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  • Poets: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Bust of Abraham Cowley in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London. Etching with engraving.
  • Bust of Abraham Cowley in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London. Etching with engraving by J. Cole.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.
  • Poets composing verse under the influence of gases specific to particular genres, analogous to laughing gas. Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
  • Entrance to Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey showing the busts of John Dryden, Ben Johnson, Abraham Cowley and others. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. Pugin, 1811.
  • Six poets: Robert Montgomery, John Keats, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.
  • Fame, with a laurel wreath, hovering among clouds: beneath her are four portraits of poets in ovals. Engraving by R. Slann, 1799, after R. Smirke.
  • Amusing Productions present Lighthouse poets : Tuesday 27th July 1992, 7.30 pm : readings by Tomm Gunn, John Heath-Stubbs, Maureen Duffy, Jeremy Reed, Clive Wilmer introduced by Brenda Dean / London Lighthouse.
  • Amusing Productions present Lighthouse poets : Tuesday 27th July 1992, 7.30 pm : readings by Tomm Gunn, John Heath-Stubbs, Maureen Duffy, Jeremy Reed, Clive Wilmer introduced by Brenda Dean / London Lighthouse.
  • Head of Alcaeus or another poet
  • Head of Alcaeus or another poet
  • The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • James Woodhouse, shoemaker and poet. Etching, 1765.
  • An eye; according to Lavater, belonging to a German poet. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Portrait of J.P.P. Wolcot, doctor, satirist and poet. Head and shoulders.
  • A madman designated as the poet Nathaniel Lee in Bethlem Hospital. Mezzotint by J. Watts, 1778.
  • A prosperous cobbler in Grub Street recommends his shop to a hungry poet. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808.
  • The distressed poet is visited in his abode by an angry milkmaid collecting outstanding money. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.
  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.
  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.
  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.
  • The historie of foure-footed beastes. : Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / By Edward Topsell.