Key plate to the print of the Death of the Earl of Chatham, in the Upper Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, 1778, with 55 members identified.
791.12.26.01 Boxed
Acquired October 2023
145 C736 794
Acquired July 2023
“A fat squat and ugly woman sits on a sofa next a tall dandified officer (right) who makes his address, his hand on his breast. She turns to him complacently, her feet awkwardly resting on a stool. Their two dogs face each other, each with shape and manner corresponding with its owner. Two appropriate pictures are on the wall: Bank of England (left) and Seige of Acre (right).”–British Museum online catalogue.
823.01.10.02
Acquired September 2023
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of a mourning Britannia and British Lion in front of Princess Charlotte‘s tomb, which is located under a weeping willow and is adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Sixteen lines of verse are engraved at the bottom, signed “J. Thompson”.
File 56 C47 817T
Acquired July 2023
A clergyman in bands and gown, his hat on the pavement, squares up to a watchman holding a lantern and stick, his fists raised. He has evidently knocked out one watchman already, who lies on the ground, wig dislodged and still touching his lantern, while a third approaches from the left. Possibly from a series featuring a pugnacious parson’s brushes with the law.
778.09.14.01+
Acquired September 2023
A fashionable couple walk on a country road past a cottage. A woman carrying a small child and carrying bags on her back approach them from behind and one of her small children on foot doffs his cap and reaches out his hand for alms. Another small child, also cap in hand, hangs onto his mother’s skirts. Also on the road, heading in the opposite direction is a wagon filled with recruits and soldiers and one woman holding onto a large trunk.
812.00.00.130
Acquired September 2023
A mock theater advertisement satirizing the controversial election in Weymouth when Prince Ernest Augustus was accused of influencing the election result in favour of the Tories.
File 63 812 Er72
Acquired August 2023
A scene in a kitchen showing a French male cook on his knees beside a cross-looking female cook holding a spatula. In the background, a roaring fire in the hearth with a slab of beef on a spit.
794.03.01.04
Acquired September 2023
“Half-length, directed towards and looking to the left, right arm resting on a slab to the right, chin leaning on her hand; published state.”–British Museum online catalogue.
Portraits B875 no. 1++
Acquired February 2024
A man in Turkish dress smokes a long pipe as he sits on one barrel as he leans on another. A similarly dressed man, seated next to him, holds an axe. Smoke pours from a brass brazier in the foreground while in the background, a woman holding an umbrella over her head rides a camel. While the rider ignores the scene, the camel looks at the scene of the two men.
765.00.00.96+
Acquired February 2024