Gallery

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

Joseph Wright of Derby, 'Untitled, known as A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is put in place of the Sun or The Orrery', Derby Museum and Art Gallery, c. 1766.

A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, c. 1766.

James Gillray and Hannah Humphries, ‘What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1052.

What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801

George Stubbs, 'The Milbanke and Melbourne Families', c.1769. The National Gallery, NG6429.

The Milbanke and Melbourne Families, c.1769

George Stubbs, ‘A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton’, 1787, The National Gallery, NG3529.

A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton, 1787

George Clarke, ‘Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage’, c.1810, Barker & Co., London, The Science Museum, 1942-47/83.

Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage, c.1810

William Hogarth, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.351, c.1732.

A Midnight Modern Conversation, c.1732

‘Tin-glazed earthenware bowl’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.241, 1780-1790.

Tin-glazed earthenware bowl, 1780-1790

Lawrence Harrisson, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.261, 1748.

A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1748

Emanuel de Witte, 'A Sermon in the Old Church in Delft', c. 1650 oil on oak, 73.2 x 59.5 cm. Purchased 1983 with the assistance of a grant from the Government of Canada under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC.

'A Sermon in the Old Church in Delft, c. 1650

At St Albinus, Ermatingen (Swiss Thurgau), the font has had two basins for centuries, one serving Catholics (at the front), the other the Reformed community. Picture by the author.

At St Albinus, Ermatingen (Swiss Thurgau), the font

Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton the Elder, ‘The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre’, Met Museum, 69.584.10, 1784

The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre, 1784

‘Playbills printed on silk, prefaced by note by Banks’, The British Museum, ©The Trustees of the British Museum, 1612984365.

Playbills printed on silk, undated

Charles Burney [collector], ‘Burney Collection. ‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket’, British Library, 937.b-e, 1774-1777.

Theatrical Register, 1774-1777

Paroled Frédéric Guérin letter, 1812

Paroled Frédéric Guérin letter, 1812

'Certificate of Prisoner of War on parole at Montgomery', Powysland Museum & Montgomery Canal Centre, GTJ23569, 1 January 1812.

Certificate of Prisoner of War on parole at Montgomery, 1812

Thomas Rowlandson, 'Bodmin Cornwall: French Prisoners on Parole', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.145, 1795.

'Bodmin Cornwall: French Prisoners on Parole, 1795