EditorialClosed Burgundian storm hat with lattice visor, Closed Burgundian storm hat with lattice visor and helmet flap. Probably a nineteenth-century variant of a seventeenth-century storm hat or a composite storm hat. The grating visor on the hinged chin plat...
EditorialElongated tray of varnished wood, decorated with Chinese coins and a magatama. Equipped with a non-authentic seal from Ritsuo., anonymous, Japan, 1800 - 1900, Edo-period (1600-1868), wood (plant material), lacquer (coating), h 2.7 cm ? w 34.8 cm ? d 12...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire (La Montagne Sainte-Victoire), Paul C?zanne, 1892?1895, Oil on canvas, Mont Sainte-Victoire, which towered over the Aix-en-Provence region of southern France, was one of C?zanne's favorite motifs. He knew the mountain...
EditorialThe Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on fire. Authentic Account of the Fire which reduced that extensive building of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, to a pile of ruins, on the evening of the 24th of February, 1809; to which is added, a chronological l...
EditorialA ticket of admittance to view the 'Shakespeare Papers' at Samuel and William Ireland's home. PAPERS and Correspondence of Samuel Ireland, relating to the alleged discovery and publication of the supposed Shakspeare MSS., forged by his son Samuel Will...
EditorialThe King of Dahomy 's Levee. The History of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes. London, 1793. Source: 455.c.16, plate I.
EditorialMap of London, with the names of county courts in red. Davies's map of the British metropolis : containing the boundaries of the boroughs, the railways, stations & all modern improvements, particularly the boundaries of all the metropolitan county cour...
EditorialJack Sheppard captured by Mr. Austin'. Jack Sheppard was an English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th-century London. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 and escaped four times. Pocket Newgate calendar; a series of authentic memoir...
EditorialThe Commodore at Juan Fernandez. An authentic and genuine journal of Commodore Anso. London: C. Whitefield, 1744. Commodore George Anson (1697-1762) at camp on the Juan Fernandez Islands. Image taken from An authentic and genuine journal of Commodore ...
EditorialBomarsund. Attack on the Forts by HMS 'Valorous' and 'Odin' 21st June 1854. View of forts burning in the distance, three ships before them. Lettered "COLNAGHI'S AUTHENTIC SERIES" lower left. A Series of 23 coloured lithographic views, representing the ...
EditorialField of Inkerman from the three gun battery. SHEWING THE GROUND ON WHICH THE PRINCIPAL STRUGGLE OF THE 5TH NOVR TOOK PLACE WHERE ZOUAVES GUARDS, & OTHER INFANTY FOUGHT PELL-MELL WITH RUSSIAN COLUMNS. View of Inkermann; Russian bodies including man wit...
EditorialThe bombardment of Sebastopol by the combined fleets October 17th, 1854. A Series of 23 coloured lithographic views, representing the principal events during the Russian War, by W Simpson and others, from sketches by E T Dolby and other artists. London...
EditorialLoss of HMS Tiger, May 12th 1854. View of the bombardment of Odesa, ship on fire on the left. Captions read 'Vesuvius' and 'Niger'. Lettered 'COLNAGHI'S AUTHENTIC SERIES' lower left. According to Parker, "The small British frigate Tiger, 16, Captain H....
EditorialCamp of the light division at Allah-Din near Varna. Sunny landscape view, with lines of tents in the middle distance amongst trees, rocks in the foreground. Lettered "COLNAGHI'S AUTHENTIC SERIES" lower left. . A Series of 23 coloured lithographic views...
EditorialGeneral plan of the part of the city of London which was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666. . General plan of that part of the City of London, which was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666 : shewing also the present state thereof constructed from aut...