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The Holy Alliance unmasked

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Satire depicting the The Quintuple Alliance (Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, Louis Antoine de Bourbon, duc d’Angoulême and the Duke of Wellington) debating the question of the Spanish succession and French intervention in Spain at the 1822 Congress of Verona. Losers in the negotiation are depicted as tiny doll-like figures trampled under the table. Masks are scattered on the floor and animal symbolism includes a bear, a monkey and a pair of bulldogs.

  • Printmaker: Purcell, E. (Edward), printmaker.
  • Title: The Holy Alliance unmasked [graphic] / E. Purcell.
  • Publication: [London] : Published Feb. 1823 by J. Dickinson, 114 New Bond St., [February 1823]

Catalog Record

823.02.00.01+

Acquired April 2023

 

G. Wooll, carver & gilder, looking glass, picture frame maker

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A lithographically printed advertisement for G. Wooll of Hastings, showing a view of the town. Wooll was also a printer and publisher who issued local views of Hastings and Rye as individual prints and bound collections.

 

  • Printmaker: Tyller, G., printmaker.
  • Title: G. Wooll, carver & gilder, looking glass, picture frame maker, fancy stationer, printseller, &c. &c., High Street, Hastings [graphic] : Rich & plain cornices, chimney & pier glasses, box & swing ditto, gold bordering for rooms. Drawings lent to copy. Glasses polished & silvered. Old paintings cleaned and repaired. Drawing materials of every description. Screens, screen handles, embosed [sic] drawing boards, carde, papers & plain do. / drawn on stone by G. Tyller [or Tykes?], April 1823.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed by Simonau London, [1823]

Catalog Record

File 63 823 G1

Acquired January 2023

Holyrood Chapel

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Interior view of the ruins of Holyrood Abbey, looking down the nave towards a wall with two arched windows. The building is mostly intact but without a roof; a broken column is seen in the center foreground. Figures with torches stand beneath the windows and additional figures are visible through an arched passageway on the right. The moon in the sky above is illuminated when the print is viewed in front of a strong light.

 

  • Title: Holyrood Chapel [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Published by Reeves and Sons, Cheapside; W. Morgan, 64, Hatton Garden; T. Fisher, 1, Hanway Street, Oxford Street; J. Reynolds, 174, Strand; and W. Wilson, Jun., 16, King William Street, City, [approximately 1840]

Catalog Record

830.00.00.165

Acquired October 2022

Sepolcro di Plautio

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View of tomb of the Plauzia family, near Tivoli, Italy

 

  • Printmaker: Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: Sepolcro di Plautio [graphic] / M.A.T. Whitby, litho., Newlands, 1826.
  • Publication: [Hampshire, England] : [privately printed], [1826]

Catalog Record

829.00.00.115

Acquired September 2022

Fish

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A full-length depiction of a female fishmonger composed of fish: her hat is a lobster, her dress a large fillet of a angel (?) fish, her arms composed of various other fish, whole or parts. Behind her a barrel of oysters on a wooden stool.

 

  • Title: Fish [graphic] / G. Spratt del.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, 1830.
  • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by G.E. Madeley, Wellington St., Strand

Catalog Record

830.00.00.166

Acquired June 2022

Grotto of Neptune

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Interior view of Neptune’s Grotto, the stalactite cave near Alghero on Sardinia that was discovered by fisherman in the eighteenth century and became a popular tourist site.

  • Printmaker: Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: Grotto of Neptune [graphic] / M.A.T.W., litho., Newlands, 1829.
  • Publication: [Hampshire, England] : [privately printed], [1829]

Catalog Record

829.00.00.116

Acquired September 2022

Collection of lithographs…relating to Charles Herbert Simpson

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A group of lithographs, handbills and broadsides relating to Christopher Herbert Simpson at Vauxhall Gardens, one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London for two centuries. The collection covers the latter half of his career, and his legacy after his death in 1835.

Title: Collection of lithographs and printed ephemera relating to Charles Herbert Simpson, 1831-1842

Catalog Record

File 53 Si613 830

Acquired July 2022

A cavalry battle

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“Cavalry in battle; a mounted soldier shooting a man off his horse in foreground, a fallen horse and rider at his feet; battle raging in background, a tower to the right, and in distance on left a bridge.”–British Museum online catalogue

  • Printmaker: Smith, Charles Hamilton, printmaker.
  • Title: [A cavalry battle] [graphic] / C.H.S.
  • Publication: [London] : Printed from stone by D. Redman, [between 1810 and 1818]

Catalog Record

810.00.00.84

Acquired April 2022

John Broughton, prize fighter

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“Copy of a man with shaven head (James Figg) in casual dress, holding quarter-staff in his right hand and round-brimmed hat in the left, standing whole length to front in a landscape, with head tilted to right, glancing towards the viewer, smiling with lips parted; after a painting by Hogarth in a private collection.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Ross, F., active 1828-1849, printmaker.
  • Title: John Broughton, prize fighter [graphic] : from the original picture (of the same size) by William Hogarth, in the collection of Henry Ralph Willett, Esqre. of Merly House, in the County of Dorset / W. Hogarth ; F. Ross.
  • Publication: London : Published for the proprietor March 25th, 1842, by W. & G. Smith, 24 Lisle Street, Leicester Square, [25 March 1842]
  • Manufacture: [London] : C. Graf, lith. to Her Majesty

Catalog Record

842.00.00.07+

Acquired December 2021

A picture of futurity

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Grey stands in the center pulling back a curtain on the large painting (right) addressing the three men (probably Peel, Cumberland, and Wellington) who look on in amazement. Grey says, “Gentlemen this is a fine color’d picture representing Futurity. The idea of which was concieved [sic] by an injured people and painted by a new and promising artist. Reform.” Reading from the left Peel looks at himself in the painting seated in a chair at a loom, “Why if there a’nt me at a spinning Jenny.” Cumberland, hat flying off, looking at himself depicted in the painting on his backside, “And me dying on a dunghill.” And Wellington closest to the painting that depicts him as a wounded soldier holding a broom and begging with his cap in hand, observes “And me begging.” In the painting is a tower with the British and French flags the former with the year 1814, referencing the Wellington’s successful campaign to end the Peninsular War.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist.
  • Title: A picture of futurity [graphic] / C.J. Grant, d. & sc.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. by G. Tregear, Cheapside, May 1831.

Catalog Record

831.05.00.02+

Acquired March 2022