Trade card for the Dawbarn family grocery warehouse, situated in Aldermanbury, London. It shows a man wearing typical Chinese dress, sitting on boxes on the banks of a river. Behind him looms a large pagoda, and to his right a box, an urn, and a basket overflowing with goods
Description:
Title from item., Date entry in Kent's original London directory, 1816 edition., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Dawbarn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Grocers, Ethnic stereotypes, Pagodas, Rivers, and Ships
A lithographically printed advertisement for G. Wooll of Hastings, showing a view of the town. Wooll was also a printer and publisher who issued local views of Hastings and Rye as individual prints and bound collections
Description:
Title from text in upper left corner of image. and Mounted to 16 x 26.5 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Quarto handbill, illustrated with a coat of arms at top; all within a thick mourning border., "Westminster Cloth Mart, No. 7, Tothill Street. The impression being general, in all cases of public mourning, that an advance of price takes place on all articles for which the demand is increased, W.P. and E. Dudden inform the public, that they have lately purchased the entire stock of cloths and cassimeres of a reputed manufacturer in the west of England, who is retiring from that business; consisting of Second, Saxon, and Superlative black cloths and cassimeres; in consequence of which, their present stock of black goods ... instead of being advanced in price, will be offered considerably under the regular prices.", and Laid on to recent green card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Balne, printer, Gracechurch Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Caption title., Broadside advertising an ascent by Sieur Krous involving balloons in the form of Henry IV of France and "a number of wild animals", which would perform an "aerial chace, or hunt in the air"., and With a newspaper clipping from The Times for the 4th July 1815 explaining that there were long delays at the event, and insufficient gas to fill the balloons. For further information, consult library staff.
A trade card advertising the services provided by the printseller and picture restorer Robert Hulton, whose shop was at on the corner of Pall Mall facing the Haymarket. A medley print with text in image on the left "Paintings, prints & Indian picktures [sic] carfully [sic] clean'd. mended and lined" and on the right "The following particulars made & sold very cheap by Rt. Hulton at the corner of Pallmall facing [the] Hay-markett, St. James's, London
Alternative Title:
Maps and prints sold and framed for parlors, staircases and closets at reasonable rates
Description:
Title from engraved text below image in two columns. Text continues in one column below: Carved and gilt frames, Ebony frames with gilt edges, black peartree frames with gilt edges for paintings & prints made after the newest faishions [sic]., Date from annotations on impression at the Lewis Walpole Library., and On verso is a manuscript bill from Robert Hulton to "Honble. Mr. Henson", dated October 1743. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Printed trade card., Text ends: Ladies wishing to be suited, are requested to make an early application at 7, Sackville Street, London., Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon was a maker of stays who was granted a patent in 1801., and For further information, consult library staff.
A ticket issued by the Concert of Antient Music in 1812, for an event held at the Hanover Square Rooms in London. In the center, a bust in profile looking left, within oval lettered 'New Rooms Hanover Square, The Concert of Antient Music' and surmounted by musical instruments; date '1812' above
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The design of the ticket is after Robert Smirke. See an earlier version of the ticket from when the concerts were held in Tottenham Street, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1983,U.1829., and Inscribed 'Miss Roberts' in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of Prince Leopold leaning mournfully over his wife Princess Charlotte's tomb, which is adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Sixteen lines of verse are engraved at the bottom
Description:
Title from item., All engraved., First line of verse beneath title: Weep, England, weep! They pride is gone ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Crabb
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Grief
Crabb, T. (Thomas), active 1811-1815, author, publisher
Published / Created:
[1817?]
Call Number:
File 56 C47 817Cr
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of a mourning Britannia with Claremont, Charlotte’s home, and her funeral cortege, in the background. Twenty lines of verse are engraved at the bottom, signed "Crabb".
Description:
Title from item., All engraved., First line of verse beneath title: Hark, the herald's solemn sound ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by T. Crabb, 1 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817