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St Mary Islington.
Drawn on Stone by B.R. Baker. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Published May 1st. 1821 by B.R. Baker 77 White Lion St. Pentonville.
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 455 x 345mm. 18 x 13½". Upper left corner chipped. Two tears into image at right, one repaired.
South west view of St. Mary, Upper Street, Islington, with a carriage in the street in front. Figures standing in the street include a woman carrying pails. A rare print. Guildhall Library Record: 19246.
[Ref: 11526] £330.00
[Smuggling] What Cheer Brother, mayhap you'r taking an observation? / Not I bless you, I'm only taking a bit of a sketch._
Drawn on Stone by B.R. Baker.
Printed at the National Gallery of Practical Science._ Adelaide Street, London. [n.d., c.1825.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 235mm (11¾ x 9¼").
A smuggler points his pistol at an artist sheltering under a cliff.
[Ref: 52063] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Smuggling] Bless Me what a fine Cordial!! / "Cordial! that's no cordial! why it is a drop o real Hollands.
Drawn on Stone by B.R. Baker.
Printed at the National Gallery of Practical Science._ Adelaide Street, London. [n.d., c.1825.]
Fine hand coloured lithograph. Sheet 295 x 235mm (11¾ x 9¼").
A bluff smuggler gives a weedy man a sample from his cask. The 'National Gallery of Practical Science, Blending Instruction with Amusement' contained some 250 machines, devices and models such as a pocket thermometer, a gas mask, an oxyhydrogen microscope, a steam gun and, later, demonstrations of daguerreotypes, electricity and magnetism. It was situated in the Lowther Arcade, a glass-domed arcade near the Strand in London's West End until the 1840s, now the site of Coutts' Bank.
[Ref: 52062] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
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