EditorialThe fore side of Combe Box. Houses and a duck pond. A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, being a complete discovery of those arts with patterns for Japan-work engraven on 24 copper-plates. Oxford, 1688. Source: C.44.k.5, plate 8.
EditorialPetticoat panel with chinoiserie motifs, ca. 1700, British, silk thread on linen foundation fabric, 35 1/2 ? 52 3/4 in. (90.2 ? 134 cm), Textiles-Embroidered, By the late seventeenth century the appeal of Far Eastern goods had reached most levels of En...
EditorialPetticoat panel with Chinoiserie motifs, ca. 1700, British, Silk thread on linen foundation fabric, 35 1/2 x 52 in. (90.2 x 132.1 cm), Textiles-Embroidered, In 1688 John Stalker and George Parker published A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, a book...
EditorialCommon box turtle, Terrapene carolina (close tortoise, Testudo clausa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Stalker after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia, London, 1801.
EditorialCaptain Hind of the 55th Regiment of Foot, notorious stalker of a renowned beauty. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.