Collection items

Boydell's Collection of Prints illustrating Shakes...

Book, Engraving, Print, Illustration, Image

In 1789, the publisher John Boydell opened the Shakespeare Gallery, an exhibition space in London’s Pall Mall showcasing...

First edition of the Letters of the late Ignatius ...

Book, Octavo, Engraving, Illustration, Image

This book of Ignatius Sancho’s wise, warm and witty letters was the first published correspondence by a writer of Africa...

Portrait of Francis Grose

Etching

Francis Grose would have known Nathaniel Dance, the creator of this portrait, from the Royal Academy. Dance was one of i...