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.
75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Acquired February 2024
Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon was a maker of stays who was granted a patent in 1801.
File 66 825 G439
Acquired July 2023
“Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with ‘A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin’s / 124 High Holborn.’; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed ‘Henry R’.”–British Museum online catalogue.
837.00.00.43
Acquired November 2023
Printed trade card advertising gambling at an EO table.
File 66 780 Al444
Acquired November 2023
An illustrated advertising handbill for Thomas Haines’s fly waggons and fly vans, running from the Blossoms Inn in the City of London to the Royal Hotel Yard, Cheltenham. Illustrated with a vignette at head of a covered fly waggon driven by two men; and a vignette at foot of a fly van with driver at front and armed coachman at rear.
File 66 824 T457+
Acquired August 2023
A classical ruined building with Doric columns, similar to the Temple of Poseidon at Paestum, is depicted; Brown’s credentials are inscribed on a chunk of masonry in the foreground.
File 66 825 R662
Acquired October 2023
Advertising sheet, printed on both sides. The recto promotes two of John Bell’s newspapers; the verso contains an advertisement for Price & Gosnell, Perfumers to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.
File 66 817 P831
Acquired November 2023
Quarto handbill, illustrated with a coat of arms at top; all within a thick mourning border.
File 56 C47 817W
Acquired July 2023
A lithographically printed advertisement for G. Wooll of Hastings, showing a view of the town. Wooll was also a printer and publisher who issued local views of Hastings and Rye as individual prints and bound collections.
File 63 823 G1
Acquired January 2023
Broadside advertising an ascent by Sieur Krous involving balloons in the form of Henry IV of France and “a number of wild animals”, which would perform an “aerial chace, or hunt in the air”.
File 53 K93 815
Acquired January 2023