Gallery

An oval oak and silver snuff box, 1660

Oak and silver snuff box, 1660

Jean Ducrollay, Snuffbox, 1744, Paris. Gold and enamel. 3.2 x 7.6 x 5.8 cm. The Wallace Collection, London.

Jeweled Snuffbox, ca. 1765, German, Berlin. Glass, gold, silver, diamonds and rubies, H. 6 cm, L. 10 cm, D. 8.8 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

Jeweled Snuffbox, ca. 1765

1820 playbill

Play-bill, 1820

Poney, or one-horse phaeton, 1796

Poney, or one-horse phaeton, 1796

Deux couverts de table (OA 9801-1 à OA 9801-4), époque / période : Restauration (1814-1830) (Occident->époque contemporaine), date de création/fabrication : 1823 - 1829, Hyon, Collections du Louvres.

Forks and spoons, 1823-1829

Image adpated from James Tilly Matthews's 'Air Loom' in John Haslam's Illustrations of Madness (1810) . Wellcome Library, London (CC-BY 4.0)

Journal des amis de la constitution, n°11.

Journal des amis de la constitution, 1791

The Gallery of French Fashions and Costumes. By Sabatier and Durin. Impr. lith. of Firmin-Didot, Brothers, Son, &c.

The Gallery of French Fashions and Costumes. By Sabatier and Durin. Impr. lith. of Firmin-Didot, Brothers, Son, &c., 1885

Diploma of the Highland Society of London, 1805

Diploma of the Highland Society of London, 1805

The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, Critic and Censor-general. Printed for J. Parsons, No. 21, Paternoster-Row (London), 1793, volume 3.

The Connoisseur, 1793

‘Seal of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, in Archaeologia Scotica: or Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume I. Printed by William and Alexander Smellie, printers to the Society, for William Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, in the Strand, London. Booksellers to the Society, Edinburgh et M, DCC, XCII. [1792], front page.

Seal of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1792

C. Williams, ‘Equipt for a Northern Visit’, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, SP V 98.26, 1822.

Equipt for a Northern Visit, 1822

‘Pair of woman’s shoes with straps for shoe buckles’, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, M.81.71.4a-b, c. 1770.

Pair of woman’s shoes, c. 1770

James Gillray and Hannah Humphries, ‘What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1052.

What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801

George Stubbs, 'The Milbanke and Melbourne Families', c.1769. The National Gallery, NG6429.

The Milbanke and Melbourne Families, c.1769

George Stubbs, ‘A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton’, 1787, The National Gallery, NG3529.

A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton, 1787

George Clarke, ‘Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage’, c.1810, Barker & Co., London, The Science Museum, 1942-47/83.

Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage, c.1810

‘Tin-glazed earthenware bowl’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.241, 1780-1790.

Tin-glazed earthenware bowl, 1780-1790

Lawrence Harrisson, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.261, 1748.

A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1748

At St Albinus, Ermatingen (Swiss Thurgau), the font has had two basins for centuries, one serving Catholics (at the front), the other the Reformed community. Picture by the author.

At St Albinus, Ermatingen (Swiss Thurgau), the font

Charles Burney [collector], ‘Burney Collection. ‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket’, British Library, 937.b-e, 1774-1777.

Theatrical Register, 1774-1777

Thursday, March 1, 1711. The first issue of The Spectator, 1711. Printed on both sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in English. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

The first issue of The Spectator, 1711

‘Pair of cotton pockets’, c. 1820, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 2009.300.3472. "Pocket belonging and worn by my grandmother Ann Isabel Hale 1820" (C) Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Peyton R. H. Washburn, 1942.

Pair of cotton pockets, c. 1820

‘Title pages of the ca. 1788 edition of the first volume of the collected edition of Addison and Steele’s The Spectator’, Wikimedia Commons, circa 1788.

The Spectator, circa 1788

Henry Rumsey Forster, The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland (London: David Bogue, 1852).

The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1852

Front page of the first issue of The Daily Courant, 11 March 1702.

The Daily Courant, 1702

‘Philadelphia Assembly tickets’, Philadelphia Dancing Assembly records, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Am.3075 folio, 1772 and 1785.

Philadelphia Assembly tickets, 1772 and 1785