Gallery

‘Benjamin Cole’, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 70.39, c. 1720.

Benjamin Cole, c. 1720

‘Masefield’s’, © The Trustees of the British Museum, Heal,91.41, c. 1758.

Masefield’s, c. 1758.

Geordie and Willie ‘keeping it up‘ – Johnny Bull pays the piper!! Courtesy of the British Museum.

Geordie and Willie ‘keeping it up‘, 1822

C. Williams, ‘Equipt for a Northern Visit’, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, SP V 98.26, 1822.

Equipt for a Northern Visit, 1822

Unknown author, 'The Muir Portrait', Scottish National Gallery, PG 1472, circa 1800, Creative Commons CC by NC.

Adam Smith, the Muir Portrait, circa 1800

Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Miseries of London’, Wikimedia Commons, 1807.

Miseries of London, 1807

William Faithorne, ‘Frontispiece to Rawlins’ play Tunbridge Wells’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D22996, 1678.

Tunbridge Wells, 1678

Richard Cosway, ‘Timon of Athens Before His Cave’, B1976.1.32, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, ca. 1805.

Timon of Athens Before His Cave, ca. 1805

Handmann, Emanuel, ‘Portrait of Leonard Euler’, Kuntsmusem Basel, Inv. 276, 1753. https://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=1429&viewType=detailView

Leonard Euler, 1753

‘Pair of woman’s shoes with straps for shoe buckles’, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, M.81.71.4a-b, c. 1770.

Pair of woman’s shoes, c. 1770

Charles Wild, ‘St James's Palace: The north front‘, Royal Collection, RCIN 922161, 1819.

St James's Palace: The north front, 1819

'Toussaint Louverture, Chef des noirs insurgés de Saint Domingue', Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1796-1799.

Toussaint Louverture, Chef des noirs insurgés de Saint Domingue, 1796-1799

Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, 'Costumes de différents pays. Nègre et négresse de St. Domingue', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.3.190.354, c.1797.

Nègre et négresse de St. Domingue, c.1797

Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, 'Costumes de différents pays. Negresse et Femme Mulatre de St. Domingue', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.83.190.357, c.1797.

Negresse et Femme Mulatre de St. Domingue, c.1797

Map of Saint Domingue, undated

Map of Saint Domingue, undated

Labrousse, Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, ‘Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Danse de Negres à St. Domingue’’, Wikimedia Commons, circa 1797.

Danse de Negres à St. Domingue, circa 1797

James Sharples, 'Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery', The Met Museum, 24.109.89, 1786.

Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery, 1786

James Gillray, 'Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion', © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0808.6554, 1796.

Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, 1796

Joseph Nickolls, 'St James's Park and The Mall c. 1745', Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 405954, c. 1745.

St James's Park and The Mall c. 1745

Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier,  ’Lecture de la tragédie "L'orphelin de la Chine" de Voltaire dans le salon de madame Geoffrin’, Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, MM 59.3.1, c. 1812.

Lecture "L'orphelin de la Chine" de Voltaire dans le salon de madame Geoffrin, c. 1812

Philibert Louis Debucourt, 'Siècle de Louis XV. Une soirée chez Madame Geoffrin en 1755', Musée Carnavalet, G.5402, 1755.

Une soirée chez Madame Geoffrin, 1755.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the ancient mariner, illustrated by Gustave Doré (London: Doré Gallery, 1876). BnF Gallica.

Rime of the ancient mariner, 1876

Washington Allston, ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 184, 1814.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814

Peter Vandyke, ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 192, c. 1795.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, c. 1795

D. George Thompson published by Owen Bailey, stipple and line engraving, 'A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's', © National Portrait Gallery. NPG D14518, 1851.

A Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, 1851

John Hayls, ‘Samuel Pepys’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 211, 1666.

Samuel Pepys, 1666

Joseph Highmore, ‘Samuel Richardson’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 161, circa 1747.

Samuel Richardson, circa 1747

Jaques Gérard Milbert, ‘Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson et des parties latérales de l'Amérique du Nord, d'après les dessins originaux pris sur les lieux’, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1812.

Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson, 1812