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Fold-out frontispieces from 19th-century chapbooks. for from

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2023-03-12

New Acquisition:

Ellen Helleu Lesant, Katherine McCausland (1859 - 1930), Collection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by Mary Stratton Ryan, 2015.

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2023-01-07

The anti-ghost ghost story book, 1823. for from Antiquates. The author, Rudolph Ackermann, was an inventor who was partly responsible for gas lighting. These stories are meant to counteract the Gothic excesses of popular literature. 🧵

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2022-07-30

The Spiritualists knew how to party. from Rootenberg Rare Books

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2022-04-23

what do you say to a little roundup of Slavic material? here are just a few of the things I was excited to bring into the library this year 🧵

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2021-12-20

Thanks to the support of my colleague , I was able to make a late-breaking addition to next summer's Face to Face exhibition, this breathtaking 1780 collection of 239 hand-colored portraits. via

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2021-11-17

Sunday Surprise?

Not-So-Blind Cupid is paid to look the other way... as this much-younger wife begins to stray, and her old husband earns his horns! This mercenary trope is equally ancient. album 17/?

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2021-04-18

✨#ACCNewAcquisitions for 2019/20 ✨

Partou Zia
Fenced Horizons, 2005
Oil on canvas

Gift of the artist’s estate
Images courtesy of Estate of Partou Zia © Estate of Partou Zia

https://t.co/fwaQSQBJss

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2020-09-03

A anti-Jacobin satire in the form of an auction catalog, representing major figures of the Reign of Terror as savage exotic animals for sale.

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2020-01-30

Our most fun new for some time: c. 1890s French shaped like a crab, of which no other copies are known to survive. Now available to consult (shelfmark 8000.c.1244(14)).

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2019-12-09

Celebrating the groundbreaking radio broadcasts to and from the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934

https://t.co/jXwh1khbKH

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2019-06-09

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Figure in Blue, 2018

“I am interested in interrupting the linear narrative of portraiture and reinforcing the lack of fixity in drawing; the sense that something is about to change.”

Image courtesy the artist and

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2019-06-01

✨NEWS✨

We are delighted to reveal today the full list of 59 works by 25 artists that we have acquired for the nation for 2018-19.

Find out more: https://t.co/AdpVTPe6ih

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2019-04-30

Play Dead II by is just one of the exciting now on display until 14 April!
Other new works in this include drawings by & collages by


FREE entry

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2018-04-01