Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 60 prints, mostly 19th-century

Prints & Engravings. A collection of approximately 60 prints, mostly 19th-century, including A View of Messrs Barclay Perkins & Cos Brewhouse, Southwark, London (aquatint, numerous repairs, laid on card, framed and glazed), together with other engravings and prints including portraits, topographical views, natural history, equestrian, pastoral and nautical scenes, including examples by or after Gillray, T. Alken, Graphic Illustration of Animals, James Basire, W. Ward, G. Vertue, C. Hunt, W. Sharp, W. Say, P. G. Langlois, Baxter Licencees, Wilson Lonry, John Charles Bromley and others, occasional duplicates, various sizes and conditions. (Quantity: approx. 60) Barclay, Perkins & Co Brewhouse began as Anchor Brewery in Southwark, established by James Monger the Elder in 1616, next to the site where the original Globe Theatre stood. It was successively owned by James Child, Edmund Halsey, Ralph Thrale and then his son Henry Thrale (1758-1781). Thrale, with his wife Hester Lynch Piozzi, both friends of Dr Samuel Johnson (who had his own room at the Brewhouse and wrote many of his famous works there), continued to expand the business. Johnson initially wished Mrs Thrale to keep the Brewhouse after her husband died in 1781 but it was sold to the Barclay family. The Barclays took Henry Thrale's manager, John Perkins, into partnership with a quarter share of the profits. The business continued to flourish and by 1810 with production at over 200,000 barrels a year. It became the biggest brewery in the world and attracted some famous individuals including the Prince of Wales, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck, Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Austrian general Julius Jacob von Haynau.