EditorialWoman Arranging Her Hair. Dated: possibly late 1880s/1890s. Dimensions: overall without base: 46.4 x 25.5 x 16 cm (18 1/4 x 10 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.). Medium: pigmented beeswax, clay, metal armature, cork, on wooden base.
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Daniel Maclise, The Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, Sitter, Engraver, Artist, After photograph by, Daniel Maclise, Daniel John Pound, John Jabez Edwin Mayall, Irish, Cork 1806?1870 London, British, active 1850?...
EditorialPilgrim bottle (one of a pair), 1823/24, British, London, Gilt silver, cork, Overall (confirmed): 17 1/4 ? 10 ? 9 in., 142oz. (43.8 ? 25.4 ? 22.9 cm, 4043g), Metalwork-Silver, William Elliott (British, London 1762?1854 London), These bottles are early ...
EditorialSpearhead and Storage Case (? ??), 17th?18th century, spearhead, Chinese or Mongolian; case, Tibetan, Steel, gold, leather, copper, possibly cork, wood, L. of spearhead 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm); W. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); L. of case 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); W. 2 ...
EditorialJohn MacNally, a go-kart, billy in bowl, or sledge beggar. He lost both legs in an accident when an apprentice in Cork. Rides a dog-drawn cart drawn by Boxer and Rover. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, ...
EditorialLemon press, port basket, cork holder, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896.
EditorialEdward Wetenhall, Bishop of Cork and Kilmore, died 1714. Copperplate mezzotint by Richard Earlom after an original painting by Jan van der Vaart from Samuel Woodburn's Portraits of Characters Illustrious in British History, London, 1810.
EditorialCork oak, Quercus suber. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialCork oak tree, Quercus suber 1, and terebinth or turpentine tree, Pistacia terebinthus 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialPortrait of the painter Peter Hasenclever, 1810-53, German, known mostly for his genre subjects, food and drink. glass, roemer, painter, palette, painting, table, book, glasses, wineglasses, winebottles, winebottle, candle, beard, cork, drink, alcohol,...
EditorialCork oak, Quercus suber. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 plates,...
EditorialA wooden secretary designed by Schinkel. Sitting atop the desk is a cork model of the temple of Vesta at Tivoli from the collection of crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Charlottenhof palace, Potsdam.