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Description of the various head dresses exhibited by Fredk. Brown, of 47, Fenchurch St. , in Section 18, no. 245, of the Exhibition Building, Hyde Park.
Creator:
Browne, Frederick, (Wig maker)
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Edward Gilks, ornamental designer : draughtsman on wood and lithographer : 4 Fenchurch Building, Fenchurch, London.
Creator:
Gilks, Edward, 1822?-
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 11 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Trade card for The London Hotel].
Date:
1862
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.
Creator:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:
1851[-1861]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Spurgeon's : registered cashmere capes from 12/9 to 5 guineas.
Creator:
Roberts
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 120 x 90 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855 / by the author of Modern painters.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
30 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G. Purt, licensed compounder & manufacturer of elder cordial : 13, St. Mary at Hill, Lower Thames Street, London.
Date:
[approximately 1842]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Napoleon Museum will be open at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, for a short time only ...
Date:
[1843?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 20 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Precepts and observations on the art of colouring in landscape painting / by the late William Oram, Esq. of His Majesty's Board of Works ; arranged from the author's original MS. and published by Charles Clarke, Esq., F.S.A.
Creator:
Oram, William, d. 1777
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
xvi, 104 p., 6 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew ; with numerous illustrations from photographs.
Creator:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:
1861-1862
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations, maps 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Soffe's panoramic representation of the grand procession on the day of the Queen's coronation [graphic] : eighteen feet in length.
Date:
[1838]
Physical Description:
1 print on 38 joined sheets : lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 551 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of South Metropolitan Cemetery, opposite St. Luke's Church, Norwood : Office, 70, King William Street for the burial of Emily Westear on Tuesday 28th November 1865 [illegible]].
Creator:
South Metropolitan Cemetery (London, England)
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Memento of the Mission for Children and Young People hald at Eastbourne : and conducted by Mr. E. Arrowsmith (Arabin House, Loughton, Essex)
Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
To the keepers and drivers of donkeys.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Lloyd, tobacco & snuff manufacturer : 30, High Street, Birmingham & 77, Snow Hill, London.
Creator:
Lloyd, John, active 1843
Date:
[ca. 1843]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Linwood gallery of pictures in needle-work : with a biographical sketch of the painters.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 8-71, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Miss Linwood's Gallery of pictures in worsted : Leicester Square.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
24 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Cooper Hewitt Museum
Front views of F. & R. Sparrow & Co.'s original London genuine tea warehouses.
Creator:
Frederick & Robert Sparrow & Co.
Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm, folded to 23 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Ticket for the Anniversary meeting of the Charity Children in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London].
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Select engravings from a collection of pictures : by the most eminent Italian, Flemish, and Dutch masters exhibiting at the Saloon of Arts, Old Bond Street : with a short biographical notice of the painters.
Date:
MDCCCXVIII [1818]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 59, [1] pages, [1], 90 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Game of the Great Exhibition of 1851 / W.P. Metchim, lith., 1 Adam St., Strand.
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 50 x 62 cm, folded to 17 x 21 cm, in covers 18 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
[Price list for items produced and sold by Henry Urch, Saddle and Harness Manufacturer, 84, Long Acre, London].
Creator:
Urch, Henry
Date:
May, 1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A Merry Christmas.
Date:
[approximately 1880?]
Physical Description:
1 folded Christmas card : color illustrations ; 12 x 15 cm, folded to 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
School Board for London Certificate : West Lambeth Divn. Mantua Street School.
Date:
[1888]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The decorations of the garden-pavilion in the grounds of Buckingham palace / engraved under the superintendence of L. Grüner ... ; with an introduction by Mrs. Jameson.
Creator:
Gruner, Ludwig, 1801–1882
Date:
MDCCCXLVI [1846]
Physical Description:
11, [1] pages, 15 [i.e. 16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letter to the Secretary of the Medico-Botanical Society (?) requesting information on lectures or literary proceedings, Oct. 7, 1847.
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (folded) : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully copied from nature : and humbly dedicated to all admirers of the grand and sublime.
Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756–1815
Date:
[1807]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [12] leaves of plates : etchings ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wellington Statue Hyde Park Corner : from Piccadilly : height 27 feet : weight 40 tons : cost £30,000.
Date:
[between 1845 and 1857]
Physical Description:
1 print : steel engraving ; 11 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
30, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer.
No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, Tom, 1817–1880
Date:
1862
Physical Description:
[4], 202 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:
[approximately 1842]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A catalogue of the superlative collection of cabinet pictures and miniatures, beautiful Roman missals, most superbly illuminated, a few bronzes, carvings in ivory, specimens of stained glass from the earliest periods of the art, drawings, books of prints and port folios, a beautiful impression Macklin's Bible and a small library of books : the property of, and selected with equal taste and judgment by, the late John Edward Breen, Esq., deceased, of Swithin's Lane, Lombard Street : which will be peremptorily sold by auction, by Mess. Skinner, Dyke, & Co. on Tuesday the 28th of May, 1805, and four following days, at twelve o'clock, at the Great Room, No. 25, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, near Bond Street, by order of the executors and trustees : among the pictures are a cabinet jewel of a Virgin and Child by Raphael : a Head of the Virgin by Carlo Dolci, from Lord Godophin's collection : the Virgin Child, St John and Angel by L. D'Vinci ... the Adoration of the Magi by N. Poussin : a portrait by Denner ... : the Marriage of St. Catharine by Titian : the Birth of Adonis by Albano ... : cabinet landscape by Claude : a ditto by Wynants, and many others, in the most perfect preservation, by the following esteemed Masters : Correggio, P. Cortona, Solimena, Sal Rosa, Carracci, Guido, Rubens, Vandyck, Van Huysum, Phillippo Laura, Teniers, Claude, Paul Brill, Poelemburgh, Ostade, Wouvermans, Vanderwerff, T. Mieris, G. Douw, Pynaker, Breughel, &c. : in the collection of miniatures are the works of Petitot, Zinck, Cooper, Oliver, Hoskins, Hilliard, Holbein, Rosalba, &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Skinner, Dyke & Skinner (London, England)
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
28 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
48 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
De Ville, James, 1776–1846
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
30, [2] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
British Institution
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
14 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
[27] leaves : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[between 1868-1885]
Physical Description:
16 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
No cover image available
Creator:
Liberty & Co.
Date:
[1887]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : color lithography ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1840?]
Physical Description:
pt. : all ill. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Gerards Hall Hotel (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1835]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 70 x 90 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A catalogue of all the remaining property hitherto unoffered for sale, belonging to that very ingenious and celebrated artist, Guy Head, Esq. Deceased : consisting of a variety of original works and admirable copies from the Old Masters by his own hand : particularly of the celebrated Danæ by Titian, in the Capo Di Monte Gallery ... and other works : two small landscapes by Wilson : an extensive collection of original drawings, by Head, Ducrous, Kniep, Keiserman, and other Masters : which embrace the most beautiful scenery in and about Rome, Tivoli, and the environs, Naples, Sicily, and the Mediterranean : valuable prints ... : a set of twenty-four interior views of the Museo Clementino by Feoli : engravings by Cardon, Dunego, Morghen, &c. : capital books of prints including Albinus's Anatomical Tables, 1 vol. : Anatomia del disegno, 1 vol. : Le 'Antichita romane D'Albano, del Campo Marzio, &c. D'Piranesi, 4 vols : Il Museu Pio Clementino, 3 vols. : Les Ruines des Monuments de la Grece, 2 vols : Hamilton's Vases by Tischbein, 3 vols. : di Museo Capitolino, 3 vols : Mosaize Hisoire der Hebreeuwse Kerke, 4 vols. : Galleria Farnese di Annibale Caracci, 1 vol. : ... copy of Raphael's Bible : 1 Costumi Antichi Egiziani, &c. 1 vol. ... Costumes les Theatres Anciennes que Modernes, 2 vols. ... : and other scarce and valuable works : cork models of the Coloseum & Temples of Vesta & Minerva Medico : casts of medals and gems : a pair of black Etruscan vases : and a Patera : bronze heads : upwards of ninety lots of ultramarine : near twenty lots of Chinese Vermillion and other colours : drawing paper, drawing boards, port folios, and various other articles : which will be sold by auction, by Peter Coxe, at the auction mart, near the Bank of England, on Wednesday, the 11th of April, 1810, and two following days, at one o'clock, precisely, (by order of the administratrix.)

No cover image available
Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Artists' and Amateurs' Conversazione (London, England)
Date:
1829 Nov. 4-1832 Oct. 17
Physical Description:
1 v. ([98] p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840–1860
Date:
[1871?]
Physical Description:
37 pictures on 7 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 329 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:
[1832]
Physical Description:
21, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts