EditorialPack of tobacco from the French era, Pack of tobacco from the French era. Square packet of tobacco of dirty beige paper with black lettering, on one side in Dutch, on the other in French. On top two times the eagle on a thunder cloud. Sealed with a str...
EditorialVenus and Mercury Figure of Mercury, Image of Mercury of porcelain on a round base, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple and gold. Mercury is wrapped in a floral dress and stands next to two tied bales, on which lies his lette...
EditorialA Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland. Date/Period: 1780. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 83.8 cm (32.9 in); Width: 142.2 cm (55.9 in).
EditorialCapt' Wilson invested with the order of the bone.' Henry Wilson (1740–1810) was an English naval captain of the British East India Company. He commanded the packet ship Antelope, when it shipwrecked off Ulong Island, near Koror Island in Palau (Pelew...
EditorialTitle page of a English-French dictionary. (to be found in every packet of Black cat cigarettes.). The Handy Black Cat English-French Dictionary, etc. no. 1. London : Carreras, 1915. The book is miniature in size. Source: C.0.d.17 Title page.
EditorialBritannia. The Hull Packet. Humberside, 7/7/1807. Masthead illustration depicting Britannia and and a male figure in the sea. Image taken from The Hull Packet. Originally published/produced in Humberside, 7/7/1807. . Source: Colindale, 1.
EditorialA Packet Boat off Dover. Dated: c. 1836. Dimensions: overall: 19.1 x 27.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache with touches of black chalk on gray wove paper, laid down.
EditorialDort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed. Date/Period: 1818. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,854 mm (72.99 in); Width: 2,591 mm (102 in).
EditorialThe Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig. Date/Period: 1836. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 61 cm (24 in); Width: 91.4 cm (35.9 in).
EditorialA Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland. Date/Period: 1780. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 83.8 cm (32.9 in); Width: 142.2 cm (55.9 in).
EditorialFigurehead from Schooner "Packet". Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 31.9 x 38.1 cm (12 9/16 x 15 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and heightening on paperboard.
EditorialA Packet Boat off Dover. Dated: c. 1836. Dimensions: overall: 19.1 x 27.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and gouache with touches of black chalk on gray wove paper, laid down.
EditorialUnidentified profile portrait, older woman facing right, 1773?1820, Silhouette, 5 1/8 ? 3 15/16 in. (13 ? 10 cm), Cut Paper, Anonymous, German, Wrapped in paper with five other profiles. Inscription on the packet in brown ink: Frau R?ntchen.
EditorialUnidentified profile portrait, woman facing left, 1773?1820, Silhouette, 3 3/4 ? 3 1/4 in. (9.5 ? 8.2 cm), Cut Paper, Anonymous, German, Wrapped in paper with five other profiles. Inscription on the packet in brown ink: Frau R?ntchen.
EditorialUnidentified profile portrait, woman facing left (Constanze Hauser?), 1773?1820, Silhouette, 4 15/16 ? 4 in. (12.5 ? 10.2 cm), Cut Paper, Anonymous, German, Wrapped in paper with five other profiles. Inscription on the packet in brown ink: Frau R?ntchen.
EditorialUnidentified profile portrait, woman facing left, 1773?1820, Silhouette, 3 13/16 ? 3 1/4 in. (9.7 ? 8.2 cm), Cut Paper, Anonymous, German, Wrapped in paper with five other profiles. Inscription on the packet in brown ink: Frau R?ntchen.
EditorialUnidentified profile portrait, man facing left, 1773?1820, Silhouette, 5 3/16 ? 3 7/8 in. (13.2 ? 9.8 cm), Cut Paper, Anonymous, German, Wrapped in paper with five other profiles. Inscription on the packet in brown ink: Frau R?ntchen.
EditorialDort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam, The Netherlands becalmed Inscribed, lower right: "Dort" Signed and dated, lower right: "JMW Turner RA 1818", Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British.
EditorialCharon's Boat or the Ghosts of all the Talents taking their last voyage, from the Pope's Gallery at Rome, A group of naked Whig politicians, including three Grenvilles, Sheridan, St. Vincent, Moira, Temple, Erskine, Howick, Petty, Whitbread, Sheridan, ...
EditorialCharon's Boat or the Ghosts of all the Talents taking their last voyage, from the Pope's Gallery at Rome, A group of naked Whig politicians, including three Grenvilles, Sheridan, St. Vincent, Moira, Temple, Erskine, Howick, Petty, Whitbread, Sheridan, ...
Editorial"See here, and here, and here," continued Lobster, in excellent tone and temper, turning over the leaves of a packet of oblong papers lying before him. "There is your signature.", 1880.