Browse Items (162 total)

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  Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

  This illustration depicts men dancing, laughing, and generally taking pleasure in their visit to a coffee house.
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  A Splendid Spread

  This illustration by George Cruikshank parodies the inflatable crinoline dresses worn by women in the nineteenth-century in London. The woman portrayed here wears crinoline so immense that her server must transfer food to her on a long spoon.
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  Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room

  This illustration by George Cruikshank portrays the colorful and chaotic scene of a drawing room overcrowded by guests.
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  Man Writing a Letter

  This painting by Gabriel Metsu depicts a seventeenth-century man as he writes a letter at home.
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  Illustration of a ball at Almack's Assembly Rooms, King Street, London

  This illustration depicts couples dancing within Almack's in London.
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  A Ball at Almack's Assembly Rooms in London

  This illustration depicts a ball taking place within Almack's Assembly Rooms in London, as couples dance quadrilles.
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  The Blue Devils _!!

  This illustration depicts a man experiencing the "blue devils," a term commonly used to signify depression or melancholy. This man's blue devils are personified, tormenting him with imagery of death and suicide.
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  Monument, near the Military Hospital, Barbados

  This etching depicts a monument erected near the military hospital in Barbados.
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  Barbadoes

  This map, published in Thomas's New General Atlas (1817), outlines the island of Barbados.
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  Breathing a vein

  This etching depicts the practice of bloodletting, as a doctor bleeds his ill patient in order to cure him of an ailment.
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  View on the River Thames at Richmond

  This painting depicts a boy playing near the bank of the River Thames in Richmond.
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  The Praying Jew

  This oil painting shows a devout Jewish man in the process of praying.
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  This pleasantry was received with a general laugh

  This illustration depicts the scene at the London Stock Exchange from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, as men share a laugh together.
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  The Barbadoes Mulatto Girl

  This 18th-century illustration depicts a biracial "mulatto" woman conversing with two women in Barbados.
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  English School, 19th Century

  This illustration depicts the streets of nineteenth-century Snow Hill, Holburn, a borough of the city of London.
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  The Great Hall of the Bank of England

  This illustration depicts transactions taking place within the Great Hall of the Bank of England in London.
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  The Royal Exchange and Cornhill in London

  This illustration portrays the bustling streets at the Royal Exchange in London, England.
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  Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette

  Columns in Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette announcing bankruptcies in London, England.
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  Untitled

  This oil painting portrays the moon as it rises over a harbor and boats sitting in the wharf.
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  The Blue Devils

  This illustration depicts a man consulting his doctor on his ailment, caused by the "blue devils," a term commonly used during the nineteenth century to describe feelings of depression.
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  The Serpentine, Hyde Park

  This painting depicts visitors walking and riding horses through the trails of Hyde Park.
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  The Anniversary Meeting of the Charity Children in the Cathedral of St. Paul

  This 1826 painting illustrates the large annual meeting of the Charity Children in London, congregated within the vastness of the Cathedral of St. Paul.
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  A View of the Palace at Kew from the Lawn

  This 1763 engraving portrays Kew Palace and the gardens stretching beyond it.
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  Lottery Drawing, Cooper's Hall

  This print depicts a lottery drawing by the English State Lottery at Cooper's Hall in 1809 London. The English State Lottery, established in 1694, was eventually shut down by Parliament in 1826.
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  The History of England

  The title page for David Hume's six volume work, entitled The History of England.