Antique Bark

A clean buff background allows the jewel-bright plumage to dominate, while the spare inclusion of moss and bark lends context without distraction. William Hayes (1735–1802) was a se...

Antique Sailor's Woolie of the American Protected Cruiser "USS Chicago", circa 1885, a sailor's hand crafted folk art woolwork picture of a bark-rigged auxiliary steam sailor with in...

Hayes, however, is best known for selecting and re-fitting the merchant collier Earl of Pembroke as a Royal Navy bark for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean under the command ...

This work comes from the extremely scarce edition on Imperial Japon paper, a mulberry bark-based stock inspired by the smooth-surfaced papers used in Japanese printmaking.

This work comes from the extremely scarce edition on Imperial Japon paper, a mulberry bark-based stock inspired by the smooth-surfaced papers used in Japanese printmaking.

The ship's two screws were powered by two compound overhead beam steam engines and the ship also had three masts, rigged as a bark in order to increase crusing range. It's likely th...

A rare patinated bronze group of a monkey in the guise of a Jockey riding a racehorse, startled by a barking dog at his feet. French, Dated 1846.

While a much larger edition of Vin Mariani was created on regular paper, this example comes from the extremely scarce edition of 25 strikes on Imperial Japon paper, a mulberry bark-b...

The American Merchant Bark at the center of this painting is rendered in excellent detail, from her house flag and pennant, to her rigging and sails, and down to her deck filled with...

The black exterior features a highly textured surface that resembles tree bark. The underside, which in most cases covered with a simple layer of monochrome lacquer, was lavishly dec...

Piano hinges assist each door in opening and the back of the doors are lined with a gorgeous vintage bark cloth with a fun retro vibe and black stemware racks on both upper doors.

He also ensured that all the strongest and healthiest leaders of the flock of Laban would drink near the barked branches, thus assuring a genetic superiority to his part of the flock.

In the distance several neoclassical structures with castles and houses, all in the middle of trees, three sheep and a barking dog. The bottom, the inside and all sides of the out...

They have thin pointed down-curved bills, which they use to extricate insects from bark. They have stiff, pointed tail feathers, like woodpeckers and woodcreepers, which they use to ...

Showing the view due north with St Paul’s Cathedral in the distance, Miller’s characteristic interest in the incidental detail of London life means that the scene is animated with be...

Here the artist has focused on a thicket of oak trees, suggesting the texture of the bark, twisted sinews and root systems with his spirited pen work using a skein of circles and tin...

Hart and lithographed by Hullmandel and Walton, depicts two black and pale yellow-colored woodpeckers, one with brown on its breast, perched on a tree limb with sage colored bark an...

This work comes from the extremely scarce edition of 25 strikes on Imperial Japon paper, a mulberry bark-based stock inspired by the smooth-surfaced papers used in Japanese printmaki...

Commissioned as His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, she departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun.

"Ram Eating Bark" is an original etching by Karel DuJardin. DuJardin completed many delicate etchings of rams. 3 3/4" x 7 3/4" art 16 3/8" x 19 1/8" frame Du Jardin was a master ...

Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped f...

The detail of the foliage, bark, and feather texture reflects the precision of Sepp’s engraving combined with rich contemporary hand-colouring.

Anchoring the center of the design is an eagle perched on the branch of a blooming cherry tree, its talons clenching the bark and its wings about to open. The motion of the its immed...

A few others followed him, and, on reaching the opposite shore, he said, “Come, let us go to the man who sings so well, and is beating the drum,” when a dog barked, and they feared t...

Glass canoe; sterling silver bow and stern with mounted feathers; birch bark represented by irregular notching. Jokey sophistication evocative of olden days indigenous life.

Our portrait is prominently signed with the monogram “G.C.” seemingly carved into the bark of the tree at left. The motif of the tree with small circular wood wounds was one to which...

A ram lowers its horns in a face off with a barking dog that rises on its haunches. An ox turns its head to watch the row.