This plan shows the intention to remove Bethlem ('Bedlam") Hospital and replace it with the 'London Amphitheatre' which would comprise at least 60 houses with gardens, stables and coach-houses suitable for 'Opulent Citizens'. This complex will be linked directly to the Royal Exchange via a 80-ft wide new street
Description:
Colored for reference with an explanation note at upper left. Following imprint beneath map: Price one shilling., Shows George Dance's scheme for the reconstruction of streets from the Bank north to Finsbury Square. The designs were only partly carried out. The 'London Amphitheatre' on the site of Bethlehem Hospital was built as Finsbury Circus in about 1812., Sheet trimmed to 37 x 30.8 cm, resulting in partial loss of imprint and price statement beneath map., and Tipped in opposite page 396 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Engrav'd & publish'd by John Luffman, No. 28, Little Bell Alley, Coleman Street
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, City of London (England), London (England), City of London., and London.
Survey and ground plot of the Royal Palace of White Hall
Description:
Map of the Palace of Whitehall, showing the various rooms, courts, gardens, wharves, barracks and the park beyond, the river to the south. An elegant border formed of pillars with scrolling capitals and two keys to the map. Inset maps to the upper left and right of Charing Cross and Whitehall respectively. A further key below and a descriptive text on a book to the upper left., The title on a banner above between three armorials., A scale on the pillar to the left., Imperfect; only lower right quadrant is present (sheet 22.5 x 34.2 cm), with the rest of the map trimmed away., Folded to 22.5 x 17.4 cm; mounted to 27.1 x 21.3 cm., and Mounted after page 278 in volume 4 part 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
"Interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, with Benjamin Wilson standing at left holding a torch at the end of a long conducting device, two assistants at different points in the apparatus at right."--British Museum online catalogue and "The scene probably depicts Wilson's demonstration for the King in 1777 to demonstrate his theories about lightning conductors (see G. L'E. Turner 'A Portrait of James Short, F.R.S., Attributable to Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S' Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 22, No. 1/2 (Sep., 1967), pp. 105-112, p.106)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Frontispiece to: Wilson, B. An account of experiments made at the Pantheon on the nature and use of conductors. London : Printed for J. Nourse ..., 1778., and Bound in before page 339 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
J. Nourse
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, London., London, and England.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788,
Subject (Topic):
Electricity, electricity, Experiments, Scientific equipment, and Electrical apparatus
"Trial scene; Court of Peers in Westminster Hall, galleries packed with spectators."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The lady's magazine, or, Entertaining companion for the fair sex ..., v. 19 (April 1788)., A key to the image, labeled A-Q, is etched on either side of title., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of periodical name from upper margin. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., "Ladys magazine"--Above image., Mounted to 27.1 x 17.9 cm., and Mounted after page 182 in volume 4 part 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1st, 1788, according to act of Parliament by G. Robinson & Co., Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 and Westminster Hall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Impeachment, Government officials, Judicial proceedings, and Spectators
Patrons of the Anniversary of the Charity-Schools (Society)
Published / Created:
[1827]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
An engraved admission ticket with the St. Paul's Cathedral in a rondel in the center flanked on the left with an figure of a boy in a niche with the words "Naked & ye clothed us" below and on the right a girl, also in a niche, with the words "Ignorance & ye instructed us" below. Above the rondel is engraved in frame: Date et dabitur vobis
Description:
Title from text surrounding central image of St. Paul's Cathedral., "Designed, drawn & presented to the Society of Patrons by James Elmes, architect in College Hill, London. Steward in 1807.", Engraved text above images: 1827 West door., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First line of text: Admit one person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday the 14th of June 1827 when a sermon will be preached by the Right Revd. Father in God Charles James, Lord Bishop of Chester, before His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, President ... [list of vice presidents and stewards]., With the engraved signatures of Chas. Stable and Wm. Child above imprint statement., Ticket numbered "3512" in ink within circle between the engraved signatures above imprint., Mounted to 27.1 x 21 cm., and Mounted before page 127 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
Society of Patrons and Norris & Son, sc. Moorfields
"View inside the institution; paintings hang from walls, artists set up around sides with canvases supported by easels copying the displayed work; a table in centre of room with paints and brushes; an arch leads on to the next room with a similar set up."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 13., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 98.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
British Institution.
Subject (Topic):
Galleries & museums, Interiors, Painting, and Art education
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the "Common Version" of the Brut Chronicle
Alternative Title:
Chronicles of England
Description:
In Middle English., Several leaves missing at opening., Layout: single columns of 36 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: eighteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Red leather spine tag, gilt: Albyon A Monkish History M. S.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Invitation to a Court of Assistants' meeting of the Company of Brewers, at Brewer Hall in London
Alternative Title:
Sir, you are desired to be at a Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Brewers, at Brewers Hall
Description:
Title from item., Date supplied by cataloger., Letterpress text, with a woodcut illustration of the arms of the Company of Brewers above., Text in lower left: Brewers Hall, [blank]., Text at bottom: The Chair will be taken at [blank] precisely., Pasted at bottom, beneath the text, is a small (sheet 46 x 46 mm) hand-colored etching of the arms of the Company of Brewers., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.6 cm., and Mounted opposite page 140 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
"Interior view of the Royal Exchange, showing three sides, a tower rising in background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of plate, within a banner held by a putto in the sky., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., Restrike (probably retouched) of a print originally published in 1647 as part of a series of eight. See Adams., Approximate publication date from Adams, who notes that printsellers such as Laurie & Whittle were selling impressions on wove paper of the prints in this series at the turn of the 19th century. Decades earlier, the publishers Sayer and Bennett had offered impressions "on very good paper" in their 1775 catalogue, writing that the original plates had been "carefully cleaned" (that is, the worn lines had likely been re-engraved)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 20.7 x 27.1 cm., and Mounted after page 436 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Invitation to a dinner with officers of the Charity Schools of Christ Church, scheduled for 5 June 1828 at Highbury Tavern
Alternative Title:
Christ Church Spitalfields, Charity Schools and Sir, the favor of your company is requested to dine with the Treasurer & Trustees of the Charity Schools of Christ Church
Description:
Title from item., Text continues with the engraved name of "Edwd. Meyrick, Esqr. Treasurer," beneath which the names of twelve "Stewards" are listed in two columns., Entirely engraved; illustrated with a view of the facade of the school at head of sheet, and a smaller depiction at bottom of a breastfeeding woman with a boy and a girl at her sides, all standing on a pedestal upon which "No. [blank]" is engraved., "Dinner at 1/2 past 3 for 4 o'clock precisely"--Lower left corner., "Tickets 12 s."--Lower right corner., Blank space following the engraved text "No." at bottom has been filled in with the manuscript number "85.", Mounted to 27.1 x 21.1 cm., and Mounted opposite page 386 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
