print; book-illustration; illustrated book

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print; book-illustration; illustrated book

Object Type: print; book-illustration; illustrated book
Museum number: 1940,0529.1.1-49
Title: Object: The Throne, St. James's Place. | Investitutre, of a Knight of the Garter.; Object: The Guildhall. | Installation of the Lord Mayor on the 8th,, of November.; Object: The Great Jewish Synagogue. | Celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles.; Object: Freemason's Hall. | Dinner of the Royal Humane Society, with the procession of the persons saved during the year from drowing.; Object: Long Room in the Custom House. | Payment of the Customs.; Object: Egyptian Hall, Mansion House. | The Wilson banquet.; Object: King's College. | Distribution of the prizes in the theatre, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.; Object: House of Lords. | Her Majesty opening the session of Parliament.; Object: British Museum. - The Reading Room.; Object: Exeter Hall. | The great Anti Slavery Meeting, 1841.; Object: Court of Common Council, Guildhall. | Presentation of a petition.; Object: St. George's Church, Hanover Square. | Celebration of a noble marriage.; Object: Banquetting House, Whitehall. | Distribution of Her Majesty's Maundy.; Object: Lincolns Inn Hall. | The Lord Chancellors Court.; Object: Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields. | Celebration of High Mass on Christmas Day.; Object: Middle Temple Hall. | The benchers and members "taking commons."; Object: Lord Mayors Table, Guildhall. | Grand Banquet on the 9th,, November.; Object: Royal Naval Museum, Somerset House. | Exhibition of models.; Object: The Rotunda, Bank of England. | Payment of dividends.; Object: Ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Royal Exchange. | By Prince Albert, Monday, Jany,, 17, 1842.; Object: Chapel Royal, - St,, James's Palace. | Celebration of service before Her Majesty & Prince Albert.; Object: Tomb of Queen Elizabeth. | Henry VIIth,, Chapel, Westminster Abbey.; Object: Thatched House Club. | Dinner of the Dilettanti Society.; Object: The Throne Room, Buckingham Palace. | Presentation of an address from the University of Oxford.; Object: Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey.; Object: The Picture Gallery, Buckingham Palace. | Duchess of Cambridge (as Anne of Bretagne) and her court, in Her Majesty's Bal Costume of Queen Philippa.; Object: House of Commons. | The Speaker reprimanding a person at the bar.; Object: St,, Paul's Cathedral. | Anniversary meeting of the children of the charity schools of London.; Object: Horse Guards. | The Commander in Chief's levee.; Object: Westminster Abbey. | Consecration of the colonial bishops.; Object: Council Chamber, Vintner's Hall. | Vintner Sherriff receiving the congratulations of his company.; Object: The Athenaeum. | Drawing Room.; Object: Barber Surgeon's Hall. | The Company admitting a new member.; Object: Hunterian Museum. | Royal College of Surgeons.; Object: Nelson's tomb, crypt of Saint Pauls.; Object: Madame Tussaud's exhibition. | Bazaar, Baker Street.; Object: Drury Lane Theatre. | Wrestling scene in "As you like it."; Object: Reform Club. | The corridor of the saloon.; Object: Reform Club. | The kitchen.; Object: Temple Church.; Object: Westminster Hall. | Trial of Warren Hastings.; Object: St,, James' Palace. The Audience Chamber. | Proclamation of Her Majesty the Queen.; Object: Hall of the Athenaeum.; Object: Buckingham Palace. | The Princess Royal sitting for a portrait.; Object: Kensington Palace. | The Sussex Library.; Object: Westminster Abbey; Edward the Confessor's Chapel. | Coronation chair; sword & shield of Edward 3rd..; Object: The Admiralty. - Board Room. | Meeting of the Lords of the Admiralty.; Object: Drawing Room of Queen Victoria. | Ceremony of presentation.; Object: The Bank parlour. | Court of the Governor and company.
Description: Bound volume of 'London Interiors: A grand national exhibition...' (London: Joseph Mead, 1841-44), vol. I: frontispiece, 'The throne, St. James's Palace. / Investiture, of a Knight of the Garter'; engraved titlepage, with vignette, 'Entrance to the National Gallery'; letterpress titlepage; dedication; index; preface; 'Essay on London costume', ix-xx, with 16 wood-engraved vignettes; letterpress pages numbered 1-192, interleaved with 48 steel-engraved plates. Volume with letterpress text, steel-engraved plates and some wood-engraved illustrations
Producer name: Print made by: Henry Melville; Print made by: John Shury; Print made by: William Radclyffe; Print made by: John Henry Le Keux; Print made by: T Turnbull; Print made by: Edward Radclyffe; Print made by: Thomas H Ellis; Print made by: W H Fuge; Print made by: William James Taylor (?); After: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd; After: George Belton Moore; After: James Holland (?); After: Henry Melville; After: George Cattermole; After: Edward Dayes; After: Thomas Rowlandson; After: Frederick Mackenzie; After: Sir John Gilbert; After: Jarvis; Printed by: William John Sears; Published by: Joseph Mead; Published by: Aubert; Published by: Theodor Oswald Weigel
School/style: British; French; German
Production date: 1841-1843
Production place: Published in: London (England); Published in: Paris (France); Published in: Leipzig
Materials
Technique: engraving; letterpress; wood-engraving
Dimensions: Height: 279 millimetres (approx. page size); Width: 218 millimetres (approx. page size)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Issued in parts, the prospectuses and wrappers bound in at the end of the volume. For volume II, see 1940,0529.2.1-26. 1940,0529.1.9 is a view of the Reading Room in the British Museum. 1940,0529.1.47, 'The Admiralty - Board Room', lettered as after Rowlandson, acknowledges its derivation from Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London', pl. 3.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: architecture; museum/gallery; church; interior; palace/mansion; commercial/financial building; synagogue; school/university/college building; theatre/opera house; tomb/mausoleum; ceremony/ritual; club; draughtsman/painter; devotee/worshipper; costume/clothing; marriage/wedding; legal building
Associated names: Portrait of: Queen Victoria; Portrait of: Albert, Prince Consort; Associated with: Elizabeth I, Queen of England; Portrait of: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Associated with: Horatio Nelson, 1st Baron and Viscount Nelson; Associated with: Warren Hastings; Portrait of: Victoria, Empress Frederick of Germany; Associated with: Edward the Confessor, King of England; Associated with: Edward III, King of England and Duke of Aquitaine
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1940
Acquisition notes: Given by Arthur E Adeney
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1940,0529.1.1-49

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