“Portrait after Reynolds (?); standing almost half-length to right beside a bust, eyes to front, hat under his left arm and his hand inside his coat.”–British Museum online catalogue
Portraits T753He no.1+
Acquired June 2021
Two diaries kept by Margaret Emma Caldwell, beginning at the age of 20, in which she records the books she read, contemporary events including the war wtih Napoleon, her social life, opinions and emotions, the people she encountered, and the historic events she lived through in the second decade of the nineteenth century.
LWL Mss vol. 268
75 H67 S818
Acquired June 2021
Manuscript, with entries overwritten multiple times in multiple hands, records farms and parcels of land between Bradford and Harrogate, now in West Yorkshire, relating at least in part to lands owned by Francis Lindley Wood, 2nd baronet (1771-1846). It opens with an alphabetical list of tenants’ names, then follows with a series of sketches of the corresponding farms and fields, with annotations and owner’s names. Among the thirty small plans and illustrations, most of which depict unidentified farming settlements, is a colored sketch of the country house and estate of Bolling (or Bowling) Hall, with the owner John Sturges’s name written beside it. At the end of the book are ten further pages of farming notes, including treatment for cattle, the last dated 1859.
LWL Mss vol. 263
Acquired June 2021
“Portrait, half-length, seated to front, with head turned to look to left, his right forearm leaning on a table, holding a telescope; wearing armour, and folded fabric draped over his right shoulder; curtain at left; after Joshua Reynolds (Mannings 1762).”–British Museum online catalogue, description of scratched-letter state.
Portraits T753G no.1
Acquired June 2021
Printed in two columns with a woodcut at the head of each column, and playing cards surrounding text.
File 68 837 P453+
Acquired June 2021
“Portrait of George Townshend standing three-quarter length slightly to left and leaning his right elbow on pedestal beside curtain, eyes to front, wearing uniform, his own hair curled, holding paper in his right hand labelled ‘A Bill Intituled, An Act for the Better Order of the Militia Forces.”–British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Portraits T753G no.2
Acquired June 2021
Cards for a Regency parlor game that take the form of question and answer. The cards printed in black are questions from a man to a woman, her replies are the red printed set.
66 800 C766
Acquired June 2021
“A mounted officer of the Norfolk rangers, his blued sword drawn, a Tarleton helmet on his head, in green uniform with black facings and silver lace, a sword-belt across his chest and a sash about his waist, other members of the corps exercising in the fields beyond, the colours of the regiment below.”–British Museum online catalogue.
799.12.01.01
Acquired June 2021
“Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1764); Standing whole-length wearing armour with his hand resting on a table, behind him a tent and cavalry.”–British Museum online catalogue.
Drawer Portraits T753G no.5
Acquired June 2021