A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is an oil painting on canvas dating from about 1860 depicting a scene from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The artist was W. Balls, and his signature is in the bottom left hand ...
A Morning's Tally
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a dog which has caught three rats. There is a painted inscription which reads BOXER 1836. On the right of the painting is a house, and it is likely that this ...
A Pair of Pigs
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting two prize pigs. During the 19th century paintings of farm animals became a recognised genre, as, in an attempt to produce bigger and better livestock, itinerant ...
A Surprising Incident
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a surprising incident which occurred during an attempt to slaughter a horse in July 1811. The caption at the bottom of the picture describes this as 'An Instance ...
A Terrible Shipwreck
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the shipwreck of several ships in a fierce storm and was painted by T.L Morilyan R.N. in 1870. Local people can be seen on the beach watching the activity and ...
A. Marshall, Dyer and Scourer
This is an oil painting depicting the premises of A. Marshall, Dyer and Scourer in St Ann's Street in Nottingham and which was painted by Arthur Goodwin in 1898. In the lower right corner is inscribed ...
Abraham Offering Up His Son Issac
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a story from the Old Testament in which Abraham offers up his son Isaac to be sacrificed when an angel, seen in the top left corner of the painting, appears ...
Admiral Lord Exmouth
This is an ink, watercolour and gouache on paper portrait of Admiral Lord Exmouth, and a painted inscription along the bottom reads 'The Appearanc [sic] of Admirll [sic] Lord Exmouth from his Hedgecumb ...
Agate Egg
An agate egg, the stone is polished and has black and white veins running through it.
Agate Stone Ball
A stone ball made of polished agate with dark green and white veins.
Agate Stone Ball
A stone ball made of polished agate with orange and white veins.
Antique China And Chinese Vase
William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881-1941) Antique China And Chinese Vase Oil on canvas 660mm x 480mm A painting depicting a large central vase, with smaller vases to each side. There is a plate containing ...
Antler Cone
The use of this antler cone is uncertain. It may have been a pendant. Alternatively, it could have been a symbolic amulet, perhaps to encourage fertility, or even a miniature drinking horn.
AD 410 ...
Barley Jug - side
This jug is made from Staffordshire pottery and is thought to have belonged to Mr. Robert Evans, the father of local author George Eliot.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress ...
Bear Baiting
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting bear baiting. Once a popular spectacle in towns, bear baiting in Britain has been illegal since 1835. Shortly after it was banned, illegal bear baiting was ...
Bone Comb
Two fragments of a double-sided, bone comb with central strengthening plates fastened with iron rivets.
6th Century A.D.
129mm long x 43mm wide
1922/23 excavations (Grave 152)
Bottle
This gourd bottle is from Liberia. The gourd has decorative carving over it's surface. The hook at one end is pierced. There is an old museum label attached to the bottle, it reads: "GOURD WITH STOPPER ...
Bottle
This gourd bottle is from Cameroon. The gourd has decorative carving of lines and diamonds over it's surface. There is an old museum label attached to the bottle. It can not be removed as it is now part ...