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  • Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) with a copy of his 'Odes' in his pocket, shrinks from an approaching gentleman with a paper labelled 'pension'. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1787.
  • Contributors to Frazer's Magazine, sitting around a dining table, talking, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by D. Maclise [A. Croquis], 1835.
  • Friedrich Schiller. Photograph by Sophus Williams after a painting by E. Hader, 1884.
  • John Dryden, Samuel Garth, John Vanbrugh, and Richard Steele. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Sir G. Kneller.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Complimentary dinner to Mark Twain : Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, Friday June 16th, 1899 / Whitefriars Club.
  • A gathering at Joshua Reynolds's house: Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke among the company. Stipple engraving by W. Walker, 1848, after J.E. Doyle.
  • Philosophers and writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Head of a famous author. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.
  • Five men: Robert Burns, Richard Baxter, Francis Bacon, Judge Blackstone, and James Beattie. Engraving, 1811.
  • Complimentary dinner to Mark Twain : Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, Friday June 16th, 1899 / Whitefriars Club.
  • Five men: Robert Burns, Richard Baxter, Francis Bacon, Judge Blackstone, and James Beattie. Engraving, 1811.
  • Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.
  • Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.
  • John Dryden, Samuel Garth, and Thomas Parnell. Engraving by A. Cardon after Sir G. Kneller, T. Uwins and P. Scheemakers (?).
  • Writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Abbé Guillaume Raynal. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Six portraits of eminent sixteenth century men. Engraving.
  • Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Six men of William III's reign in England. Engraving.
  • William Shakespeare: profile. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Peter Williamson, kidnapped as a child and transported to the American plantations; became traveller and writer. Reproduction of an engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Twenty portraits of famous men. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Six poets: Robert Montgomery, John Keats, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.
  • A doctor giving a diagnosis of tonsillitis to a patient who is an author, the patient replies it will be useful for his next novel. Reproduction of a drawing after Beauchamp, 1927.
  • 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.
  • Complimentary dinner to Mark Twain : Victoria Hall, Hotel Cecil, Friday June 16th, 1899 / Whitefriars Club.