Title

New Reading-Room at the Bank of England, opened on Wednesday, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

New Reading-Room at the Bank of England, opened on Wednesday, 1850. '...a handsome reading-room, which has just been formed for the Bank of England Library and Literary Association [in London], instituted by the directors for the use of the clerks, was opened by Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq., Deputy-Governor of the Bank...the Chief Cashier, as President, and the Chief Accountant, the Treasurer of the institution, moved and seconded a vote of thanks to the Court of Directors for the handsome manner in which they had fitted up the Library...in short, the Bank of England Library and Literary Association, aided by the exertions of the committee, and their hon. secretary, Mr. J. R. Durrant, of the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent Office, bids fair to become one of the most remarkable institutions in the metropolis'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A34_367

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47,7Mb (4,0Mb) / 16,5in x 11,2in / 4960 x 3364 (300dpi)

Keywords

building people male interior library man men arts bank finance desk desks books book guy reading tables British lighting shelf shelves table Victorian century bank of england Britain inside bookshelf newspapers press bookshelves furniture literature B&W engraved engraving 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector gas lighting Illustrated London News Reading Room ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century