EditorialNegative - Mount Martha, Victoria, 1950, An instructor with students in the Maryport Government Rehabilitation Centre Carpentry Shop. The girl on the left is making a table and the girl in the centre a fire screen.
EditorialAndreas von Behn, Gustaf H?rd of Segerstad (1654-1714), chamberlain, cabinet master, director of Str?msholm's stud farm, Karl XII, riding instructor, painting, 1694, watercolor on parchment, Height, 22 cm (8.6 inch), Width, 20.5 cm (8 inches), At a pap...
EditorialShorthand instructor; an adaptation of Sir Isaac Pitman's system of phonography or phonetic shorthand to verbatim reporting. Designed for class or self-instruction : Pitman, Isaac, Sir, 1813-1897.
EditorialGeuzennapje, Calabash-shaped wooden cup on foot. Handle on the belly. Inscription, on the belly: Praesens symbolicum Geusicum / acceptum est cum alijs similibus / mendicabulorum cucurbitis Bonnae quando / ea urbs recuperata est e schenkiani militis / m...
EditorialThe Rake's Levee (A Rake's Progress) 1735 A levee is a reception held by a monarch or other high-ranking person on arising from bed. Tom is spending his inheritance on suppliers of expensive (and in particular unnecessary) services who try to en...
EditorialView of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra), residence of Platon II (1737?1812), Metropolitan of Moscow (1775-1812). In 1757 he was called to be instructor in rhetoric at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra near Moscow. Here he became ...
EditorialThe peri instructor embraces the old ascetic to whom he has confided great powers. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.142. Language: Persian.
EditorialPeople climbing a tree to harvest the fruit. The Easy Instructor: or, the only method to make the orthography and pronunciation of the English language easy. Berwick, 1790. Source: 1212.k.55, frontispiece. Language: English.
EditorialGroup portrait of pilots trained by the Delhi Flying Club Ltd. All named as follows: 'Left to right: 1. Mr D.A. Telfer, 2. Mr Raj Bans Bahadur, 3. Mr J.A.B. G[?]ylls, 4. Mr R.E. Grant Govan (Vice-President), 5. Mr R.N. Chawla, 6. Mrs Horsman, 7. Mr Naw...
EditorialCaptain Robert Monteith (in the uniform of the Irish brigade). Monteith was recruited from the U.S. to command the Irish brigade raised by Roger Casement. He had served in the British Army. Monteith had joined the Irish Volunteers and become a drill in...
EditorialA lady presenting her servant with the 'Universal Family Cook'. On the right a man instructing another in the art of carving by referring to a print on that subject . The housekeeper's instructor; or, Universal family cook ... The sixth edition. London...
EditorialEnd of Psalm 78. Psalm 79 beginning with decorated initial 'Q', and border decoration. In the lower margin, archers practicing at the butts. Five longbowmen, the first two in the act of drawing the bow, stand behind the instructor, who, with bow and an...
EditorialAbbas Gregorius and a native of Hausa, 1848. Portraits of Abbas Gregorius, the celebrated instructor of Ludolf, an Amhara from Ethiopia, and native of Hausa, probably a West African. The Natural History of Man; comprising inquiries into the modifying i...
EditorialA scene in a kitchen. A man being instructed on how to carve meat. . The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery ... Proper rules for brewing malt liquor ... The complete art of carvin...
EditorialThe peri instructor embraces the old ascetic to whom he has confided great powers. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.142. Language: Persian.
EditorialIstruzione elementare per gli studiosi della scultura, 1802, Firenze, Italy; Pisa, Italy, 4 unnumbered pages, XXXVII pages, XVII leaves of plates : illustrations ; Height: 11 7/16 in. (29 cm), Francesco Carradori (1747-1824) was a Florentine sculptor a...
EditorialDouble-white tree peony, Paeonia moutan albida plena. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Thomas Allport from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1834. Allport (1804-1879) was a miniature pai...
EditorialTHE RECENT REBELLION IN CANADA: ON THE TRAIL AFTER BIG BEAR, TRANSPORT WAGONS IN MUKEG (MOSSY BOG) (LEFT); ESCAPE OF FARM INSTRUCTOR APPLEGARTH AND HIS WIFE FROM THE STONY INDIANS (RIGHT).
EditorialThe Rake's Levee (A Rake's Progress) 1735 A levee is a reception held by a monarch or other high-ranking person on arising from bed. Tom is spending his inheritance on suppliers of expensive (and in particular unnecessary) services who try to en...
EditorialView of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra), residence of Platon II (1737?1812), Metropolitan of Moscow (1775-1812). In 1757 he was called to be instructor in rhetoric at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra near Moscow. Here he became ...