Antique Inventions

String boxes were essential desk and office accessories before the invention of scotch tape, which eliminated the need to tie up parcels, now they are cherished for their beauty and ...

This technique was especially popular before the invention of color printing processes, which allowed for mass production of colored images later in the 19th century.

In response to this new inventions made the production of wallpaper cheaper and quicker as new printing techniques meant that wallpaper was produced in continuous rolls and thousands...

Papworth, who is recorded as being involved in a number of innovative designs for Blades’ firm, in particular the invention of the rule-cut drop known as a ‘lob’. Papworth also desig...

His unique approach combined originality of invention with spontaneous energy supported by flawless draftsmanship.

His unique approach combined originality of invention with spontaneous energy supported by flawless draftsmanship.

His unique approach combined originality of invention with spontaneous energy supported by flawless draftsmanship.

His unique approach combined originality of invention with spontaneous energy supported by flawless draftsmanship.

A “goldsmith” work, the miniature requires great know-how and meticulous execution. The invention of photography and its generalization in the second half of the 19th century anno...

Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of the railways having made undertaking a Grand Tour rather easier than it had been half a century earlier - and reco...

Rouveyre Paris 1880. Bountiful Invention: Drawings by Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) and Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750), Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Exhibi...

This was a display of status at the time since few people had access to electricity upon its invention. Each piece in our shop is professionally rewired and in working order.

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

Observing a need for mortars in trench warfare, he designed an aerodynamic mortar shell with obturation grooves (see details at Brandt Mle 27/31) which has not substantially changed ...

In Italy it was especially Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) who had a deep interest in necromantic subjects and, in particular, he produced many paintings of this kind when he stayed in Flo...

This Madonna is portrayed with pleasing, youthful features; she tenderly support the Child Jesus and lightly cradles His foot which she holds between two fingers; a graceful, touchin...

*Pigs’ bladders were used for centuries, before the invention of the paint tube in 1841, to store their paints.

The representation in our painting of this Gospel passage, rarely depicted in ancient painting, is exemplified by an invention of Maerten de Vos (1532-1603) engraved by Jacques de Bi...

Oscar Andreae (fl.1860-1880) Pencil drawing Inscribed 'Schlossgarten - Juli 1861/ Baden Baden' Sheet 11 x 18.5cm Andreae spent much of the 1860s exploring Europe - the invention of ...

Electricity was a brand new invention in the late 1800s and American glass manufacturers developed novel approaches for concealing the electric light bulb, which was rather harsh to ...

Charles Christofle (1805-1863) took over his brother-in-law's bijouterie-joaillerie 'Maison Calmette' and changed the name to 'Société Charles Christofle et Cie' in 1831. Following t...

Painting, drawing and engraving share almost identical compositions and closely matching dimensions, offering a fascinating insight into the creation and dissemination of a Mannerist...

Antique print titled 'This New Design of my Invention, is most humbly inscrib'd to the Rt. Honble Robert Walpole (..)'.

Antique print titled 'The Elevation of a new design of my Invention in the Palatial Stile (..)'. Old engraving of the elevation of a new design dedicated to Lord Cadogan.

He gave him the two largest commissions he received for single series of designs—£150 for drawings and engravings of The Inventions to the Book of Job, and a like sum for those illus...

See Jennifer Montagu, Roman Baroque Sculpture: The Industry of Art, Yale University Press 1989, pp. 56-57) which consecrated the fortune of Michelangelo's invention: different versio...

Antique print titled 'Section of the Great Hall of my Invention being a Cube of 40 feet'. Section of a Great Hall.

“The modern poster as we know it–large, colorful images printed in quantities on paper–is a relatively modern invention, coming to a recognizable form just before the close of the 19...

“The modern poster as we know it–large, colorful images printed in quantities on paper–is a relatively modern invention, coming to a recognizable form just before the close of the 19...

Mike Ware describes Willis’s invention in his site Alternative Photography: “Despite the best endeavors of the founders of photography in the 1840’s, nearly fifty years were to elaps...

(including frame) Literature: 'Old Time Stories', Constable and Co. 1921, P. 143 William Heath Robinson was an artist and illustrator mainly associated with his gloriously complica...

The 19th century saw an increased fascination with aviation, thanks in part to hot air ballooning and the invention of Zeppelin dirigibles. But flight as we know it today, in fixed-w...

In addition to the successful invention of the flying Mercury, Giambologna acquired immense fame by making numerous other bronzes for the Florentine collectors of the time; his first...

He wrote L’Instruction du Roy en L'exercice de Monter à Cheval ("instruction of the King in the art of riding"), was tutor to King Louis XIII, and is credited with the invention of u...

In ceramic production all this is well evidenced by the success of the almost Coeval maolica of Filippo Comerio in Faenza, whose inventions skilfully sketched in manganese and veiled...

They are at once Americana, folk art and these in particular look sophisticated enough to bring a little esprit de Giacometti to your eclectic home. Invention of Benjamin Franklin!

On 19TH December 1796, Moses Lafount and Alexander Thomas and James Cox, glass manufactures of Falcon Glass House in Surrey, made an agreement to manufacture and sell Lafount’s new i...

The Napoleonic wars then brought the company into financial trouble. Thanks to the inventions, innovations, acquisitions and the use of new technological methods, the factory has bee...

Antique print titled 'This New Design of my Invention in the Theatrical Style, is most humbly inscrib'd to the Rt.

He also became involved in the promotion of various inventions, including his own designs for the improvement of railway cars.

Moccasins were once the norm in shoe-making and served as basic foot protection for many people in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas long before the invention of separate soles a...

The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.

Tsugaru nuri was a pure Japanese invention from Aomori prefecture, centralized in Hirosaki city, dated to Edo period.

The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.

The Swiss paid licensing fees to Elgin for many of their inventions in watchmaking. Patek Philippe even used Elgin’s technology in their Balance Wheels in the 1950’s.

Antique print titled 'This new design of my invention in the Theatrical style (..)'. View of a new building design in theatrical style to Paul Methnuen principal Secretary of Sta...

His works have never gone out of print and have been adapted continuously for the screen since the invention of Cinema. He was the creator of some of the world's most memorable chara...

Height: 9 1/4 inches (23.5 cm) Width: 25 1/2 inches (64.8 cm) Depth: 14 1/4 inches (36.2 cm) Charles Christofle (d. 1863) took over his brother-in-law's bijouterie-joaillerie 'M...

The Capriccio, an artistic genre that has made its way into Italian painting since the 17th Century, is characterized by the representation of fantastic architectures or prospective ...

The background display a brilliant verdant green overall, Around the fish a poetic hazy effect was emphasized for a visual complexity by Fuki-e (the blow painting), an invention in K...

In weekly issues Harper’s reported the news, entertained with literature, poetry and art, as well as educating its readers about world affairs and new inventions. It's woodcut engrav...

Originally in tin or bronze, the discovery of the glass mirror is a revolution: Its invention in Murano offers new possibilities for its use.

Han Dynasty art and inventions like paper still influence the world today.

This interplay between clarity and suggestion transforms the runner into something far greater than a sample—it becomes a meditation on creativity itself, where repetition meets inve...

Inscripted in the center, in imitation of a carved epigraph: "INVENTIONS / CAPRIC OF PRISONS / ALL ACQVA FORTE / DATED IN LVCE / BY YOUNG PEOPLE / BOUCHARD IN / ROME MERCANTE / AL CO...

At that time, technical innovations and inventions of new materials and tools, as well as improvements in piano design and construction, had allowed Bechstein to become one of the le...

• Grand Victorian jewelry After the incandescent bulb invention in 1870s, diamond jewelry started thriving like never before.

Due to the quality of his manufacturing, his name became a by-word amongst British Engineers for engineering excellence and many of his inventions are on display in the Science Museu...

The scholar Martin Sonnabend points out that "to achieve balance, rhythm, and overall harmony in inevitably meant to depart from the natural model and replace it with an 'ideal' inve...

The top perfectly unfolds and extends to reveal two sliding leaves, French or Flemish invention. The references are architectural, evoking the facades of castles or palaces.