EditorialMaufacturer's lace sample books, Medium: cardboard, linen, silk, metallic Technique: linen embroidery with ground cloth dissolved Examples of embroidery on net produced by the Schiffli machine Metallic embroidery on net Machine-made openwork in imitati...
EditorialHummingbird heads, Hummingbird heads, gold; imitation leather, velvet, satin, a,b: Each earring made of head of hummingbird set in oval gold frame, with three oval pendants set with feathers. c: box designed to hold earrings; covered with black imitati...
EditorialDUN-SHAW, 'One Foot in Leadenhall Street and the other in the Province of Bengal'. 1788. Gillray caricatures an ambitious politician, Henry Dundas, First Viscount Melville. Gillray depicts him in a mixture of Scottish and Indian dress, posed in imitati...