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To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, this portrait of the giraffe

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“A giraffe in a field on a riverbank, lead by a man, wearing a top hat, coat and waistcoat; two cattle resting behind at left.”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Title: To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, this portrait of the giraffe accompanied by his present keeper taking an airing at Cumberland Lodge near Meadow Pond, is by gracious permission dedicated by His Majesty’s most devoted faithful & very humble servant, A.B. Van Worrell
  • Creator: Worrell, Abraham Bruiningh van, 1787- printmaker
  • Published: London, 1827

Catalog Record

827.00.00.64+

Acquired July 2024

The British farmer’s cyclopaedia

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  • Author: Potts, Thomas, 1778-1842.
  • Title: The British farmer’s cyclopaedia, or, Complete agricultural dictionary … / Embellished with forty-two engravings.
  • Publication: London : Printed by W. Flint for Scatcherd and Letterman, Ave-maria-Lane, and M. Jones, No. 1 Paternoster-Row, 1807.

Catalog Record

69 807 P871

Acquired June 2020

 

Bengal troops on the line of march : a panaoramic sketch

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  • Printmaker: Ludlow, William Andrew.
  • Title: Bengal troops on the line of march : a panaoramic sketch / by an officer of that army [i.e. Capt. Ludlow].
  • Published: [London] : Day and Haghe’s Zincy, [1850?]

Catalog Record

Folio 81 835 L945

Acquired November 2017