Backscratcher
This backscratcher is made from a long thin wooden stick with a small ivory human hand at one end. This was a popular design in the 1770s. During this period the fashion for large powdered wigs and the ...
Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - [?18th century] plate, illustration inserted p.67
A disobedient servant in Shakespeare's England.
Every Elizabethan home employed servants to assist with the daily tasks of housekeeping. Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew ...
Busk Stay
This finely carved busk stay was made in the 18th Century. Busk stays, also known as broad busks, were worn at the front of a corset to give a smooth line to the bodice and encourage the wearer to stand ...
Figures In Eighteenth Century Costume
Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945)
Figures In Eighteenth Century Costume, 1890
Watercolour and pastel on paper
440mm x 365mm
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund in 1949. The painting shows ...
Horn beaker
This tapered beaker is decorated with a scene of a coach and a manor house. This type of beaker had the advantage of being light, washable, and inexpensive. Its transparency highlights the decoration, ...
Horn beaker
This tapered beaker is decorated with a coach, buildings and trees, and with initials I.P. and J.F. on the side. This type of beaker had the advantage of being light, washable, and inexpensive. Its transparency ...
Horn beakers - four examples
L to R:
Beaker with a coach and a gentleman riding his horse, with buildings beyond
Beaker with a coach and various buildings, including an inn, and a leaf design around the rim
Beaker with a ...
Illustration For 'The Sphere'
Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945)
Illustration For 'The Sphere'
Watercolour and pastel on paper 290mm x 330mm
Presented by the National Art Collections Fund in 1949. The painting shows a woman in ...
Moving Toy - drinking man
This figure has a painted papier-mache head, and wears its original clothes. The silk coat and trousers are now in poor condition, with the silk fibres shredding and breaking away.
The figure holds ...
Old Man and Donkey
This is a collage of fabric, watercolour, ink and charcoal on paper depicting an old postman with his donkey and was made by George Smart in 1833. An inscription on the reverse reads 'G. Smart, Artist ...
Pocket Watch
A silver-hallmarked pocket watch and case from London. The watch has a white face with Roman numerals, an indented decoration, and the minutes figuring round the outer rim of the dial. The verge movement ...
Pocket Watch
A London-hallmarked pocket watch with a silver case. It has a white face with Roman numerals telling the hours and numerals telling the minutes. There is also an indented ornamentation and gold or gilt ...
Pocket Watch
A pocket watch, from Birmingham. The watch case is made of black metal with a gold/gilt covering. The watch has a lace-white enamel face with Roman numerals and seconds figured on the outside. There is ...
Pocket Watch
A gold-cased pocket watch. The initials I.B. and the date, 1764, are scratched into the interior of the case. There is some filigree gold ornamentation on the movement. The watch has a white face with ...
Pocket Watch
A London-hallmarked pocket watch with a silver cylindrical case, gold/gilt verge movement and ornamented hands. It has a white face with Roman numerals telling the hours and numerals telling the minutes. ...
Pocket Watch
A verge movement from a pocket watch, without a case or face. It has a gold/gilt pierced filigree ornamentation, and was made by Ben Gray of London, 1676-1714.
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 ...
Prize Bull and Prize Cabbage
This is an oil painting on panel depicting a prize bull and prize cabbage, as well as a house, dog and a woman. It is signed and dated in the bottom left corner, 'Williams 1802' and it is likely this ...