EditorialPhotograph - Phar Lap & Gerald Telford, Mark Friend, 1931, Mounted hand tinted sepia photograph depicting Gerald Telford, son of trainer Harry Telford, sitting on the back of Phar Lap, on a property at Bacchus Marsh. It was taken just prior to Phar Lap...
EditorialAn ascetic. Dara Shikoh. 1630-1640. An ascetic, his long hair coiled upon his head, is seated on a deer-skin on a rocky hillock beneath a tree, holding a religious text in his right hand. Tinted drawing with contemporary extensions at edges. Image tak...
EditorialIgnaz Schiffermüller (2 October 1727 - 21 June 1806) was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera. In his Versuch eines Farbensystems (1772), Schiffermüller addressed the need for a standardised nomenclature with which to describe the ...
EditorialRaja of Dhar. c.1850. A three quarter length full-face portrait of Jaswant Rao Ponwar, Raja of Dahr (1833-1857). Hand-tinted full plate daguerrotype. Originally published/produced in c.1850. Source: Photo 67/(1).
EditorialView of Nice from the West, with fields and cottages among trees in the foreground and town, bay and mountains in the background. . A VIEW OF NICE TAKEN FROM A VILLA NEAR THE ROAD TO THE VAR. / Drawn by the Honorable Mary Harcourt ; Engraved by Maria ...