The Library has collected thousands of prints, drawings and photographs over the years. A large number are of local interest. Only a few of the most important of these graphic materials have been catalogued. Handlists are available for some of the other collections. Please contact the Librarian for more information.
William Hogarth
190 engravings and etchings by William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Phelps Collection
A large collection of glass negatives and lantern slides from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mostly taken by the local amateur photographer Joseph James Phelps
Asheton Tonge Collection
Includes prints by George Cruickshank, pencil sketches by Phiz and Thomas Stothard, 18th-century prints published by George Virtue, 19th-century Baxter prints, and prints from the Vernon Gallery and Furne of Paris
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