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Articles for a cock match

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An engraved broadside with a vignette of a cock match at the top.

  • Title: Articles for a cock match [graphic].
  • Publication: London : Printed and sold by Reginald Heber, publisher of the List of Horse Races, Henry Bennet Junr. and Harwen Martin, [1750s]

Catalog record 

750.00.00.88+

Acquired September 2018

Desespoir des ennemis de la France….

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Desespoir des ennemis de la France....

A political cartoon with 42 bust caricatures of members of a conspiracy discovered by no. 1 “La Vigilance du Gouvernement Français”, a rooster or the Gallic cock, depicted at top center, holding “Correspondance de Mr. Draque – Ambassadeur de la Cour Britannique &c. &c.”

  • Title: Desespoir des ennemis de la France a la découverte de leurs complots.
  • Publication: [France?] : [publisher not identified], [1804]

Catalog Record

804.00.00.20++

Acquired March 2018

The itinerant chancellor

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Four rows of designs with one to three designs in each, individually titled.

  • Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist.
  • Title: The itinerant chancellor [graphic] ; [and 9 other designs] / C.J. Grant invent., del. & lith.
  • Publication: London : Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square …, [1 October 1834]
  • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by Dean & Munday …

Catalog Record 

834.10.01.01+

Acquired November 2017