Mayson Beeton Gallery

Samuel Pepys N110036

MAYSON BEETON COLLECTION. Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, and diarist, 1666. His secret diary presents a compelling first hand account of the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-7), the Great Plague (1665), and the Great Fire of London (1666). Engraving from the Mayson Beeton Collection

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Engraving

Serpentine, Hyde Park 64R_HYD_1814_S

MAYSON BEETON COLLECTION. Woodcut. Hyde Park, London. The Representation of a Seafight on the Serpentine River, in commemoration of Peace in 1814'. One of a series of events to celebrate the first defeat of Napoleon. These miniature naval battles featured model men-o-war, illuminations and pyrotechnics. After Batchelar, Printer and Publisher, Long Alley, Crown Street, Finsbury Square, London

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Mrs Cosway 6B_PAL_1789_a

Schomberg House, 80-82 Pall Mall, London. An engraving showing the view from Mr Cosway's Breakfast-Room at Schomberg House, looking towards Westminster Abbey, with Mrs Cosway seated in the foreground. Richard Cosway (1742-1821) was a leading portrait painter, his wife Maria Cosway (1760-1838) was also an accomplished artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. A note beneath the engraving records that the landscape was painted by William Hodges, RA, and the portrait was painted by Rd. Cosway. The whole was engraved by W. Birch, 1789. Coloured engraving from the Mayson Beeton Collection

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