With two plates after Marcellus Laroon both depicting Quakers, one showing a Quaker man and the second a Quaker woman, both dated 1690.
75 G795 773
Acquired December 2023
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
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 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 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
Vol. 1. A fashionable fop — A fashionable belle / Williams fect. — Royal methodists — Chief pillars of an illustrious house — Gloucestershire glory — Catching a bald coot in an hospital. Vol. 2. The special retainer, or, A patriotic councellor pleading to the point!!! — Foppish attitudes, or, Well known characters no. 1 / Williams fect. — A barristerial duel, or, Who’s sent to Coventry now — The spa fields hunt-er, or A patriot mounted — The life of Cobbett, Plate 1 — The life of Cobbett, Plate 2. Vol. 3. A minister of state trying on his new livery — The life of Cobbett, Plate 3 / Gillray invt. — The life of Cobbett, Plate 4 / Gillray invt. — Suspension of habeas corpus — Castles in the air, or, Villiany rewarded — Traveling by steam. Vol. IV. View of a sea port in Norfolk — How happy I could be with either!! — Beauties of the saloon, a Prime Minister at Covent Garden Theatre — A peace and plenty.!! (Political portraits, no.1) — Two well known officers on full and half pay — A worldly bishop and a godly curate, or, Pillars of the Church.
61 B982
Acquired September 2023
With an engraved vignette, presumably depicting a Magdalen sister, at top. nvitation to dine with the governors of the Whitechapel Magdalen Hospital at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, following a sermon in the chapel of the hospital.
File 66 775 L984+
Acquired December 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
Portrait of d’Eon, nearly half-length, in profile to the left; wearing the full military garb of a Captain of the Dragoons, including epaulets and medals; in an oval.
Portraits D418 no. 1
Acquired February 2024