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Ferme ornée; or rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. Consisting Of Fences, Paddock Houses, A Bath, A Dog-Kennel, Pavilions, Farm-Yards, Fishing-Houses, Sporting-Boxes, Shooting-Lodges, Single And Double Cottages, &c. Calculated for landscape and picturesque effects. Engraved on thirty-eight plates. With Appropriate Scenery, Plans, and Explanations. By John Plaw, Architect.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Ferme ornée; or Rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. Consisting of fences, paddock houses, a bath, a dog-kennel, pavilions, farm-yards, fishing-houses, sporting-boxes, shooting-lodges, single and double cottages, &c. Calculated for landscape and picturesque effects. Engraved on thirty eight plates. With appropriate scenery, plans, and explanations. By John Plaw, architect.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. Consisting of fences, paddock houses, a bath, a dog-kennel, pavilions, farm-yards, fishing houses, sporting-boxes, shooting-lodges, single and double cottages, &c. Calculated for landscape and picturesque effects. Engraved in aqua-tinta on thirty eight plates. With appropriate scenery, plans, and explanations. By John Plaw, architect. Author of rural architecture, and sketches for cottages, villas, &c.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: 1800- Pictures
An intarsia box (?): radiograph. Photograph by Sir G.P. Glyn, ca. 1896.
Glyn, Gervas Powell, 1862-1921.Date: [1896?]Reference: 44762iPart of: Glyn, Gervas Powell, 1862-1921- Pictures
A young woman holding up a casket on a dish as she looks back over her shoulder. Engraving by J. Heath after Titian.
Titian, approximately 1488-1576.Date: [1795?]Reference: 3046057i- Pictures
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Inlayers' workshop: inlaying of various designs on snuff-boxes, and a selection of boring tools used. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 36894i- Ephemera
Elements : arsenic, iodine, oxygen and mercury ; Friday, 8 April, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome Collection.Date: 2011- Ephemera
London's dreadful visitation: or, A collection of all the bills of mortality for this present year : beginning the 27th of December 1664, and ending the 19th of December following: as also, the general or whole years bill: according to the report made to the King's most excellent Majesty / by the Company of Parish-Clerks of London. &c.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]- Pictures
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Rebecca admires the clothes and jewellery given to her by Abraham's servant. Watercolour painting by Juliana Howard, 1824.
Howard, Juliana, Lady, active 1824.Date: 1824Reference: 15886i- Pictures
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Japanese box (Buxus microphylla): branch with leaves. Coloured pen drawing by S. Kawano.
Kawano, S.Reference: 22569i- Pictures
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Common box tree (Buxus sempervirens L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18221i- Pictures
Five pictures: two labels with ornamentation; an Indian smoking by a barrel; cherubs carrying a cigar; Havanna cigars and box. Wood-engravings.
Reference: 25025i- Pictures
A young woman wearing a crown is dressed by three maids, one of whom prepares to adorn her with a necklace; she is watched by a seated man on the left. Stipple engraving, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3039104i- Ephemera
The Royal Mercatorium, or St. James's Bazaar : for the encouragement of inventive genius and industrious merit, presents to the nobility, gentry, and the public, an elegant promenade, commanding, at one view, a brilliant display of every fashionable and useful article, which can be combined in an establishment of this nature... no. 29, St. James's Street.
Date: [1816]- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine stock in trade of the late Mr. John Frankland, jeweller and filagree-worker, consisting of a Variety of Diamond-Rings, Ear-Rings, loose Stones, Watches, Snuff-Boxes, and exceeding fine Filagree-Work; Which (by Order of the Administrator) will be sold bye auction, By Mr. Gerard, At his House in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, On Wednesday, the 18th, and Thursday, the 19th, of December, 1776, beginning each Day at Five O'Clock precisely. To be viewed on Tuesday, the 17th, and each Day of Sale, from Eleven O'Clock till Three. Catalogues to be had at the Bank Coffee-House, and at Mr. Gerard's, aforesaid.
Gerard, Mr. (John), -1794.Date: 1776]- Pictures
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Medicine man : I'll take care of you.
Ohiri, KarlDate: 2013Reference: 3015984i- Pictures
Common box twig (Buxus sempervirens) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 January 1831Reference: 24184i- Ephemera
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Dame Trot : to market, to market went little Dame Trot, Sunlight Soap for mother the pretty maid got... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
Lever Brothers Ltd.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Ephemera
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Harvey's Midgets : Princess Lottie : 20 inches in height, 14 years of age, actual weight 9 lbs.
Date: [1883?]- Ephemera
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Horlick's Malted Milk Company / Horlick's Malted Milk Co.
Horlick's Malted Milk Company.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Pictures
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Huru (Hura crepitans L.) and bull bay (Magnolia grandiflora L.): detailed flower and fruit segments with description. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.Date: [1750-53]Reference: 18372i- Books
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The litterary cards, being a new invention to learn to read, and speedily acquire the greatest Knowledge in Calculation without Pains or Trouble. Likewise directions to play all the most usual games on the cards and dice, without either Box or Dice. The whole adorned with historical, geographical, and moral instructions, and embellished with forty-eight heads of illustrious personages, And other ornamental Engravings, curiously done on copper-plates, By the most Eminent Artists. The whole comprehending a great Variety of useful Knowledge, and peculiarly adapted for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of both Sexes. Wrote in English and French, by Thomas Foubert.
Foubert, Thomas.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
[Box of miscellaneaous pamphlets].
Date: 1895-1987- Books
The boke named The gouernour / deuised by Sir Thomas Elyot Knyght.
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.Date: 1553- Books
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The essayes or covnsels, civill and morall / of Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscovnt St. Alban.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626Date: 1625