George Vertue was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.
1733 portrait of Vertue by Jonathan Richardson
The Gate at Whitehall (Holbein Gate) in Vetusta Monumenta Vol.1, 1747 (1826).
Thomas Birch was an English antiquarian, historian, and writer.
Yearly bills of mortality, 1759 (Milano, Fondazione Mansutti)