File 72 827M
Acquired October 2024
File 66 816 T627
Acquired October 2024
Broadside issued in Rome around 1790 by the antiquary Pietro Paolo Montagnani, advertising engravings by Sir Robert Strange (1721-1792) after the Italian masters.
Notice printed at bottom describing other works sold by the printer Montagnani, including engravings after some of the most renown artists of the day.
File 72 M758 790+
Acquired November 2024
File 66 818 T132
Acquired October 2024
Broadside advertising a menagerie of human and animal curiosities from the Caribbean and South America.
Also advertising … “Likewise the much admired curiosity the spotted Indian Youth [John Bobey], born of Black parents in Jamaica, … Likewise the surprising animal the armadillo, or real hog in armour …
File 63 795 N338
Acquired May 2024
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