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24 images from works
  • James Woodhouse, shoemaker and poet. Etching, 1765.
  • Amusing Productions present Lighthouse poets : Tuesday 27th July 1992, 7.30 pm : readings by Tomm Gunn, John Heath-Stubbs, Maureen Duffy, Jeremy Reed, Clive Wilmer introduced by Brenda Dean / London Lighthouse.
  • Walt Whitman. Photographic postcard after N. Sarony, 190-.
  • M0013627: Portrait of Pierre Budin (1846-1907)
  • John Dryden, Samuel Garth, John Vanbrugh, and Richard Steele. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Sir G. Kneller.
  • Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • An eye; according to Lavater, belonging to a German poet. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • John Dryden: portrait. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • King James I and VI, with four Scottish writers: Robert Burns, John (?) Home, Allan Ramsay, and James Beattie. Engraving.
  • Amusing Productions present Lighthouse poets : Tuesday 27th July 1992, 7.30 pm : readings by Tomm Gunn, John Heath-Stubbs, Maureen Duffy, Jeremy Reed, Clive Wilmer introduced by Brenda Dean / London Lighthouse.
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Works from the collections

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    M0012914: Portrait of Phillip Sidney (1554-1586)

    | Date: April 1953 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/115/43
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

    | Date: 1823 | Reference: 546506i
    • Pictures

    Statues and personalia of eminent persons in Europe. Photographs by H. Avery.

    Avery, Harold. | Date: 1960-1969 | Reference: 11638i
    • Books

    The eye in the door / Pat Barker.

    Pat Barker | Date: 1994
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

    | Date: 1804-1946 | Reference: MS.7780
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