B513 no. 1+

Acquired August 2022

Grotto of Neptune

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Interior view of Neptune’s Grotto, the stalactite cave near Alghero on Sardinia that was discovered by fisherman in the eighteenth century and became a popular tourist site.

  • Printmaker: Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: Grotto of Neptune [graphic] / M.A.T.W., litho., Newlands, 1829.
  • Publication: [Hampshire, England] : [privately printed], [1829]

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829.00.00.116

Acquired September 2022

Hampstead-Wells, or, Directions for the drinking of those waters

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  • Author: Soame, John, -1738.
  • Title: Hampstead-Wells, or, Directions for the drinking of those waters … : with an appendix, relating to the original of springs in general … / by John Soame M.D.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the author ; and sold by F. Clay, and D. Browne, 1734.

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646 734 So676

Acquired February 2022

Queries, Lascars and Chinese : manuscript

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Taken as part of a parliamentary investigation into the living conditions of ‘Lascars and Chinese’ was begun in 1814 An account of the responses to fifteen Asian and Chinese seamen of the East India Company living in appalling conditions at Shadwell in the East End of London. , which produced a Report from a Committee on Lascars and Other Asiatic Seamen in 1816. As part of their investigation, a number of questions required answering; fifteen ‘queries’ were put forward by the committee, with one of their clerks dispatched to Shadwell to receive answers. Thirteen of the questions are answered here.

  • Title: Queries, Lascars and Chinese : manuscript.
  • Production: London, 1814

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LWL Mss Vol. 275

Acquired August 2022

At Mr. Christopher Towles, in High-Street

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  • Author: Towle, Christopher.
  • Title: At Mr. Christopher Towles, in High-Street, in Coventry, and at Miss Towles, in Penny-Farthing-Street, in Oxford. Young ladies are genteely boarded, and taught … Mr. Towle, teaches all sorts of English, French, Italion [sic], and Flemish, slow and quick dances … Signed by me Christopher Towle.
  • Published: Newport-Pagnell : Printed by B. Leverett …, [1783]

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File 659 783T

Acquired June 2022

The sixth day of the trial of the late Queen Caroline

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“The interior of the House of Lords, crowded with nobles in the benches and galleries on either side, attending the trial of Queen Caroline for adultery with Pergami, her Italian secretary; George IV stands, hands on hips, in the left gallery, the editors of the Times and Courier lean over the front bench below it, Robert Gifford, attorney general, stands in front of them holding a finger to his chin thoughtfully while Spinetti interprets for a witness, Majocchi, at the bar, behind which Tyrwhitt, Long and Castlereagh, sit sifting papers to the left of the Queen’s solicitor and Denman, who takes a paper from Henry Brougham, the Queen sits to the right in front of the bar, Earl Grey stands in the right aisle, pointing with his right arm towards the witness, and the artist is shown standing with a folio under his arm on the far right.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Hayter, George, Sir, 1792-1871, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: The sixth day of the trial of the late Queen Caroline in the House of Lords, August the twenty third, 1820 [graphic] / GHayter invt., pinxit, et incidit, 1823.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1823]

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Drawer 823.00.00.28+

Acquired May 2022

The captive

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musical scoremusical score

For voice and piano; on two staves with interlinear words

  • Creator: Percy, John, 1749-1797.
  • Title: The captive / said to be written by Maria Antoniette Queen of France in the temple after the execution of Louis the XVIth ; (translated from the original) … ; the music compos’d by Mr. Percy.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed for the author, No. 13 Tavistock Street, Bedford Square, [approximately 1793]

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File 74 793 P431+

Acquired April 2022

A letter to the Right Honourable the Lady V—ss V—

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Letter to the Right Honourable the Lady Vicountess Vane

  • Title: A letter to the Right Honourable the Lady V—ss V—, occasioned by the publication of her memoirs in The adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
  • Publication: London : Printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, with Temple-Bar, 1751.

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53 V249 751

Acquired June 2022