Parasol
A black silk parasol with a carved handle, possibly ebony, c.1895.
Parasol
A parasol from the victorian period. It is made from pale blue silk with black lace edging and an ivory handle.
Parasol
An early Victorian parasol with a wooden handle. It is made of brown silk and decorated with a floral pattern and a brown and beige fringe.
Parasol
A parasol from the Victorian period. It is decorated with brown silk and has a wooden handle.
Parasol Handle
This Victorian parasol handle is made of a long piece of plain ivory. It has metal fixings at one end and a screw thread at the other. It was fashionable for Victorian women to have pale complexions and ...
Pendant
This pendant show the image of a gypsy girl painted on ivory and mounted in an oval gold frame. It belonged to George Eliot who may have bought it in Seville, in March 1867.
George Eliot (born Mary ...
Pocket Watch
The watch has a silver casing which bears a London silver mark and the letters 'TG'. It has a gold or gilt movement and hands, with a black figuring and a seconds dial. The watch face is inscribed, c.1800-1820....
Pocket Watch
A gold engraved pocket watch with a white face and black Roman numerals. The watch has a small seconds dial and ring for suspension, c.1878.
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll was made by the French maker Jules Steiner. His company made high quality dolls, as well as mechanical figures.It has a bisque head, with composition body and limbs. 'Composition' is a papier-mache ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll has a porcelain head with painted hair and features. It is called a 'glazed china' because the head has been given an overglaze to make it shiny.
Glazed china heads were popular until the ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll has a head made from untinted bisque. This is a matt (unshiny) porcelain with painted features added, but is otherwise left white.
It has a fabric body, with bisque arms and legs. The clothes ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This fashion doll was probably made in France, perhaps by the firm of Pierre Jumeau.
Fashion dolls were popular between 1860 - 1890, and were made to look like elegant young women.
This doll has ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll has a bisque head - a matt (unshiny) porcelain, with closing blue glass eyes and a mohair wig. Its body is made from leather, with bisque arms and composition legs.
Portrait of Daniel Lambert
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting Daniel Lambert, the celbrated fattest man on record. In 1805 he resigned as Keeper of Leicester Gaol to both make a tour of England drawing large crowds, and ...
Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne
A portrait of the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), who stayed at a rented house at 10 Lansdowne Circus, Leamington Spa in the 1850s.
Portrait of Thomas Baker
A photograph of a painting by Octavius Oakley of the Leamington Spa artist, Thomas Baker. The portrait was painted in 1841, when the two artists met for the first time. The original painting is in the ...
Pottergate, Richmond, Yorkshire
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a streetscene in Richmond, Yorkshire. The painting is by J. S. Newton and dates from 1847, and Newton included his father's business in the painting, as over ...
Pottergate, Richmond, Yorkshire - detail of figure
This is a detail of an oil painting on canvas depicting a streetscene in Richmond, Yorkshire. This is Jackie Patterson, the cleaner of the local privies in 1847 when this picture was painted by J. S. ...