Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827)
‘Inside view of the Public Library, Cambridge'
1809. Maps Fr.y.14

The Library was a tourist attraction, as depicted in this amusing print by Rowlandson. A contemporary guidebook notes that the Sub-Librarian was required to attend from 10 till 2, ‘to deliver books to the members of the Senate, and to shew the Library to strangers’.