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March of intellect

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Mounted on old album paper with a collage of prints and a drawing on the back of one page and newspaper clippings mounted on the back of the other page.

  • Printmaker: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
  • Title: March of intellect [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esqr. del.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London, [approximately May 1829]

Catalog Record

829.05.00.05+ Impression 2

Acquired May 2024

The old and new stagers, or, Steam speed against a mile an hour!

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A steam coach belonging to the Whig Radicals racing and winning with the Tories’ coach and four, driven by the Duke of Wellington.

  • Printmaker: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker.
  • Title: The old and new stagers, or, Steam speed against a mile an hour! [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market, [approximately 1833]

Catalog Record

Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3

Acquired February 2024

A view in Regent’s Park, 1831

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A View in Regents Park. Detailed description below

Steam-driven coaches and carriages and three-wheeled vehicles loaded with well-dressed passengers fill Regent’s Park. The chaos and conjestion fill the park with dust and dark smoke and result in accidents.

  • Printmaker: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker.
  • Title: A view in Regent’s Park, 1831 [graphic].
  • Publication: London : Pubd. Feby. 20, 1828, by S & J. Fuller, at their Sporting Gallery, 34 Rathbone Place, [20 February 1828]

Catalog Record 

828.02.20.01+

Acquired October 2018