EditorialTobacco box, Round box with flattened ball shape, and round lid with gold-plated silver hinge. The outside is horizontally divided into two friezes, on which alternating cartouches and weapon trophies with guns, banners, armor and drums. The cartouches...
EditorialAn emblematical miniature illustrating the thoughtless, absurd, and familiar act of the person who chops or saws off the branch upon which he is seated. Sala critiicises the man's lack of foresight.The scene illustrates a love poem dedicated by Pierre ...
EditorialPsalm 113, with border decoration. Lower margin, a kitchen scene. On the left, an elderly bearded cook, perhaps representing John of Bridgford, Sir Geoffrey Luttrell's cook, dips a colander into one of three large cauldrons which are steaming over a lo...
Editorial"Gentlemen, what does this mean? 'Chops and Tomato sauce. Yours, Pickwick'". The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ... Illustrated by Cecil Aldin. London : Chapman & Hall; Lawrence & Jellicoe, 1910. Source: 12612.i.28 vol.2 frontispiece.
EditorialPsalm 113. Border decoration with grotesque. At the foot, a kitchen scene. On the left, a carver in cap and apron chops a sucking-pig in two with a large knife, and a servant takes two dishes of meat. In the centre, on a smaller three legged table, a m...
Editorial[Album of 67 Photographic Studies of Self-Defense Maneuvers], ca. 1895, Gelatin silver print, 13.7 x 9.8 cm (5 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.) each, Albums, Unknown, This unintentionally hilarious manual of choke holds, body slams, kicks, chops, and arm twists was ma...
EditorialNapoleons camp on the eve of the battle of Austerlitz, Dec. 1, 1805, in which he defeated the allied Russians and Austrians. Detail: A soldier chops branches for firewood. Oil on canvas, 180 x 220 cm.