EditorialSteel sextant by one observer, Illustration of a steel sextant for measuring distances by a single observer from the 17th century, Fig. 17, p. 60, 1602, Tycho Brahe: Tychonis Brahe Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. Noribergae [N?rnberg]: apud Levinum ...
EditorialMary and Child, She stands on a plinth-shaped floor with the right leg forward, holding with her right hand the naked child facing the observer, whose left legs she holds fast. The Child holds a rosary hanging around him with both hands, on which a pra...
EditorialNegative - Amiens Gun, Canberra, circa 1930, German Krupp SK L/40 28cm railway gun known as the Amiens Gun at Canberra railway siding. Captured by the 31st Battalion AIF on 8 August 1918 during the final great Allied offensive on the Western Front. The...
EditorialBattle of Waterloo. Drawn & engraved from a plan delivered from the Horse Guards from a sketch by Capt. Thornton. The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J...
EditorialMap of St. Peter's field, Manchester, as it appeared on the 16th of August, last : taken from a draft made under the direction of Messrs. Pearson, Harmer and Denison. Map relating to the Peterloo massacre of 1819. . Peterloo Massacre, containing a fait...
EditorialDefence of Hougomont. "Who succeeded in gaining great part of the wood". The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J. Waldie... from sketches by Captain G. J...
EditorialPlans of the Battle of Waterloo at different periods on the 18th June, 1815. ... about 12, about 3 O'clock and on the advance at the close of the action. The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narr...
EditorialMaj.Gen. Sir W. Ponsonby's Brig. charging, "the Greys preserved a beautiful line at speed. After considerable resistance, the Eagles of the 45th and 105th regts. were seized". . The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a n...
EditorialThe fall of Maj.Gen. Sir. W.Ponsonby, K.C.B. The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J. Waldie... from sketches by Captain G. Jones. 2 vol. John Booth; T. ...
EditorialA sketch of the operations of the campaign in the Netherlands. June 1815. (The Waterloo campaign). The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J. Waldie... fro...
EditorialThe Duke of Wellington and staff at commencement of the action on the 18th of June". . The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J. Waldie... from sketches b...
EditorialPortrait of Henry Hunt, and title page. Peterloo Massacre, containing a faithful narrative ... Edited by an Observer. [With a map and a portrait of H. Hunt.]. Manchester : J. Wroe, 1819. Source: 601.aa.9.(1).
EditorialThe field of Waterloo, June 18th, 1815. Accompanied with references & a memoir. The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J. Waldie... from sketches by Capta...
EditorialPlans of the Battles of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, June 16, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J. Waldie... from sketches by Captain G. Jones. 2 vol...
EditorialBattle of Quatre Bras. Sir T.Belson and 28th regt. "the square remained steady". The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near observer ... [A narrative by C. A. Eaton, with a sketch by J. Waldie... from sketches by Capt...
EditorialAn historical map & plan of the campaign in Belgium, A.D.1815 ... with the attacks of the 15th. Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras on the 16th and of the Battle of Waterloo ... The Battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras described by ... a near...
EditorialSpotland soldier killed by a sniper'. A casualty report in a newspaper, during the First World War. The casualty being Private Charles Wright of the 11th battalion of the highland light infantry, killed in France. . Rochdale Observer. 15/12/1915. Sourc...
EditorialGuardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter, ca. 1645?47, Oil on wood, 21 3/4 x 29 7/8 in. (55.2 x 75.9 cm), Paintings, David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, Antwerp 1610?1690 Brussels), Teniers?s talents as a still life painter, observer of folksy fig...
EditorialValley with Fir (Shade on the Mountain), 1909, Oil on canvas, 29 x 35 1/2 in. (73.7 x 90.2 cm), Paintings, Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) (French, Douai 1856?1910 Saint-Clair), Henri-Edmond Cross was a practitioner of the Neoimpressionist ...
EditorialReaching Waves, 1929, Oil and aluminum paint on canvas, 19 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (50.5 x 60.6 cm), Paintings, Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880?1946 Huntington, New York), In early 1929, Dove and his partner, artist Helen Torr, lived in a wa...
EditorialTelegraph machines: the telegraph on the Louvre in Paris 1, and the telegraph at Lille showing the mechanism for moving the arms and an observer with telescope dictating to a secretary 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Goetz from Friedrich Jo...