EditorialChildren with cat and sheet music Amusement de la jeunesse. (title on object), child (at home), child (at home) - AA - girl, cat, vocal music, singing, Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (mentioned on object), 1762, paper, engraving, h 389 mm ? w 270 mm.
EditorialAn illustrated bible page. 'The ships of Solomon came once in three years and brought gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.'. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select passages in the Old and New Testament, represented with ... emblematical fig...
EditorialA " Fiaker", a coachman who drives a horsecab, in front of the Vienna opera. " Fiaker" are a Vienna institution, used by tourists and by Viennese children during the traditional drive to the Prater amusement park after confirmation....
EditorialCountry Amusement. "- Monsieur did not want to wait for his nephew; and Madame thought it might soon start raining, but he didn't really bother. - What an old miser! - Don't you worry, Mother Poirier, he'll pay dearly for that... more than the market p...
EditorialWoman Observing Women Changing, right sheet of the triptych Illustration of the Amusement at the Hot Springs of Mitsuuji. Date: fourth month 1861. Dimensions: 38 cm x 25 cm.
EditorialForeign Men and Women Playing Instruments with a View of a Bay, right sheet of the triptych Foreigners at an Amusement Banquet. Date: twelfth month 1860, Edo.
EditorialView of Roslyn Chapel, at the Diorama. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, etc. London, 4th March 1826. Source: PP.5681.(7), page 129. Language: English.
EditorialAn account of a hippopotamus brought to England from Egypt. There is a date 1799 written at the bottom of the text. 'Just arrive, a live boos potamous, or the river cow of Egypt, from the banks of the Nile ... Collectanea: or, A collection of advertise...
EditorialKaut pootlies, or puppets, exhibited by native jugglers, for the amusement of European children. The costume and customs of modern India. London, c.1824. Source: X 380, plate XVIII. Language: English.
EditorialA account of a rhinoceros brought to London and exhibited at the Lyceum. There is a date of 1790 below the text. Collectanea: or, A collection of advertisements and paragraphs from the newspapers, relating to various subjects. Publick exhibitions and p...
EditorialIllustration showing a a woman reading to two children, a boy and a girl. A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the instruction and amusement of little Master Tommy and pretty Miss Polly, etc. John Marsall: London, England [c. 1790.]. Source: CH.77...
EditorialRoyal Aquarium, Westminster. Samson, the strongest man on Earth. 1889. Strong man breaking chains with his bicep. A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscellaneous printed matter relating to Victorian entertainment and everyday life. David Allen ...
Editorial'The Oran-Outang. At the Zoological society's gardens. Regent's park. A female orang-utang given the name 'Jane'. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction. London, January 13 1838. Source: P.P.5681 volume xxxi, opposite p.16.
EditorialAn illustrated bible page. 'The ships of Solomon came once in three years and brought gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.'. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select passages in the Old and New Testament, represented with ... emblematical fig...
EditorialGod appearing to Adam and Eve. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select passages in the Old and New Testament, represented with ... emblematical figures for the amusement of youth ... To which is added, a short account of the lives of the Evangelists,...
EditorialFolio from the Kathasaritsagara, ca. 1590, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 12 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (32.4 x 20.6 cm), Codices, This folio is from a vast compilation of tales in Sanskrit written by the eleventh-century poet Som...
Editorial"VICTORY": LADIES TILTING AT THE RING IN TENERIFE, 1897: Tilting at the ring is a favourite amusement with ladies and gentlemen visiting the Canary Islands. At most of the hotels there are courses laid out for tournaments, decorated with flags and foli...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...
EditorialBögelund: "Tivoli Revyen". Denmark, 1917. Colour lithograph, 91.5 x 73.5cm. Advertisement poster for the Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark.
EditorialA " Fiaker", a coachman who drives a horsecab, in front of the Vienna opera. " Fiaker" are a Vienna institution, used by tourists and by Viennese children during the traditional drive to the Prater amusement park after confirmation....