Explore some of Layton’s objects cared for at the Museum of London. Jon Cotton, Natasha Fenner, Jackie Keily and Roy Stephenson, specialist curators who have worked closely with the collection, share their delight in the astonishing range of material of every kind from across the
More
Discovering a hidden book collection – Layton’s Library film
Discover some of the treasures in Layton’s book collection in our new film commissioned with the help of the Lottery Heritage Fund. This film reveals some of history of Layton and his collection. With contributions from James Wisdom, Val Bott & James Marshall, we gain
More
Layton’s Library: A Curious Collection, 22 January – 3 April 2016
The exhibition Layton’s Library: A Curious Collection will display some of the most beautiful and unusual examples of 17th and 18th century books once owned by Thomas Layton. This is an exciting opportunity to see for the first time some of the oldest volumes from
More
Atlas Chinensis
Atlas Chinensis: An Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China, being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company Ogilby collaborated with Dutch publisher Jacob van
More
Guy Fawkes
Guido Fawkes and his associates, engraving published by G Smeeton of St Martin’s Lane, London. Collection no 5286a This image shows the conspirators who tried to blow up Parliament in 1605. It includes not only Guy Fawkes, but also Thomas Winter, Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy,
More
Middlesex smallpox hospital poster
Inquiry into the proposal to acquire a Middlesex smallpox hospital, 20 September 1906. This poster has survived amongst Layton collection and may well have been part of his working papers. It symbolises the ambition of local authorities in the Victorian and Edwardian to provide public
More
Auction Catalogue 21 January 1914
Auction catalogue for a sale held by Hodgson & Co in 1914, with lots including books, maps and prints from Thomas Layton’s collection.
More
Auction Catalogue 26 May 1914
Auctioneer’s catalogue for a sale at Layton’s home on 26 May 1914 arranged by Allan Booth and Dampney. The lots include furnishing and household items, but also oil paintings, watercolours and some antiquities. Download the catalogue as a PDF.
More
Sale Catalogue 9 June 1914
Cover of one of the sale catalogues which included objects rejected when Fred Turner, the Brentford Librarian, made his selection from Layton’s collection. Download the catalogue as a PDF.
More
London Fire
Fire in London, coloured aquatint by J Bluck from an original by Rowlandson & Pugin, published 1 September 1808 at Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London. Layton collection no 957d A strong image of a London event, showing the fire that destroyed the Albion
More
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Next Page»