Population Explosion - detail
This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...
Porcelain Head Doll
Toys become even more interesting when we know something about their history. This doll belonged to Winifred Woodcock, who was born in 1934. It was a Christmas present in 1938, when she was 4 years old. ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This bisque head doll, with her trunk of clothes, was given to Irene Hey for Christmas 1922. It was one of the best presents she ever had:
"This precious doll came to me on Christmas Day in 1922. I ...
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, sold under the trade name 'Revalo', was made by the German maker Gebruder Ohlhaver.
It has a bisque head - a matt (unshiny) porcelain, with blue closing eyes and a real hair wig.
The ...
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.
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll's head was made in Germany by the maker Armand Marseille. His porcelain factory began making bisque doll's heads from c.1890, and became one of Europe's biggest producers.
Bisque is a matt ...
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 General D'Amade
A colour postcard with a portrait of General D'Amade, Commander of the French army, in military uniform. D'Amade was born in 1856 and commanded the French army during the First World War in France and ...
Portrait of General Rennenkampf
A colour postcard with a portrait of General Rennenkampf in military uniform. General Paul von Rennenkampf (1854 - 1918) joined the Russian army at a young age and had achieved the rank of Major-General ...
Portrait of Minnie Gibbs (Nee Whitehead) and Children
Minnie Gibbs (nee Whitehead) with her son, Geoffrey, and her daughter in an artist's studio. Minnie was the sister of the Leamington Spa born artists Elizabeth and Frederick Whitehead. It is possible ...
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 the Czar of Russia
A colour postcard with a portrait of Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1868 - 1918) in military uniform. Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia. He abdicated the Imperial throne in 1917 during the Russian ...
Portrait of the Maharajah of Patiala
A colour postcard with a portrait of Bhupinder Singh, Maharajah of Patiala, in military uniform. Bhupinder Singh served on the General Staff in France, Belgium, Italy and Palestine during the First World ...
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 ...