Long faces at Smithfield

description below

Discontent among British merchants and farmers who had enjoyed high prices for their domestic produce during the Revolutionary Wars.

 

  • Printmaker: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker.
  • Title: Long faces at Smithfield. Peace, long faces at the corn-exchange [graphic] / Woodward delin. ; etchd. by Roberts.
  • Publication: London : Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn, [1802]

Catalog record

802.00.00.34+

Acquired September 2020

Account of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress

title page

  • Author: Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress.
  • Title: Account of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress : with the nature and views of the institution ; also the plan and regulations, a list of subscribers, and an appendix, containing some of the most interesting cases.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the Society by W. Marchant, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, 1814.

Catalog record

63 814 So678

Acquired September 2020

 

A companion to the London Museum and Pantherion

title page

  • Author: Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849, author.
  • Title: A companion to the London Museum and Pantherion : containing a brief description of upwards of fifteen thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities, and productions of the fine arts; now open for public inspection in the Egyptian Temple, Picadilly, London / by Wm. Bullock.
  • Edition: The thirteenth edition.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the proprietor, by William and Samuel Graves, 66 Cheapside, 1812.
  • Manufacture: London : W. and S. Graves, printers, 66, Cheapside.

Catalog Record

646 812 B938

Acquired September 2020

Sailors conversing on horseback

description below

“Social satire; two sailors on horseback, one with a pipe in his hatband on a small white horse with a spotted handkerchief on a stick attached to its bridle, the other smoking a pipe on a large brown horse; they ask each other how their journeys on their horses have been, using language associated with ships, for example: “endeavouring to double the point at Mile-end she fell foul of a dray, and smack she lay me keel upermost in a stinking ditch … I hoisted my pocket handkerchief on her topmast as a sign of distress, which was seen by some comrades at anchor in the moorings. …”.”–British Museum online catalogue.

 

  • Printmaker: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker.
  • Title: Sailors conversing on horseback [graphic] / Woodward del. ; etch’d by Roberts.
  • Publication: London : Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn, [ca. 1803]

Catalog Record

803.00.00.52+

Acquired September 2020

The man of pleasure’s pocket-book

title page

  • Title: The man of pleasure’s pocket-book, or, The bon vivant’s vade mecum, for the year 1781, being the universal companion in every line of taste, gallantry, and haut ton … / by a member of the Club of Savoir-Vivres.
  • Publication: London : Printed for S. Bladon, No. 13, Paternoster-Row, [1780]

Catalog Record

145 M266 1780

Acquired September 2020

 

An account of the signals made use of at Bambrough Castle

description below

Broadside, with engravings of Bamburgh Castle at head, and caption title

 

  • Author: Lord Crewe’s Charity.
  • Title: An account of the signals made use of at Bambrough Castle in the county of Northumberland in case ships or vessels are perceived in distress, and of the charitable institutions established there for their assistance and relief, now published by the direction of the Trustees of Nathanael late Lord Crewe, with the approbation of the Master, pilots, and seamen of the Trinity-house, in Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed and sold by T. Saint ; and sold by J. Wheble … London, [1771?]

Catalog Record

File 63 771 Ac172++

Acquired September 2020