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Charles James Blomfield, bishop of London. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1827, after S. Lane.
Lane, Samuel, 1780-1859.Date: May 1827Reference: 45190i- Pictures
Two Italian bandits about to ambush a stagecoach on a mountain pass. Etching by H. Melling, 1854.
Melling, Henry, active 1824-1854.Date: April 10th. 1854Reference: 3162366i- Pictures
Italian bandits robbing a traveller on a mountain pass. Etching by H. Melling, 1854.
Melling, Henry, active 1824-1854.Date: April 10th. 1854Reference: 3162367i- Pictures
Generals and others in the British Army who fought in the Peninsula War, discussing the battle of Vittoria. Wood engraving after F. Bromley after J.P. Knight, ca. 1847.
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881.Date: [1847?]Reference: 2885019i- Pictures
The flight of Francesco Novello di Carrara, Lord of Padua, with his wife Taddea D'Este, from Padua under attack by Milan. Engraving by F. Bacon, 1839, after C.L. Eastlake.
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865.Date: May 1, 1839Reference: 3162375i- Videos
Great cemeteries of the world. Pt. 24, London - Kensal Green.
Date: 2002- Books
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A companion to every place of curiosity and entertainment in and about London and Westminster. Containing, An historical description of London, The River Thames, The Tower of London, London-Bridge, The Monument, The Royal Exchange, The Mansion-House, Guildhall, St. Paul's Cathedral, Salmon's Wax-Work, The British Museum, Westminster Bridge and Abbey, St. James's Park and Palace, The Queen's Palace, Chelsea Hospital, The Winter and Summer Diversions, Woolwich Gun-Park, Greenwich Hospital and Park, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton-Court Palaces and Gardens, Windsor Castle, And of many other Places. With a concise and exact Account of the Curiosities contained in several of them; and Directions for gaining Admittance to each Place. Also the Rates of Coachmen and Watermen from the principal Parts of London to the above Places.
Date: 1767- Books
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A sermon preach'd before the Rt. Honble the Lord-Mayor, aldermen, and the several livery-companies, of the city of London, at the Parish-Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on saturday, September the 28th, 1728. By Henry Becher, A.M. rector of St. James's Duke's place, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, and chaplain to His Lordship.
Becher, Henry, 1702 or 1703-Date: 1728- Pictures
Two fat courtesans sit side by side on a settee with the Duke of Norfolk sitting between them holding their hands as he holds a wine glass in one hand while gazing at one of them. Etching by J. Gillray.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [1830]Reference: 585503i- Pictures
Insects with the heads of humans assail a bee hive as ministerial bees emerge to defend the Treasury bench. Line block after J. Gillray, 1873.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 1873Reference: 603166i- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of Italian and other drawings, Prints, Models, and Casts, Of the late Eminent Mr. Jonathan Richardson, Painter, Deceas'd. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Cock, At his House in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Thursday the 22d of January, 1746-7, and the Seventeen following Nights, (sundays excepted.) The Collection may be view'd at the Place of Sale, on Monday the 10th Instant, and every Day after till the Hour of Sale, which will begin each Night at Five precisely.
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720-1749.Date: 1747]- Pictures
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The first stone and inlaid coins of Holloway prison. Lithograph by C.M. Firth.
Reference: 23526i- Pictures
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The Pope, the devil and the Young Pretender lie prostrate near the coffin of the Duke of Cumberland lined with two rows of lit candles and mourning figures. Engraving by WW. after J.C., 1765.
W. W.Date: [Oct 31 1765]Reference: 581533i- Books
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The unparallel'd impostor: or, the whole life, artifices and forgeries of Japhet Crook, alias Sir Peter Stranger, Bart. With all the proceedings against him. Containing, I. An Account of the several Employments he followed in Hertfordshire (under the Profession of a Quaker) as Brewer, Malster, Grazier, Chapman, Merchant, &c. Of his Marriagees, Amours, Breaking, and Running away. II. Of his Rambles to Ireland, Scotland, and the North of England, the various Pranks he played in all these Places, and of his being taken up during the Preston Rebellion, and defrauding the King's Messenger of a considerable Sum of Money, and afterwards cheating his Widow. III. Of his twice becoming a Bankrupt. His Artifices, to impose on Mr. Hawkins. Copies of his Wife's Last Will and Testament to Him; and his own Will to Mr. Hawkins; in order (as he did) to draw in that Gentleman to leave him his Estate. Also Mr. Hawkins's Will. IV. A Collection of his Original Letters, setting forth his Negotiations with the Dutchess of Kendal, Duke of Somerset, Lord Carlisle, Lord Blessington, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Townshend, General Pepper, Colonel Kempston, Sir John Eyles, and many others.
Moore, James, of Hampstead.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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[A new and accurate survey of the] cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country about it for nineteen miles in length and thirteen in depth, in which is contain'd an exact description of St. James's, Kensington, Richmond, and Hampton-Court palaces, all the main and cross roads, lanes and paths, bye-ways, walls, pales, hedges, hills, vallies, rivers, bridges, ferries, brooks, springs, ponds, woods, heaths, commons, parks, avenues, churches, houses, gardens, &c. This map will be of general use to all persons who have occasion to travel round this metropolis, for business, health or pleasure, and to all curious persons, at home or abroad, published according to act of Parliament 1747; price two guineas in sheets. By John Rocque, surveyor. Begun in 1741, and finished in 1745, and publish'd in 1746, according to act of Parliament. Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii, municipii sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium, delineatio Ichnographica Anno 1741, incohata 1745, absoluta. A Johanne Rocque, topographo. Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Westminster bourg de Southwark, et deleurs environs. Contenant l'espace de dixneus miles, en longeur et de treize en largeurdans la quelle font compris les palais de St. James's, de Kensington, D'Hampton-Court, tous les chemins, sentiers, rivieres, ruisseaux, bacs, ponts, sources, etangs, collines, bois, bruyeres, communes, pares, avenues, eglises, maisons, jardins, &c. Levee tres exactement sur les lieux, et publiee selon un acte de Parlement, En 1747. Par Jean Rocque.
Rocque, John, -1762.Date: [1746]- Books
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An impartial history of the life and reign of our late most gracious sovereign Queen Anne, Of blessed memory; Wherein is contained, An Accurate and Exact Account of the most Memorable Transactions of that incomparable Princess; As also the most Material incidents of the Life of the late Duke of Ormond. In Three Parts; Containing, I. An Account of the most remarkable Civil Transactions of Her Majesty's Reign, particularly Her uniting the two Crowns of England and Scotland, a Work which had been in vain attempted by many of Her Royal Predecessors; together with the most memorable Victories gained by Her Admirals at Sea, as the Reduction of the whole Island of Minorca, the Taking of Gibraltar, and Raising the Siege of that Place, and the rendering the Descent of the Pretender in Scotland ineffectual, without harrassing the People with any extraordinary Levies or Taxes. II. The Transactions of Her Allies, under the Command of the immortal Prince Eugene, and the Generals of the States of the United Provinces. III. The glorious Atchievements of our own immortal Hero, the great Prince and Duke of Marlborough. The Whole Illustrated with a large Variety of whole Sheet Copper-Plates, engraven by the best Hands, representing all the Sea-Fights, Battles, and Sieges in which those Admirals and Generals were concerned. By Paul Chamberlen, Gent.
Chamberlen, Paul.Date: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]- Pictures
The set for fireworks commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: elevation and plan. Etching by G. Vertue, 1749.
Vertue, George, 1684-1756.Date: Drawn, engrav'd and publish'd 5th. of April 1749, according to Act of ParliamentReference: 2970949i- Pictures
Melitta Schmideberg-Klein (1904-1983), her husband Walter Schmideberg, and the families of her mother Melanie Klein and her father Arthur Klein. Photographs and personalia.
Schmideberg, Melitta.Reference: 44394i- Books
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Plan of the Surrey Dispensary, in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for administering advice and medicines to the poor inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, and places adjacent, at the dispensary, or at their own habitations. Instituted in the year 1777.
Surrey Dispensary.Date: 1782- Archives and manuscripts
Letters from various correspondents
Date: 1813-1859Reference: MS.5371Part of: Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph (1791-1865)- Pictures
Princess Charlotte Augusta. Stipple engraving by J. Minasi and T. Landseer, 1818, after J. Minasi.
Minasi, James Anthony, 1776-1865.Date: November 1 1818Reference: 2044996i- Books
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A complete body of ancient geography. By Mons. D'anville, member of the Royal Academy of belles-letters, of the academy of sciences of Petersburg, and secretary to the Great Duke of Orleans. Neatly engraved on thirteen plates. Containing 1. Orbis Romani, pars orientalis. 2. Orbis Romani, pars occidentalis. 3. Orbis veteribus notus. 4. Gallia. 5. Italiæ. 6. Græciæ. 7. Asiæ Minor, et Syriæ. 8. Palæstina. 9. Ægyptus. 10. Britannia Romana, by Mr. Horsley. 11. Græciæ, pars septenrioalis. 12. -pars meridionalis, by Mons. De L'isle. 13. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the British Isles, in an intermediate state, between ancient and modern geography; by Mons. D'Anville. The whole materially improved, by inserting the modern names of places under the ancient.
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourgignon d', 1697-1782.Date: 1795- Ephemera
To the house visitors of the Surrey Dispensary in Union-Street, near St. Margaret's-Hill, Southwark : gentlemen, I recommend... believing... to be a proper object of this charity...day of... 178.
Surrey Dispensary.Date: [1780?]- Books
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A complete body of ancient geography. By Mons. D'Anville, Member of the Royal Academy of Belles-Lettres, of the Academy of Sciences at Petersburg, and Secretary to the Great Duke of Orleans. Neatly engraved on thirteen plates. Containing 1. Orbis Romani, pars Orientalis. 2. Orbis Romani, pars Occidentalis. 3. Orbis Veteribus Notus. 4. Gallia. 5. Italiae. 6. Graeciae. 7. Asiae Minor, et Syriae. 8. Palaestina. 9. Aegyptus. 10. Britannia Romana, by Mr. Horsley. 11. Graeciae, pars Septentrionalis. 12. - pars Meridionalis, by Mons. De L'Isle. 13. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the British Isles, in an intermediate State, between Ancient and Modern Geography; by Mons. D'Anville. The whole materially improved, by inserting the modern names of places under the ancient.
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourgignon d', 1697-1782.Date: 1799- Books
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A letter to the Revd. the new elected lectures of St. M-y W-c-l: Containing some hints of the greatest importance; in which the interest of all the lecturers in London, &c. are greatly concerned. Earnestly recommended to the perusal of the clergy and laity of the Church of England. To which is added, an appendix, addressed to the subscribers to the evening lectures of St. Swithin's, London Stone; St. Ann's, Aldersgate; St. James's, Duke's place, &c. &c. By J. S--, Esq;
J. S.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]