EditorialLouis XIV, King of France, brings peace to the world, Copper Medal. Front: man's bust inside the inside. Reverse: Herkules with fair skin and club over shoulder within a circle, cut off: inscription, Louis XIV (King of France), Thomas Bernard, Paris, 1...
EditorialRestoration at the World Exhibition in Amsterdam, 1883 Center of the main restorations Remembrance of Amsterdam in 1883 (series title on object), View of the restoration and music tent at the World Exhibition on the Museumplein in Amsterdam. Part of a ...
EditorialAlejandro Ferrant y Fischermans (1843-1917). Spanish painter. Spanish Pavilion at the World Fair in Paris, 1879. History Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialView of the Italian Court at the Crystal Palace in London, The Italian Court (title on object), world fair, world exhibition, Crystal Palace, The London Stereoscopic Company (mentioned on object), 1854, photographic paper, cardboard, albumen print, h 8...
EditorialEmblem 48; mother and dead child. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Three sketches of a mother and infant, clutched in the mother's right arm, on the back of an eagle; a rejected illustration of Hayley's second ballad '...
EditorialWorld's Fair, Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, N. ... Open daily until Saturday, Febry. 9th. Continued success! Everyone filled with wonder and amazement at the entertainment given for six-pence. Blondin the hero of Niagara … Wombwell's menagerie ...
EditorialPortrait de l'empereur Napoléon III (1808-1873) - Portrait of Emperor Napoleon III (1808-1873). Around 1855. Canvas, 245 x 158cm. One of the many copies of official use (various prefectures, embassies, institutions, etc.) of the portrait of ...
EditorialPortraits of medieval Russian rulers: Yaroslav the Wise 6, Sviatoslav I 7, Sviatopolk I 8, Vladimir II Monomakh 9, Yuri I 10, Ivan II the Fair 11, Dmitri Donskoi 12 and Ivan III Vasilyevich 13. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi f...
EditorialFuchsia hybrids: Etoile du nord 1, the Fair Oriana 2, and Souvenir de Chiswick 3. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857.
EditorialO fair as Hope was the New Year's morn, That broke through the night, o'er a world forlorn! The glad bells toll'd for the Old Year gone, And rang for the New, a merry sweet song.New years day, New years morning.
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...