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1 print : etching ; platemark 25.4 x 18.6 cm

Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.

<p>The house shown in this print was, according to W. Robinson, The history and antiquities of the parish of Hackney, London, 1842 [pp.88-91], built in 1590. Used as a residence by John Okey, one of the Cromwellians who signed the death warrant of Charles I, then by John Busch, who was later gardener to the Empress Catherine II. In 1792 the house and land came into the possession of the Loddige family. Conrad Loddige made a garden of fifteen acres and grew 200 species of plant, including exotics</p>

1 print : engraving ; image 9.1 x 14.6 cm

Barber's Barn, Hackney, a timber-framed building with decorative plasterwork, two ladies walking in the garden, a gardener at work. Engraving by Lacy, 1811, after T. Fisher.

Two old walnut trees (Juglans regia) growing by a country lane and sheltering some cows and their minders. Lithograph after G. Barnard, c. 1849.

1 print : lithograph ; image 30.8 x 41.5 cm

Austro-German War: the Prussian King William I, visiting, and being worshipped by wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, c. 1866.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour and gum arabic ; image 25.1 x 20.3 cm

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Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.

Barber's Barn, Hackney, a timber-framed building with decorative plasterwork, two ladies walking in the garden, a gardener at work. Engraving by Lacy, 1811, after T. Fisher.

Two old walnut trees (Juglans regia) growing by a country lane and sheltering some cows and their minders. Lithograph after G. Barnard, c. 1849.

Austro-German War: the Prussian King William I, visiting, and being worshipped by wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, c. 1866.

Two uniformed German soldiers carrying in a battle victim to a military doctor who waits in a barn. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

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Six peasants carousing in a barn as a seventh man vomits in the corner. Etching by J. de Visscher, 17th century, after J. Danckerts.

Barber's Barn, Hackney, a timber-framed building with decorative plasterwork, two ladies walking in the garden, a gardener at work. Engraving by Lacy, 1811, after T. Fisher.

Two old walnut trees (Juglans regia) growing by a country lane and sheltering some cows and their minders. Lithograph after G. Barnard, c. 1849.

Austro-German War: the Prussian King William I, visiting, and being worshipped by wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, c. 1866.

Two uniformed German soldiers carrying in a battle victim to a military doctor who waits in a barn. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

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