EditorialPhotograph - Hecla Electrics Pty Ltd, 'Renown' Heater, circa 1922, Black and white promotional photograph of Hecla Electrics, 'Renown' Heater early 1920s. This photograph is from an album containing 255 black and white photographs depicting electrical ...
EditorialPhotograph - Hecla Electrics Pty Ltd, Factory Workers Assembling Heaters, circa 1925, Photograph of male factory workers assembling heaters at a Hecla manufacturing plant, probably the Little Bourke Street premises. Workers are stationed at heavy woode...
EditorialEmperor and renown followed by an army at a garden Pomis sua nomina servant (series title on object), An emperor and a general on horseback, followed by an army of foot soldiers and soldiers on horseback. In the background soldiers are fighting. In the...
EditorialThe H.M.S. Renown at Queen Street Wharf, Auckland, N.Z., James Douglas Richardson (New Zealander, 1878 - 1942), April 1920, Gelatin silver print.
EditorialPhotograph - 'Crossing the Bay' HMS Renown, Able Seaman David Ralph Goodwin, World War II, 1939-1945, Waves crashing on the bow of HMS Renown. One of 32 black and white photographs, some in the form of postcards, relating to the military service of Dav...
EditorialThe Rothschild Lamp, ca. 1510?20, Italian, Padua, Bronze, Overall (confirmed,wt including display block): H. 7 5/8 ? W. 9 ? D. 2 7/8 in., Wt. 4.4lb. (19.4 ? 22.9 ? 7.3 cm, 1995g), Sculpture-Bronze, The great master of the small bronze in the early Rena...
EditorialNouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne: Ou Description Exacte des Palais de La Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables... de la Grande Bretagne.
EditorialPeonies Blown in the Wind, ca. 1880, American, Leaded opalescent glass, 75 x 45 in. (190.5 x 114.3 cm), Glass, John La Farge (American, New York 1835?1910 Providence, Rhode Island), La Farge, one of the most innovative and versatile artists of the nine...
EditorialChasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty, ca. 1180?90, Made in Limoges, France, French, Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, and gilt; champlev? enamel: dark, medium, and light blue; turquoise, dark and light green, yellow, red, and white; wo...
EditorialAllegorical Figure of Peace, 1625?1713, Pen and brown ink, highlighted with white gouache, over red chalk, on light brown washed paper (the form of the spandrel is indicated in brown wash), 9 1/2 x 9 1/8in. (24.1 x 23.1cm), Drawings, Carlo Maratti (Ita...
EditorialThe Rothschild Lamp, ca. 1510?20, Italian, Padua, Bronze, Overall (confirmed,wt including display block): H. 7 5/8 ? W. 9 ? D. 2 7/8 in., Wt. 4.4lb. (19.4 ? 22.9 ? 7.3 cm, 1995g), Sculpture-Bronze, The great master of the small bronze in the early Rena...
EditorialThe Gloriette in the Schoenbrunn Palace Garden, Vienna, Austria. Built in 1775 as the last building constructed in the garden according to the plans of Austrian imperial architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg as a "temple of renown" to ser...
EditorialWild boar. Bought by the Borghese family from the Della Porta Collection in 1796. Specialists today doubt the antiquity of the grey marble sculpture. The Della Portas were a family of sculptors, renown for their restorations. Grey marble, H: 108 cm. Ma...