EditorialFan sheet of parchment (?) With tempera on the front with a 'Floralia' with Vestal virgins and on the back a medallion with two playing, naked children and a poem between two cornucopias, birds and butterflies, Fan sheet of parchment (?) On which both ...
EditorialFrost fair, 3rd February, 1814. Description based on Dorothy George: View of the Thames during a Frost Fair, St Pauls in the distance. Tents include 'The Free and Easy on the Ice' and 'Wellington for Ever Good Ale'. The barber has a tent placarded 'Sha...
EditorialFrost fair, 3rd February, 1814. Description based on Dorothy George: View of the Thames during a Frost Fair, St Pauls in the distance. Tents include 'The Free and Easy on the Ice' and 'Wellington for Ever Good Ale'. The barber has a tent placarded 'Sha...
EditorialThe bombardment of Odessa, April 22nd 1854. Sea-view of an explosion on the left, and ships lined up firing cannons on the right. Lettered "Explosion of the Magazine 1PM Saturday April 22nd by a Shell thrown in by / H.M.S. Retribution from the Quarter ...
EditorialLandscapes in Summer and Winter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on silk, 38 3/4 x 18 in. (98.4 x 45.7 cm), Paintings, Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723?1776), These paired images function as contrasting emblems of winter and s...
EditorialLandscapes in Summer and Winter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on silk, 38 3/4 x 18 3/16 in. (98.4 x 46.2 cm), Paintings, Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723?1776), These paired images function as contrasting emblems of winter ...
EditorialThe Irish bull broke loose, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, engraving 1799, the Irish Bull tossing William Pitt into the air and about to do the same to Lord Dundas who runs to the left; on the far right, those opposed to Pitt's Union Bill cheer on the...
EditorialTHE WRECK OF THE THREE-MASTED SHIP "BENVENUE" AT SANDGATE: When night came on a bonfire was lighted on the beach by the crowds who were watching the wreck, to cheer those of the unfortunate crew who were still clinging to the rigging.
EditorialThe Irish bull broke loose, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, engraving 1799, the Irish Bull tossing William Pitt into the air and about to do the same to Lord Dundas who runs to the left; on the far right, those opposed to Pitt's Union Bill cheer on the...
EditorialTHE TOMBS, THE PRINCIPAL TEMPORARY POLICE PRISON IN NEW YORK. HERE ARE INCARCERATED THE PRISONERS TAKEN DURING THE DAY, THE THIEVES AND THE DEFAULTERS, ASSAULTERS AND COMMITTERS OF ARSON, RIOTERS AND GARROTTERS. AT EACH OF THE CELL DOORS ARE DEVOTED, L...