To be drawn in Guildhall, in one day

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Printed handbill; woodcut illustration of ‘The Grand Hotel’ positioned in the center, with letterpress text above and below.
On verso: half page woodcut illustration of a hay-maker in front of a grand house; below, advertising poem for the lottery, entitled ‘The Hay-Maker.’

  • Title: To be drawn in Guildhall, in one day, Tuesday the 26th this month, the Grand City of London Lottery for Freehold Houses : discharged of Land-Tax, and valued at upwards of £100,000 in capital prizes.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1808]

Catalog Record

File 66 808 T627

Acquired March 2024

 

Bull bamboozled both ways

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Wellington (as Constable of the Tower of London) holds a pistol to the head of John Bull, as Henry Goulburn (Chancellor of the Exchequer) harangues Bull from the other side, forcing John to reach into his pockets to pay for the rebuilding of the Tower of London, seen burning in the background.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  • Title: Bull bamboozled both ways – robbed in one department, and burnt out in another [graphic] / C.J.G.
  • Publication: London : Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, [after 30 October 1841]

Catalog Record

841.10.30.01++

Acquired February 2024

La taverne anglaise

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Interior view of an English tavern, with two men dining at a table in the left foreground (their dogs beside them looking up at the food) and another man reading a newspaper at a table to the right. A fourth man stands in the right background, his back to the viewer, looking out a window. A waiter carries a plate of food from the left.

  • Title: La taverne anglaise [graphic].
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Martinet, et presentement chez Basset Md. d’Estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, No. 64, [not before 1806]

Catalog Record

806.00.00.55

Acquired April 2024

The festival of wit; or, Small talker

printed text

  • Title: The festival of wit; or, Small talker : being a collection of bon mots, anecdotes, &c., of the most exalted characters / procured and selected by G— K—, summer resident at Windsor.
  • Edition: The fifteenth edition, with considerable additions.
  • Publication: London : Printed for M. Smith; and, by the Editor’s permission, sold by the booksellers in Fleetstreet, Piccadilly, and Paternoster Row, M,DCC,LXXXIX.[1789]

Catalog Record

761 F418

Acquired December 2023

The Yorkshire memorandum book

printed text

  • Title: The Yorkshire memorandum book; or, Daily journal, for the year 1796. : Containing ruled writing-paper, for the purpose of keeping accounts of receipts, disbursements, appointments, &c. Also the following useful particulars: I. Members of the Corporation of York. II. Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of York … XXII. Racing calendar, containing an account of the races for legal prizes in Great Britain in the year 1795.
  • Publication: York : Printed and sold by W. Blanchard; also sold by Mr. Richardson, under the Royal-Exchange, London; and by the booksellers of York &c. &c. &c., [1796]

Catalog Record

145 Yo65 1795

Acquired December 2023

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César…

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Portrait of d’Eon, nearly half-length, in profile to the right; wearing a dress and cap over their hair, including a medal; in an oval.

  • Printmaker: Le Beau, Pierre Adrien, 1748- printmaker.
  • Title: Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée, Déon de Beaumont, née à Tonnerre en 1728 [graphic] : a été Avocat au Parlement, Censeur Royal, Capitaine de Dragons, Chevalier de St. Louis, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de France a la Cour d’Angleterre / Desrais del. ; Le Beau sc.
  • Publication: A Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [1780s?]

Catalog Record

Portraits D418 no. 2

Acquired February 2024

From the West Indies

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“Five passengers sit together on a bench against the side of a ship, all but a small boy, seemingly a mulatto, manifesting misery or resignation. The others (left to right) are a woman shrouded in black except for her chin, a planter in a long coat and broad-brimmed hat, his wife’s arm through his. A fat and hideous negress, awkwardly asleep. The deck is level.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Artist: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist.
  • Title: From the West Indies.
  • Publication: [England?] : [publisher not identified], [early 20th century?]

Catalog Record

900.00.00.02

Acquired February 2024

Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects

frontispiece

Leaf [1], title page plate; leaves [2]-[29] with plates numbered 1-36 with scenes cottages and views of rural areas; leaves [30]-[34] with plates 37-44 with images of allegorical and mythical figures; leaf [35] with plate numbered 45, a woman with a tub; leaf [36] with plates 46-47 two men in profile; leaf [37] with plate 47, a portrait of “T.K. [that is, Thomas Kirgate] Painted & etch’d by EE. Finish’d by I. Hall”; leaf [38] with plates 49-50 with classical motifs, cherubs and scrollwork; leaf [39] with plate 51, sea creatures and syrens.
Many plates signed “E.E.’ and dated 1784-1790.

  • Printmaker: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, printmaker.
  • Title: Collection of views and studies after nature with other subjects / designed and etched by Edward Edwards Associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1790.
  • Manufacture: [1794].

Catalog Record

Quarto 75 Ed96 794

Acquired December 2023

The triumph of mechanics in 1832

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A view of Walter Hancock’s steam omnibus Enterprise (built for the London and Paddington Steam Carriage Company) which was used to began a regular service between London Wall and Paddington via Islington on 22 April 1833.

  • Printmaker: Day, William, 1797-1845, printmaker.
  • Title: The triumph of mechanics in 1832 [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : W. Day, Lith. to the King, 17 Gate St., [approximately 1833]

Catalog Record

75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3

Acquired February 2024

Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem

frontis & title page

  • Title: Eloisa in deshabille : a satirical poem / by the late Professor Porson ; to which are added The modern fine gentleman, Modern fine Lady, Curtain lectures, and the squire and the parson.
  • Edition: Second edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall, 1819.
  • Manufacture: [London] : M. Brown, printer, 86, St. Martin’s Lane

Catalog Record

53 P81 819

Acquired December 2023