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Gilpin, William, 1724–1804

Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape

circa 1790

Bush, Tracey

British butterflies

[2004]

Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842

Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome,

1820

Cowper, William, 1666–1709

Myotomia reformata

1724

Stevens, Francis, 1781–1823

Domestic architecture

[between 1844 and 1850]

Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849

Catalogue of the exhibition, called Modern Mexico

1824

Greenwood, Jonathan

The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain

[1715?]

Rowe, George, 1796–1864

Forty-eight views of cottages and scenery at Sidmouth, Devon

[1826]

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834

Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments

1810?

Estcourt, Thomas Grimston Bucknall, 1775–1853

Sketchbooks

1826-1851

In loving memory of Frederick Charles

1911

Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828

History of British birds

1797-1804

Rigaud, Jacques, 1681–1754

A general plan of the woods, park and gardens of Stowe, the seat of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham

1739

Field, William, 1854–1932

William Field scrapbook

1895

Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921

Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens

1879-1880

Seebohm, Henry, 1832–1895

Henry Seebohm ornithological notebook and diary

1860-1866

J. Somalvico & Co

Newly invented portable walking-stick telescope

[between 1842 and 1850]

Sallis, William, 1782–1865

Sallis's comic play grammar

[ca. 1850?]

May mutual loves count us blest

mid-19th century

Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833

Antiquities of London and its environs

1791-[1800]

Rocque, John, -1762

Plan du chateau, jardin et parc de Wilton

1754

Havell, Robert, 1769–1832

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats

1823

Passions of the soul and the anatomy of the human face

1815

Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797

Joseph Wright notebook

1775-1780

J.S. Fry & Sons

Chocolate box by J.S. Fry & Sons, with photograph of Lily Elsie

ca. 1909

Riley, Bridget, born 1931

Bridget Riley

[1965]

Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854

Sketchbook

circa 1830

Bonnell, Mandy

Bethany seeds

2013

Lamont-Fisher, Pauline

Daylight

2006

Please to imagine lady fair, If you my passion truly share, that in these gloves our hands combine, Mine in yours, love, and yours in mind

[approximately 1860]

[Three-dimensional cut-paper album card]

[approximately 1890]

Hamilton, Catherine

Catherine Hamilton commonplace book

1822-1880

Jennens, Bettridge & Sons

Jennens, Bettridge & Sons, manufacturers to Her Majesty & The Royal Family

[approximately 1849?]

I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well

mid-19th century

Boys Clothing House (London, England)

The Boys Clothing House, A.B. Joseph & Co.

[approximately 1864?]

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901

Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861

1868

Rawlings, James, active 1862

Rawlings' patent boot and shoe cleaning machine

1862?

Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people

[approximately 1850]

Brendel, Robert, approximately 1821–1898

Model of Brassica napus

approximately 1880

Probert, John, active 1764

A survey and valuation of estates the property of Nicholas Smyth Esqr. and his Lady

1767

Aesop's Fables

1687

Officer's photograph album of British military hospitals and camps

1917-1918

Burchell, William J. (William John), 1781–1863

Travels in the interior of southern Africa

1822-1824

Wood, William

A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta

MDCCCXXXIII [1833]

W. Stevens's circulating library and general newspaper office

[1880?]

Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847

Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria

1796-1803

Hall, Richard, (Boot maker)

Tender feet

[approximately 1851]

Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779

[A collection of engravings of castles, abbeys, etc. in England and Wales, by Saml. and Nathl. Buck]

1726-42

London interiors

[1841-1844]

[Admission ticket to a masquerade at Bayswater, January 20, 1820]

[1820]

Valentine card

[approximately 1859]

Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731

New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane,

1749

Hughes, S. H.

Panoramic view round the Regent's park

1831

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915

H. Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915

[1919]

Westminster Hotel (Chester, England)

The Westminster Hotel

[189-?]

St. John, James Augustus, 1795–1875

Views in the eastern archipelago

Augt., 1847

Gonsalves, José M.

Views at Bombay

[1833?]

Cunningham, Allan, 1784–1842

The cabinet gallery of pictures by the first masters of the English and foreign schools

1836

B. B. B

Manuscript of Keble's morning hymn

1860

Album of drawings

ca. 1900-1903

Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758–1833

Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures in London,

1818

Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833

Ancient topography of London

1815

White, George Francis, 1808–1898

Views in India

1836-1837

To the Queen's private apartments

1843]

Oram, William, d. 1777

Precepts and observations on the art of colouring in landscape painting

1810

Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703

1670s?]

Jones, Edward, 1752–1824

The bardic museum

1802

Fittler, James, 1758–1835

Scotia depicta, or, the antiquities, castles, public buildings, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, cities, towns, and picturesque scenery, of Scotland

1804

Bush, Tracey

Cygnea cantio

1997

Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802

Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime

circa 1763

Regency Hotel (Ramsgate, England)

The Regency. Ramsgate

1953

J. Fallon & Co. (Leek, England)

[Billhead of J. Fallon & Co., fish merchant, Leek, Staffordshire, for purchases made by Mr. Russell, 1887]

1887

John V. Harrison & Co.

[approximately 1840?]

G. W.'s transparencies

[approximately 1840?]

Tax bill for William Hanham, Cranleigh, Surrey, August 27th, 1843

1843

John Sanderson & Co

Splendid show of spring fashions

[1890?]

Nightingall, Miles

A catalogue of the genuine collection of pictures, of Mrs. Gamberini, widow of the late Charles Gamberini Esq., deceased, by whom these pictures were collected, at a great expence out of the principal cabinets abroad : consisting of the most eminent and approved masters of the Italian and other schools, amongst which are the undoubted works of Titian, Corregio, Raphael, Rembrant, Rubens, Vandyke, Poussin, Albert Durer, Carracci, Guercino, Guido, Zucharelli, Demenichino, Gio. Dom. Porta, Michael Angelo and other scarce performances, some remarkably curious : also her houshold furniture, an exceeding fine ton'd double key'd harpsichord, by Hawes of Hamburgh : a ditto single key'd harpsichord, with two unison, by Jos. Shudi, in a neat mahogany case : a neat brass measuring wheel, by Adams, on a new construction; and a great variety of other valuable effects : which by order of the executrix will be sold at publick auction by Miles Nightingall, on Wednesday the 10th May, 1775, and two following days, at his great room, the end of Saville Row, next Conduit-Street : beginning each day punctually at 12 o'clock : catalogues may be had as above, the Rainbow Coffee-House Cornhill, and at the auctioneer's in Golden Square

[1775]