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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics

Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British
1809–28
Not on view
40 volume set, each volume contains six monthly issues. Illustrations devoted to series that include furniture, ladies' fashion, views of London emporiums, views of English country houses (exteriors), foreign views of cities and the alps, game hunting, samples of British made textiles, and embroidery patterns. Each volume approximately 380 pages, followed by annoucements of dividends and bankrupcies, meteorolgical charts, sometimes by advertisements, extra insertions, and indexes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics
  • Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1832)
  • Date: 1809–28
  • Medium: Illustrations: etching, engraving, aquatint, woodcut, hand-coloring, fabric samples
  • Dimensions: each vol. approx.: 9 7/16 × 6 × 1 3/4 in. (24 × 15.3 × 4.5 cm)
  • Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture, Periodicals
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942
  • Object Number: 42.74.2(1-40)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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