Tag Archives: Engravings

Collection Of Eighteenth Century Visiting Cards

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An album containing 168 visiting cards (fifteen of which were laid in and several of which are duplicates), nine invitations or admission tickets, six trade cards, and two funeral invitations compiled by an unidentified collector, or perhaps collected by Jane Tibbets who signed the front flyleaf. The cards reflect a social circle composed of Members of Parliament and their wives and families, members of the peerage (Countesses of Sefton, Clanbrassill, Harrington, Buckingham; Duchesses of Leinster, of Ancaster; Earl of Bessborough) as well as scientists, and men and women of letters. Also included are tickets to balls (two hosted by the Lord Mayor of London and his wife), a benefit concert for Mr. Lee, and several invitations to card parties. There are also seven trade cards including ones for a French jeweler (Au soleil de diamants) and a milliner in Bath (Minchin’s).

  • Title: Collection of eighteenth century visiting cards, invitations, and trade cards [1776-1899] bulk 1776-1791.

Catalog Record

LWL Mss vol. 290

Acquired May 2024

Blackguardiana: Or, A Dictionary Of Rogues, Baws, Pimps…

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  • Title: Blackguardiana: or, A dictionary of rogues, baws, pimps, whores, pickpockets, shoplifters, mail-robbers, coiners, house-breakers, murderers, pirates, gipsies, mountebanks, &C. &c. : Illustrated with eighteen portraits of the most remarkable professors in every species of villainy. Interspersed with many curious anecdotes, cant terms, flash songs, &c., the whole intended to put society on their guard against depredators; and was picked up by an inhabitant of St. James’s, who was a spectator of a grand scuffle, on a Birth-day night. Copied for the inspection of the curious; and the original ready to be returned (on describing the binding, &c.) to the loser.
  • Author: Caulfield, James, 1764-1826
  • Published: London, 1793?

Catalog Record

78 793 C372

Acquired November 2024

Fort Montague Bank. I promise to pay Mr. John Flag…

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A skit note, proporting to be a banknote, but published from a house in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, known as Fort Montague by linen weaver Thomas Hill and his son 1770-1. Hill, an eccentric, knighted himself and started calling himself governor of the fort, publishing these ‘banknotes’ which were intended as entry tickets for the house. Others started trying to defraud people with them, so the authorities eventually stopped them being printed.

  • Title: Fort Montague Bank. I promise to pay Mr. John Flag or bearer on demand five halfpence. : Value received [blank] 18[blank]. Entd. C. Cannon. For the Governor of Fort Montague & Co., E. Hill
  • Creator: Fort Montague Bank
  • Publication: Knaresborough, approximately 1820

Catalog Record

File 66 820 F736

Acquired June 2024

The South Sea scheme

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“Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps.”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Title: The South Sea scheme
  • Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
  • Published: London, 1751

Catalog Record

Hogarth 751.12.10.01+ Box 200

Acquired October 2024

Collection of prints, broadsides,…relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy

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several views of exterior of Cato Street

A collection of 41 printed items that chronical the 1820 plot to murder the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet, so named for location where the thirteen conspirators meet near Edgware Road in London. The police learned of the plot through an informer, George Edwards, leading to a police trap in which one policeman, Richard Smithers, was killed but the plotters apprehended. The collection includes portraits of the plotters, views of the Cato Street area, broadsides describing the events and others with images and descriptions of the execution of five of the conspirators. Five other conspirators were transported to Australia. A drawing signed “Peter Jackson, July 31, 1960” is a 20th-century view of the exterior of the London building where the conspirators were discovered.

  • Title: Collection of prints, broadsides, and ephemera relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, 1960.

Catalog Record

LWL MSS 52

Acquired January 2024

 

Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi

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With two plates after Marcellus Laroon both depicting Quakers, one showing a Quaker man and the second a Quaker woman, both dated 1690.

  • Author: Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798, printmaker.
  • Title: Figures & heads from the originals of Louthenbourg & Bossi [graphic] / by Ben. Green of X’s [i.e. Christ’s] Hospital.
  • Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1773.

Catalog Record

75 G795 773

Acquired December 2023