Kidney form mirror, engraved on the back with scroll-pattern and basket-pattern. The excellent condition suggests it was buried with the owner and not thrown away.

At the end of the Napoleonic wars, Edridge was one of the first British artists to cross the Channel for sketching tours. He made an excursion to Paris and Normandy in 1817 and again two years later.

The five works are: Frog and Ox; Hare and Tortoise; Gnat and Lion; Frog, Mouse and Kite; Peacock and Magpie (main illustration). One of the prime objectives of the Fry Art Gallery is to collect and ...

The money to buy The Luttrell Psalter came from the prominent American banker John Pierpont Morgan who gave an interest free loan to the British Museum for a year. If the Museum failed to repay the ...

Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753) was a celebrated virtuoso and amateur architect, knighted by Willliam III in 1699. Roubiliac derived his portraits of Fountaine from the medallic portrait by Jacques ...

This view from the Cascade Terrace records the appearance of Chiswick House and gardens in the 1740s, by which time Lord Burlington had largely completed the design of the gardens he had begun, in ...

This is one of a collection of 66 works bequeathed to Pallant House by Charles Kearley. Kearley was a builder and property developer. Kearley built a small block of flats in Kensington in the later ...

Sent by Abraham to find a bride for his son Isaac, Eliezer chooses the girl who gives him water both for himself and for his ten camels. In this painting Eliezer is drinking at the well while a group ...

This is a portrait of Fergusson's wife Margaret Morris who the artist met in Paris in 1913. Margaret was an important dancer and artist and the two worked on many dance projects together. They moved ...

Obverse: diademed head of Queen Victoria and the legend 'VICTORIA REGINA'. Reverse: A lion representing Africa depicted crouching in a token of submission in front of a Protea bush, above the words ...