EditorialFortuna standing in a toognis, Fortune stands on a globe with the right leg forward and has the left foot slightly sideways and down, her right hip bending sideways. With her left hand she holds the sail, which is also bolstered to the left, above the ...
EditorialModel of a Lifeboat Release, Polychromed model of a part of a ship's wall with a sloop on two nail avits, on a floorboard on which water is simulated. The model demonstrates the sloop trap of the sloop, releasing two hooks on the hoists of the davits b...
EditorialGag from the wreck of the East India dealer Hollandia, Gag. Toggle, (1), center more bulbous (center 2d, ends 1d), square hole through center (0.3 x 0.3), Annet, Dutch East India Company, Hollandia (ship), anonymous, Netherlands, 1700 - in or before 13...
Editorial'Poor John Bull - the free-born Englishman - deprived of his senses by the six new acts'. A man shackled, with his fingers in a press. A satirical drawing. The Free-born Englishman deprived of his seven senses by the operation of the six new Acts of th...
EditorialTameing [i.e. taming] a shrew. Or Petruchio's patent family bedstead, gags & thumscrews, Tameing a shrewTaming a shrew, London 1815, woman restrained in a bed fashioned like a pillory. Her husband sits up in bed beside her, holding a whip and gag.
EditorialTameing [i.e. taming] a shrew. Or Petruchio's patent family bedstead, gags & thumscrews, Tameing a shrewTaming a shrew, London 1815, woman restrained in a bed fashioned like a pillory. Her husband sits up in bed beside her, holding a whip and gag.