Search our collection | Science Museum Group Collection

Copper plate engraving representing sugar cane and the manufacture of raw sugar in the West Indies, from the 'Universal magazine', 1749. In later Museum mount.

'Universal magazine' engraving-West Indies sugar manufacture, 1749

Domestic Appliances

1749

Flywheel, for ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe, unsigned, Germany, c. 1740

Flywheel, for ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Silver medal, commemorates the hard winter weather experienced 1739-1740, artist unknown, medal German 1740

Silver medal, commemorates the hard winter weather

Wellcome Medals

1740

Circular white metal medal, commemorates Christopher Jacobus Trew, a German physician, designed by Vestner, 1736-1740

Circular white metal medal, commemorates Christoph

Wellcome Medals

1736-1740

English delftware drug jar, decorated in blue and white with the cherub and shell pattern, labelled in black writing U: BASIL: N. (Black basilicon ointment), used as a wound dressing, 1735-1745

English delftware drug jar, decorated in blue and

Medical Ceramic-ware

1735-1745

Tobacco box, brass, oval, hinged lid at back of box with flange fitting over well, bevelled edge round lid, base, engraved dotted floral design on lid and base, dated lid 1750, hence English, 1750

Tobacco box, brass, oval, hinged lid at back of bo

Smoking

1750

Glass Trough (c. 1730), stamped "I.S." (I. Sisson), 2 pieces of crown glass fixed in mahogany frame on support with turned based. This and M.7 (1993-1318) were part of the old Mathematical Society of Spitalfields, absorbed into the Royal Astronomical Society in c. 1860. Both given to Dr.Lee of Hartwell House, Aylesbury

Glass Trough (c. 1730), stamped "I.S." (I. Sisson)

Physics (early centuries)

1730

solar microscope by Mann & Ayscough, London, 1743, with Scroll foot microscopes, Wilson screw-barrel microscope and compass simple microscope, both unsigned, all contained in mahogany box

solar microscope by Mann & Ayscough, London, 1743,

Microscopes

1743

Handcoloured diagram of human anatomy, by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, 1748

Print showing the internal structure of the human head and neck, France, 1748

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1748

Painting, Launch at Deptford Dockyard by John Cleveley the Elder, c. 1750. Oil on canvas; 106 x 180 cm in gilt frame 119 x 193 x 12 cm. One of several launching scenes executed 1747-c. 1755. Although unsigned and undated, this work is closely related to Cleveley's depiction of the launching of St. Albans, dated 1748, now in the National Maritime Museum London. The 74-gun warship about to be floated is almost identical and probably from the same Naval Establishment specifications. The smaller 40-gun ship still in the stocks is possibly the Rochester, launched 1749. Of the two men-of-war at anchor, that with the lower deck portholes is a sixth rate 20-gun, 1741. Smaller craft witnessing the launch include longboat, Admiralty yacht and Thames wherries.

Launch at Deptford Dockyard

John Cleveley

1750

Engraving, "The Standard of Weights and Measures in the Exchequer. Anno 12(o) Henrici Septimi". "From the Original Table formerly in the Treasury of the King's Exchequer at Westminster, and now preserved in the M.S. Library of the late Earl of Oxford. Sumptibus Societ. Antiquariae Londini, 1746"size 28 1/2" x 20 1/2"

The Standard of Weights and Measures in the Exchequer. Anno 12(o) Henrici Septimi

Art

1746

Trade card: William Salmon Junior. Illustration of a scale, invented by Salmon, 'for the ready Dividing of Modules into Minutes'. The plate was engraved by B. Cole. (Calv. 336) (C.C. 181)

Trade card: William Salmon Junior

.Unattributed

1730-1735

Handcoloured print of human skeleton with arteries and nerves, with spinal column and brain displayed separately to right (first of three plates, head and torso only); table 16 from Gautier D'Agoty's celebrated 1752 anatomical treatise Anatomie generale des viscères en situation. Varnished.

Anatomy print

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1748

Hand-coloured diagram of human anatomy, one of three, by Gautier each divided into three parts. Possibly bookplates, varnished, various platemarks on paper. Inscription, ' 7: Planche ' Demontree par Mr Tarin et Gravee Par o.7' [head, brain]

Print showing the internal structure of the human head and neck, France, 1748

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1748

print. engraving. [The Creation]. ? from 'New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity', Thomas Stackhouse (1677-1752), (2 vol. London, 1737 and later editions). 24x38cm

The Creation

Art

1737

Trade card: Thomas Haselden, Union Stairs, Hermitage, London. 1735. Teacher of Mathematicks [sic]. (Calv 180) (C.C. 107)

Trade card: Thomas Haselden

.Unattributed

1735

Trade card: Jonathan Sisson, at the Sphere the Corner of Beaufort-Buildings, in the Strand, London. 1737. Mathematical Instrument-Maker. Printed on both sides. (Calv. 361) (C.C. 117)

Trade card: Jonathan Sisson

.Unattributed

1737

Engraving, A View of Dunnington Cliff on the River Trent, Francis Vivares after Thomas Smith, 1745; Numbered below image, b.r.: No.1. - Dedicated to the Earl of Huntingdon, owner of the Trent. Pastoral landscape with winding river and weir to lower water, with sluice and lock systems, and various small boats, gentleman with book in foreground boat, perhaps dedicatee

A view of Dunnington Cliff &c On the River Trent (five Miles South East of Derby)

Francis Vivares

1745

Trade card: Will[iam] Salmon Jnr. 1733. Illustration of a scale, invented by Salmon, 'for reducing any Module being Divided into 60 Minutes... to Feet & Inches'. (Calv. 335) (C.C. 180)

Trade card: Will[iam] Salmon Jnr

.Unattributed

1733

Trade card: John Senex F.R.S., at the Globe, over against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street. 1738. Globe- and map-maker.(Calv. 349) (C.C. 99)

Trade card: John Senex F.R.S.

.Unattributed

1738

Engraving. London Bridge. c1750.

London Bridge

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c. 1750

Handcoloured print of human skeleton with arteries and nerves, with spinal column and brain displayed separately to right (first of three plates, pelvis and upper legs only); table 17 from Gautier D'Agoty's celebrated 1752 anatomical treatise Anatomie generale des viscères en situation. Varnished.

Anatomy print

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1748

Handcoloured print of human skeleton with arteries and nerves, with spinal column and brain displayed separately to right (first of three plates, lower legs only); table 18 from Gautier D'Agoty's celebrated 1752 anatomical treatise Anatomie generale des viscères en situation. Varnished.

Handcoloured diagram of human anatomy

Jacques-Fabien Gautier

1748