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Frontispiece to Useful Knowledge

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A sheet with 25 vignettes in roughly five rows, each with a humorous or satirical scene or a visual pun and each captioned with names of trades, industry, or arts. At the center of the page is a caricature of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham in his long, curl wig and a collar, holding a broom in his left hand, with the caption “The Title page and Index” below. One of many such frontispieces of the period mocking the political and educational movements bringing information and knowledge to the working classes.

  • Title: Frontispiece to Useful Knowledge [graphic] / W. Newman invent.
  • Publication: London: Pubd. by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside,[between 1833 and 1835]
  • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by R. Redman

Catalog Record

833.00.00.18

Acquired December 2023

The triumph of mechanics in 1832

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A view of Walter Hancock’s steam omnibus Enterprise (built for the London and Paddington Steam Carriage Company) which was used to began a regular service between London Wall and Paddington via Islington on 22 April 1833.

  • Printmaker: Day, William, 1797-1845, printmaker.
  • Title: The triumph of mechanics in 1832 [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : W. Day, Lith. to the King, 17 Gate St., [approximately 1833]

Catalog Record

75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3

Acquired February 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

 

W.E. Gladstone collection…..Queen Caroline Affair

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A collection of 256 mostly British satirical prints and broadsides commenting on the scandalous relations between Queen Caroline and King George IV including those commenting on the “Queen Caroline Affair” of 1820, purportedly assembled by William Gladstone and mounted in chronological order in two albums. Many of the prints and broadsides are annotated apparently in W.E. Gladstone’s hand, with the exact month and date of publication and the identities of the person being satirized. Later pencil annotations have been added to mounting sheet along with extracts from the description of the print from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, these later annotations probably added by the 20th-century owner of the volumes, Ernest R. Gee.

  • Creator: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898, collector.
  • Title: [W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the “Queen Caroline Affair”] [graphic].
  • Published: [London], [ca. 1835?]

Catalog Record

Folio 724 835G (Oversize)

Acquired February 2024

The Mufflechop family. No. 3

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Third in a series of twelve comical prints telling the story of Mr. and Mrs. Mufflechop, beginning with their engagement and ending with their first child going off to school.

  • Title: The Mufflechop family. No. 3 [graphic] : The bridal morning.
  • Publication: [London] : Published by T. Pewtress, 67 Newington Causeway, & Ackermannn [sic] & Co., 96 Strand, [approximately 1830]

Catalog Record

830.00.00.170

Acquired December 2023

A specimen of ink lithography from R. Martin’s

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“Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with ‘A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin’s / 124 High Holborn.’; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed ‘Henry R’.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Martin, Robert, active 1770-1838, printmaker, publisher.
  • Title: A specimen of ink lithography from R. Martin’s, 124 High Holborn [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : [R. Martin], [1837]

Catalog Record

837.00.00.43

Acquired November 2023

“When shall we three meet again?”

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Two asses on a bare patch of ground, with the first line of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ below. The play begins with three witches in a storm deciding when to meet next (‘When the hurlyburly’s done, / When the battle’s lost and won’). That there are only two asses in this parody presumably means that the dedicatee of the print, whose name is withheld, is the third.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  • Title: “When shall we three meet again?” [graphic] : Dedicated to – / C.J.G.
  • Publication: [London?] : [G.S. Tregear?], [approximately 1830?]

Catalog Record

830.00.00.169

Acquired September 2023

S. Memoria Paulia Pompilia Benedicta

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A view of a cave, the entrance to which is decorated with a pediment and frieze.

  • Printmaker: Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: S. Memoria Paulia Pompilia Benedicta [graphic] / M.A.T.W., litho., Newlands, 1829.
  • Publication: [Hampshire, England] : [privately printed], [1829]

Catalog Record

829.00.00.119

Acquired June 2023

Frontispiece to the Botanical Magazine’s

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Twenty-six vignettes with scenes punning on various botanical terms.

  • Printmaker: Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: Frontispiece to the Botanical Magazine’s [graphic] / W. Newman invent. del. et lithog.
  • Publication: [London] : Published by James Pattie at his Wholesale Periodical & Caricature Shop, No. 16 High Street, St. Giles’s, [approximately 1834]

Catalog Record

834.00.00.31

Acquired February 2024