EditorialWomen sewing, Edo period, Japan, c1795-c1796. A group of respectable married women, surrounded by their children and even a pet cat are working together on a hot summer's day folding and mending obi sashes. On the right, two of them stretch and fold a ...
EditorialNew Year's Day. The Chinese, following an old and respectable tradition invented by a confectioner, never fail to begin the year by offering to all their acquaintances chestnuts and other small presents. They kiss each other with pursed lips, but would...
EditorialHis Royal highness, Prince Albert laying the foundation-stone of the stranger's home, near Limehouse church'. The Stranger's Home in London, which was established in 1857 at West India Dock Road, Limehouse offered a comfortable and respectable lodgi...
Editorial"The stranger's home", West Iindia dock road - Limehouse. The Stranger's Home in London, which was established in 1857 at West India Dock Road, Limehouse offered a comfortable and respectable lodging to every class of Asian, African and South-Sea Islan...
EditorialThe stranger's home, West India dock-road. Limehouse'. The Stranger's Home in London, which was established in 1857 at West India Dock Road, Limehouse offered a comfortable and respectable lodging to every class of Asian, African and South-Sea Islande...
EditorialLondon Super Mare. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family. Bradbury and Evans: London, 1854, 1855. People at the seaside. Image taken from The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. [By W. M. Thack...
EditorialA woodcut portrait of Fanny Murray (1729-1778), née Fanny Rudman and later Fanny Ross, was an 18th-century English courtesan, mistress to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and dedicatee of the fateful Essay on Woman (1763) that led to the downfall of...
EditorialOliver introduced to the respectable old gentleman. This sketch is intended as a sort of title page to the twenty-five water colour drawings, etc. 1894. Twenty-six plates. Proofs in colour of the illustrations used in the Chapman & Hall 1895 edition of...
EditorialSignet Ring of John, Imperial Spatharios, 10th century, Byzantine, Gold, niello, Overall: 11/16 ? 7/8 ? 15/16 in., 1.2oz. (1.7 ? 2.2 ? 2.4 cm, 34g), Metalwork-Gold, The title spatharios, Sword-Bearer, was originally an honor reserved for the imperial b...
EditorialWomen sewing, Edo period, Japan, c1795-c1796. A group of respectable married women, surrounded by their children and even a pet cat are working together on a hot summer's day folding and mending obi sashes. On the right, two of them stretch and fold a ...