Antiquities: instruments, buildings, decorative objects. Drawings, prints, letterpress and holographs collected by A.W. Franks.

[between 1800 and 1899]

1 album : drawings, prints, letterpress and holographs

From the collection of Sir A.W. Franks F.R.S. Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, British Museum. G.F. Lawrence, London Museum, Saint James S.W. 1922

Wellcome Collection 1882i

Lettering on verso of first flyleaf states that the album belonged to Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (and by implication was compiled by Franks), and subsequently passed to G.F. Lawrence (George Fabian Lawrence, 1861-1939, a dealer in antiquities who rescued items unearthed in excavations in the City of London and secured them for the London Museum, subsequently the Museum of London)