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The picture gallery. Containing near two hundred paintings by the most distinguished ladies in Great Britain. Among which are the following Capital Pieces, The Widow Brady, - by Dowager Lady A-r. The Libertine reclaimed, - by the D-ss of C-d. The Highland Laddie, - by Lady S-h B-y. The Rake's Progress, - by Lady C-s. Baucis, - by P-ss A-a. Cymon and Iphigene, - by Duchess of D-re. The Careless Husband, - by Ditto. Lady Brute, - by Lady F-l-. The Dust Cart, - by Ditto. Jobson and Nell, - by Duchess of G-r. Old Margaret, - by Mrs. Gr-h-m, late Mrs. Mac-y. The Sweepstakes, - by Dowager D-ss of A-r. An old Woman cloathed in Gray, - by Lady G-ch. Venus making Love, - by the Honorable Mrs. H-b-t. Lavinia bathing, - by Miss H-m. Jephtha's Daughter bewailing her Virginity, by Countess of J-y. Lady Godina riding through Coventry, by Quondam Lady L-r. Bess of Bedlam, - by Lady N-th. An English Seraglio, - by the Countess of O-y. Pandora's Box, - by Lady R-s. Diana Trapes, - by Lady John S-Lle. Robinetta, - by Dowager C-ss of B-m-re. Saint Austin out of his Wits, - by Mrs. W-b-t-n. Desdemona, - by Lady T-d. The Torch of Hymen, - by C-ss of B-l. Gammar Gurton's Needle, - by Dowager Lady T-d, &c. &c. &c. To which are added, critical strictures upon each piece.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The new academy of complements, erected for ladies, Gentlewomen, Courtiers, Gentlemen, Scholars, Soldiers, Citizens, Countrymen; and all Persons of what Degree soever, of both Sexes. Stored with variety of Courtly and Civil Complements, Eloquant Letters of Love and Friendship, With an exact collection of the Newest and Choicest songs a la mode, Both Amorous and Jovial. Compiled by L. B. Sir C. S. Sir W. D. and others the most Refined Wits of this Age.
Date: 1713- Books
Angliae notitia; or, The present state of England: the first and second part. : Together with divers reflections upon the antient state thereof. / By Edward Chamberlayne Dr. of Laws, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.Date: 1672- Books
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A new academy of compliments: or, the lover's secretary: being wit and mirth improved, by the most elegant expressions used in the art of courtship, ... To which is added, a choice collection of above one hundred and twenty love songs, ...
Date: 1754- Books
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Fragmens sur l'histoire de France, règne de Louis XVI.
Date: 1788- Books
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The good old days of Honorable John Company : being curious reminiscences illustrating manners and customs of the British in India during the rule of the East India Company from 1600 to 1858 / compiled by W.H. Carey.
Date: 1906-1907- Books
The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Videos
The vanities of Dr. Ruysch.
Date: 1997- Books
Love, madness, and scandal : the life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck / Johanna Luthman.
Luthman, JohannaDate: 2017- Books
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An epistle from the bottle conjurors to the Gothamites; Containing The Eighth Chapter of the Acts of the Seducers, Sharpers and Conjurors in three Parts. Part the First, Wherein the Conjuror proposes to form a new World from a Magick Egg to perform many wonderful things, and to jump into a Quart Bottle. Part the Second. A full and true account of the Tragi-Comical Farce, as it was acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market, on Monday the 16th of January, 1748-9. Part the Third. Harlequin's Epistle to the People of the two great Cities, and his Escape by Virtue of a Funnel from a Quart Bottle, as it is acted at the Theatre in Covent-Garden. Miscellany Poems, on Gothamites, Almanacks, Writers, Fortune-Tellers, Courtiers, Priests, Quacks, Lawyers, Gamesters, Sharpers; in Hudibrastick verse. The Coach - maker's Wedding. A Song. On St. Stephen's Martyrdom, the 27th of December, being Maria's Birth-Day. Bob's Birth-Day, a Tale. Printed from the Manuscript of Signore Dolocio Ufrontorio, Son to the Wonder Working Chymist, lately Deceas'd in Alsatia.
Ufrontorio, Dolorio.Date: [1749]- Books
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Letters from France; containing a great variety of original information concerning the most important events that have occurred in that country in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, and 1793. By Helen Maria Williams. To which are annexed, The Correspondence of Dumourier with Pache, the War Minister, and with the Commissaries. - Letters of Bournonville, Miranda, Valence, &c. &c. ...
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1794- Books
Life between islands : Caribbean-British art 1950s - now / edited by Alex Farquharson and David A. Bailey.
Date: 2021- Pictures
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An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: 1824Reference: 15970i- Books
The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.
Arnold-Forster, AgnesDate: 2021- Pictures
A fashionable doctor visiting a fashionable lady patient. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1869.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1869Reference: 15688i- Books
Mr Foote's other leg / Ian Kelly ; introduced by the author.
Kelly, Ian, 1966-Date: [2015]- Pictures
A packed domestic music recital. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.Reference: 12157iPart of: Bird's-eye views of modern society- Pictures
Transplanting of teeth.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1787Reference: 16589i- Pictures
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Transplanting of teeth.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1787Reference: 16595i- Books
Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.
Date: [2014]- Books
Labours of love : the crisis of care / Madeleine Bunting.
Bunting, MadeleineDate: 2020- Books
COVID-19 and shame : political emotions and public health in the UK / Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose.
Cooper, Fred (Historian of medicine)Date: 2023- Books
Red Prometheus : engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Dolores L. Augustine.
Augustine, Dolores L.Date: [2007]- Books
Lockdown diaries of the working class / by The Working Class Collective.
The Working Class CollectiveDate: 2022- Books
Tenants : the people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency / Vicky Spratt.
Spratt, VickyDate: 2022