EditorialBonhams Knightsbridge's Film, Rock and Pop sale on 17 November where the Yamaha G3 acoustic grand piano, used on records by Paul Weller, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Ash, The Manic Street Preachers and, most famously, Oasis's (What's The Story)
EditorialTwenty four plates of veneer, covered with newspapers on the back, decorated with marquetry of flowers and ornaments, decorated with marquetry of flowers and ornaments. The plates are stuck on newsprint paper from 1880, 1881, 1883 and 1891. Intended fo...
EditorialFragment of painted wallpaper with columns, flowers and a basket of ears of corn, Fragment of paper wallpaper on linen in green-blue, pink, black and partially heightened with gold. Partly painted, partly printed. The wallpaper shows columns with an el...
EditorialDeath Notice - Mary Ann Nairn, Placed by Daughter Sarah, Aug 1920, Alternative Name(s): Newspaper Cutting, Newspaper Clipping Death notice placed in an unknown Victorian newspaper by Sarah Jackson in memory of her mother Mary Nairn. Mary died on 27 Aug...
EditorialChequebook - Messrs Henty & H (illegible), Merino Downs, Portland, 1893, Bank of Australia chequebook issued to Messrs Henty & H (illegible), Merino Downs, Portland, Victoria. The used cheque stubs, dated between 17 August and 18 December 1893, provide...
EditorialNegative - Classroom, Catholic School, Glen Iris, Victoria, 1955, One of approximately 85,000 negatives from the Laurie Richards Collection taken by the Melbourne based Laurie Richards Studio between the 1950s -1970s. Laurie Richards was a professional...
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. Free newspapers (with the Hungarian national emblem) reappeared.
Editorial"- Please no exaggerations in this article which goes to all the newspapers. Write only that our pupil Greluchot has received fourteen prizes and that there is no doubt that the Institute Bilboquet is the finest in all of Paris!," plate 27 from Profess...
EditorialLetter Carriers room arranged for the dispatch of newspapers in the evening, General Post Office. The Royal Mail handled 100,000 newspapers a day between 6pm and 8pm. Steel engraving by Ellis after an illustration by Gilbert from London Interiors, Thei...
EditorialA balloon in danger at sea. Major John Money, after taking off from Ranelagh, near Norwich, was blown out to over the North sea, and ditched at night. A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspapers ... 1780?-1810?. The perilous situation of Major...
EditorialMr. Lunardi making an experiment. A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspape. 1780?-1810?. Representation of Mr. Lunardi making an experiment on the Thames, of his invention, to save persons from drowning. Image taken from A collection of broa...
EditorialSig. Lunardi rescued at sea. A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspape. 1780?-1810?. Sig. Lunardi, ascended at Edinburgh and descended near the Isle of May, Dec. 1785. Image taken from A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspapers, eng...
EditorialA messieurs les souscripteurs. The landing of a balloon. A collection of broadsides and cuttings ... 1780?-1810?. The inhabitants of Gonesse, in France, alarmed by the landing of a balloon on August 27. The details below the plate refer to Montgolfier,...
EditorialA balloon in danger at sea. Major John Money, after taking off from Ranelagh, near Norwich, was blown out to over the North sea, and ditched at night. A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspapers ... 1780?-1810?. The perilous situation of Major...
EditorialCricket, played by the Gentlemen's club, White Conduit House, Islington. Six prints of manly recreation, as practised in public places in and about London. A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertisements, playbills, etc. II. Carlisle House and...
EditorialThe eccentric Duchess of Queensbury fencing with her protégé the creole, Soubise (otherwise "Mungo".) Rare caricature by William Austin, published May 1, 1773. Collectanea: or, A collection of advertisements and paragraphs from the newspapers, relati...
EditorialVarious circus acts involving a horse. In one, Philip Astley is vaulting from one horse to another, over a rope. [A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspapers, engravings, etc., of various dates, formed by Miss S. S. Banks. Bound in nine volume...
EditorialLe élèphants de la pagode.' 2 acte. Déjeuner. Galerie dramatique. Theatre du cirque olympique. A coloured illustration of two performing elephants. Both are wearing a caparison, with gold trmming. [A collection of cuttings from newspapers, advertise...
EditorialThe Battle of the Balloons. A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspape. 1780?-1810?. The Battle of the Balloons. A prediction of air warfare. Image taken from A collection of broadsides, cuttings from newspapers, engravings, etc., of various d...
Editorial'A great economist'. "His majesty reads the newspapers without the aid of glasses and by the light of a single candle". Political Sketches of H. B. [i.e. John Doyle. A series of coloured lithographic prints.] no. 1-757. London, 1829-43. Source: Tab.435...
EditorialFriar Pedro clubs El Maragato with the butt of the gun, 1806. Oil on panel, 30.3 x 39.9 cm. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a passionate chronicler of the spectrum of human experience, from the mundane to the most brutal political eve...
EditorialFriar Pedro clubs El Maragato with the butt of the gun, 1806. Oil on panel, 30.3 x 39.9 cm. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a passionate chronicler of the spectrum of human experience, from the mundane to the most brutal political eve...
EditorialThe Public Viewing David?s 'Coronation' at the Louvre, 1810, Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 32 1/2 in. (61.6 x 82.6 cm), Paintings, Louis L?opold Boilly (French, La Bass?e 1761?1845 Paris), Here the public views David's enormous painting of Napoleon crowning ...
EditorialCheckerboard and Playing Cards, Paris, 1915, Gouache, graphite, and resin on cream-colored wove paper, mounted to paperboard, 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (21 x 29.8 cm), Drawings, Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887?1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine), Many Cubist artworks de...
EditorialLetter Carriers room arranged for the dispatch of newspapers in the evening, General Post Office. The Royal Mail handled 100,000 newspapers a day between 6pm and 8pm. Steel engraving by Ellis after an illustration by Gilbert from London Interiors, Thei...
EditorialBreakfast Room of the Old Bell Inn, Scarborough. Guests drinking coffee, reading newspapers, eating breakfast in a Regency room. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson, aquatint by J. Bluck, after a sketch by J. Green from Poetical Ske...
EditorialParisians reading the public prints (newspapers) in the gardens of the Tuileries. An old woman runs the newsstand under an umbrella. Her customers are gentlemen, soldiers and jobbers (stockbrokers). Handcoloured aquatint engraving after an illustration...
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. Free newspapers (with the Hungarian national emblem) reappeared.
Editorial" A l'Egide de Minerve", in the sign of Minerva, goddess of reason, a golden age of tolerance unites people of different creeds, permits travel and the dissemination of books and newspapers. Oil on wood, 64.5 x 85.5 cm.
EditorialA Vienna coffeehouse at the beginning of the 19th. Patrons play chess, read newspapers, an Armenian merchant watches the chess players. Armenians seem to have made coffee popular in Vienna.
EditorialRichard Wagner came to Paris in September 1891 for the Paris firstnight of his " Lohengrin". Newspapers attacked him violently for his " bad music" and for having been a German nationalist 20 years previously. Wagner's glasses and a...
EditorialThe first uncensored newspapers are sold in the streets of Vienna after the revolution of 1848. Watercolour by Johann Nepomuk Hoefel,20,5 x 27 cm Inv.88677.