Loans to other institutions
The following items from the Library’s collections are currently on display at external venues:
A portrait of Richard Reynolds (1735-1816) by W.A Hobday is on long-term loan to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum (new window) in Coalbrookdale.
A pale blue silk handbag from the 1820s, with a screen-print of a black slave mother with child on one side and an anti-slavery verse on the reverse, is on long-term loan to the Museum of London Docklands (new window) and is currently displayed in their “London, Sugar and Slavery” gallery. It originally belonged to Rebecca Fox of Tottenham, and was donated to the Library by her granddaughter, Elizabeth Fox Howard in 1915.
