The Dentist
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a dentist extracting a tooth.
There is a painted inscription in the bottom right which reads 'Haas 1792' although it is thought this was painted by John Collier, ...
The Eagle Tavern, Hammersmith
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting an exterior view of The Eagle Tavern public house in Hammersmith, London. It is signed and dated 'J. Chalmers 1857' in the bottom left. A sign on the left reads ...
The Fancy Dress Party
Margo Singer (fl. 1973) The Fancy Dress Party Oil on canvas 750mm x 495mm Scene at a fancy dress party, with four children in their costumes.
The Fleet Off-Shore
This is an oil painting on panel depicting the English fleet, including HMS Victory and HMS Kent, lying off the coast of Plymouth. It was painted by an artist from the English Provincial School, between ...
The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper - front cover
Front cover of 'The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper,' from 16 February 1895.
The illustration shows the lavish costume ball, Bal Poudre, hosted that year by the Countess of Warwick, Frances ...
The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper - illustration
Scenes from the powder ball (or 'bal poudre') at Warwick Castle, held in 1895.
The hostess, Frances Evelyn Brooke (the Countess of Warwick, also known as 'Daisy') was well known for staging such lavish ...
The King's Harms
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the King's Arms Inn in Manchester, with a mail coach stopped outside. It was painted by an artist of the English Provincial School, in about 1800. The artist ...
The Lowestoft Lifeboat
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the lifeboat from Lowestoft, Suffolk. It was painted by J. Starling about 1880. At this time, all lifeboat volunteers in England would have been men. Therefore ...
The Royal Ratcatcher
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the Royal Ratcatcher in a kitchen scene. Painted on the bottom right is a signature which can be read as 'J. Mark' or 'J Clark', but the date is unknown. ...
The West Bromwich Sweep
This is a watercolour on paper depicting a prize fighter. A caption at the bottom reads 'WEST BROMWICH SWEEP As he appeared at george Holdens after his fight with fred higgitt being waited on by Jem Parker ...
The Yacht Sunbeam in the Solent
This wool and silk picture shows the yacht 'Sunbeam' which was built in 1874 and scrapped in 1929. She was a 323-ton screw, composite, three-masted schooner, and one of the first yachts to sail around ...
The Yacht Sunbeam in the Solent - detail
This wool and silk picture shows the yacht 'Sunbeam' which was built in 1874 and scrapped in 1929. She was a 323-ton screw, composite, three-masted schooner, and one of the first yachts to sail around ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - men enjoying wine and fruit, title-page of part 2.
Characters in Shakespeare enjoyed an arbour in their garden scenes.
The practice of enjoying the out-of-doors over a simple meal, or a drink out-of-doors on a summer’s evening may have been the ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - p.25, gardeners prepare their beds..
Gardening: a task known to Shakespeare
Many of Shakespeare’s scenes are set in gardens. The plays indicate a familiarity with the tasks of setting seeds, weeding and raising plants for pleasure ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - text, p.A1r, gardeners at work..
Shakespeare’s gardeners in Richard II tended their garden in this way.
Thomas Hill’s handbook which explains the tasks of a garden’s care includes this woodcut of an arbour which ...
Three Sober Preachers
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting three preachers seated at a table drinking, and was painted by an artist of the English School about 1860. Three inscriptions behind the preachers read, 'I, ...
Tie, Automotive Products
This tie was worn by employees at Automotive Products, Leamington Spa. The tie has a beige silk lining and yellow embroidered motifs. 'A. P. / Leamington F.C.' is embroidered on the front of the tie.
Tippet
An Indian feather tippet with a long fabric stole. White feathers are attached to one side and multi-coloured feathers to the other. It dates to c.1875-1899.