Title from item., Published: Henry Wilson and James Caulfield, The Book of Wonderful Characters, London: Hotten, 1869., Trimmed to 17.8 x 14.2 cm with loss of imprint., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Uncolored.
Title from item., Published: Henry Wilson and James Caulfield, The Book of Wonderful Characters, London: Hotten, 1869., Trimmed to 17.8 x 14.2 cm with loss of imprint., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and One of three copies.
Satirical portrait of Adoniram Byfield, with the Devil at his shoulder blowing at a child's toy windmill fixed on Byfield's hat; the vanes are labelled "Hypocrisy", "Lust", "Pride" and "Covetousness". Lettered with speech ribbons: the Devil saying, "He do's my business bravely"; Byfield, "Needs must when the Devil drives."
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication based on active dates of the Baldwyns.
Publisher:
Published by Charles & Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street
Title from item. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, London
Subject (Name):
Paap, Simon, 1789-.
Subject (Topic):
Dwarfism, Dwarfs, Human curiosities, Top hats, and Pipes (Smoking).
Title from item., Published: George Smeeton, Biographia Curiosa, or Memoirs of Remarkable Characters of the Reign of George the Third, London, J. Robins and Co., 1822., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes.
Title from item., Date and place of publication from item, Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"A tinker standing in a street, holding baskets of goods on both arms, hands clasped in front of him, looking to left, wearing rags and a battered broad-brimmed hat, with a street lamp above and a woman in a doorway in the background to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J. Robins & Co., Albion Press, London
"Portrait of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, three-quarter length, standing slightly to right, his right hand on his hip, holding hat and walking stick in his left hand; wearing braded coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; curtain and column behind."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted after page 626 (leaf numbered '66' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published February 1st, 1819, by T. & H. Rodd, 17, Little Newport St., Leicester Sq.
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
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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.