EditorialTwo images of operations by grinding and with the help of a bellows, Print marked upper right: fol. 9, smashing, crushing (industrial processes), bellows, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1693, paper, etching, h 139 mm ? w 85 mm.
EditorialExplosive Projectile for Whale Killing, Exploding bullet, incomplete. It has a cylindrical housing made of brass, with a movable chimney screwed into the more or less pointed top. A smashing cap must be placed on the chimney, which hits a crossbar insi...
EditorialPsalm 83; fighting with pitchers. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 83. Border decoration; in the lower margin two grotesques, with the upper bodies of bearded men, and the hindquarters of beasts, fight with ...
EditorialFigures on a rocky shore; waves smashing against the cliffs; boats on the water; a cottage on a cliff path. SELECT VIEWS of the ISLE of WIGHT, & its ENVIRONS, Plate 12th. View of the Needles. London : Published Jan 1 1809 James Daniell & Co No480 Stran...
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, Humphry Clinker Smashing a Dish at Dinner..., an illustration from Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (London, 1793), Vol. 1, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, Artist, After, Thomas Rowlandson, Charles Gri...
EditorialDish with the Chinese story of Sima Guang, ca. 1700?1720, Japanese, for European market, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type), Diameter: 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, Sim...
EditorialEnglish dandies smashing a street lantern in Paris. Dick and his Companions Smashing the Glim or a Spree by Lamp-light. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wil...
EditorialHarrow School boys smashing crockery in Hog Lane, 1825. The Tea Pot Row at Harrow, or the Battle of Hog Lane. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudon...
EditorialTwo skeletons of Death interrupt a Waggoner on the road, killing his horse, smashing his waggon and opening his wine barrels. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein, Coxhead, London, 1816.