In the 18th century posters & prints

View of the Stocks Market in Poutry, City of London, in the year 1738 (1752) Henry Fletcher

Bastion at the angle of London Wall, St Giles without Cripplegate churchyard, City of London John Carter

Charles I, after Sir Anthony van Dyck. England, mid-18th century Anthony Van Dyck

Patience in a punt Henry William Bunbury

A letter from Allan Ramsay to John Gay Anonymous

Portrait of Countess Ekaterina Golitsyna, 1759. Louis Michel van Loo

Jean Jacques Rousseau, 18th century Maurice Quentin de la Tour

Exterior view of the Italian Opera House, Haymarket Charles John Smith

Dr Arne Francesco Bartolozzi

Ironmongers' Hall, Fenchurch Street, London Anonymous

View of the San Giorgio Maggiore Island, between 1765 and 1775. Francesco Guardi

Middle Temple Macaroni Anonymous

Princess Mary Pietro Bonato

The Presentation in the Temple, c. 1770 François Boucher

Taste Jean Raoux

The Ladies Contrivance Anonymous

Portrait of a young girl wearing a scoop-necked dress Unknown

Lady Mary Berkeley, Wife of Thomas Chambers, ca. 1700 Sir Godfrey Kneller

Italian Landscape (detail), 18th century Antonio Diziani

The Afternoon Meal, ca. 1772 Luis Meléndez

An eighteenth-century dandy in Ranelagh Gardens, London Anonymous

Portrait of Samuel Martin William Hogarth

The garden of Carlton House, London, 1784 (1785) Anonymous

Portrait of Marie, Princess of Hessen, c.1750 German School

Female Portrait, 18th century Pietro Rotari

Captain Francis Grose By Himself Francis Grose

Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart…, 1757 Francois Hubert Drouais

Hester Booth as a Harlequin Woman John Ellys

Satire on the national debt, 1782 (1785) Francis Jukes

View of Fountain Court, Middle Temple, City of London Henry Fletcher

Interior view of Astley's Amphitheatre in London as it appeared in 1777 William Capon

Billingsgate eloquence James Gillray

Watt's First Experiment, 18th century, (c1870) Herbert Bourne

Christening robe. England, 18th Century Unknown

Reconciliation or the Return from Scotland Anonymous

Daniel Rutherford, late 18th century Unknown