Antique Inventions

This gesture—simple yet highly effective in conveying the need for silence so as not to disturb the child’s sleep—is an invention derived from Michelangelo, and we find it in one of ...

Jefferies & Co. was based in Woolwich and was one of the earliest racket manufacturers in England, they are known to have produced the original rackets for Major Wingfield's inve...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Their popularity declined with the invention of photography. The back is numbered 6 14.

The relationship between the two works suggests a shared compositional origin, and may point to the existence of a common model or preparatory invention within the artist’s studio pr...

Such reflective figures appear frequently in late Gothic architectural sculpture, where culots, corbels, and consoles provided artists with spaces for narrative and symbolic inventio...

The Patented Process: Clay, originally an apprentice to the well-known bookbinder and typefounder John Baskerville, took over Baskerville's japanning business in Birmingham and later...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

It was whilst serving in the Artists Rifles that Cooper met Sir Barnes Wallis, best known for his invention the ‘bouncing bomb’, with the two becoming lifelong friends.

This multifaceted narrative, integrated into the landscape, enriches the meditative dimension of the work while highlighting its kinship with the inventions of Patinir. The attributi...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

In the foreground, in the centre, is a group of four figures in two pairs: two women sitting on the ground in mirror image and the other pair standing and talking. This imaginative i...

This evolution led to the creation of museums which, between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, became ideal venues for showcasing the discoveries emerging from r...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

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 Frantz brothers developed multiple companies with Kirby's inventions, and through them, James Kirby developed a close relationship with the Scott Fetzer manufacturing company who...

Lantern slides are an early photographic invention from 1850 intended for use with a 'magic lantern' projector.

Of the four angels, therefore, two were made in raw clay … and two with the papier-mâché technique … This type of process, therefore, illustrates the relationships between the sculpt...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The slight irregularities in the early wound balls made them quite lively, it was not until the invention of the automatic winding machine by John Gammeter (an engineer at Goodrich) ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Beer’s achievement lies precisely in this balance between formal invention and psychological intensity. He does not dissolve the sitter into abstraction, but rather redefines portrai...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

These lamps are definitively marked "A C Paris BPVETÉ" (likely A C Breveté), signifying they were a patented invention from a specialized Parisian manufacturer.

Fol. 14 from the book 'Methode et Invention Nouvelle de dresser les chevaux' Engraver: Lucas Emil I Vorsterman (1595–1675) Designer: Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596–1675) Author of th...

Comes from Cavendish's one volume "Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser Les Chevaux", (1737) (Second edition), which consists of 42 double-paged engravings.

The lively movement and expressive characterizations exemplify Rowlandson’s mastery of narrative illustration and comic invention. Above the image, the elaborate calligraphic title ...

It stands as a valuable testament to the virtuosity and spontaneity characteristic of 16th-century Italian drawing, where the graphic act itself becomes the privileged site of invent...

French school of the 19th century Monks excavate and find ancient relics Oil on canvas Not signed 56 x 46.5 cm (68 x 57.5 cm with the frame) Beautiful period frame in gilded wood Goo...

These wooden boards were used to smoothe and press linen before the invention of modern irons. Damp linen was wrapped around a roller and then the board was rocked back and forth ove...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

He gives some tales about the invention of each of the Orders, but he does not give a hard and fast set of canonical rules for the execution of capitals.

These wooden boards were used to smoothe and press linen before the invention of modern irons. Damp linen was wrapped around a roller and then the board was rocked back and forth ove...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

These field fillers — each one a small world of geometric invention — reward close inspection and give the rug an inexhaustible visual richness that flat photography cannot fully cap...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

A true German classic, exported worldwide, also to the US. The invention of the marble scissors in Lauscha by Elias Greiner in the mid-19th century led to a rapid increase in glass m...

The stunning design is placed upon a powder-blue ground, an important invention at the Wedgwood factory. Dimensions: 10 in.

Glass has been a prevalent feature of costume pieces since the invention of fashion jewellery. It's extremely suitable for meeting the ever challenging and changing demands of costum...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Wilson explains his invention in his patent for 'Swing Seat for Drays' on April 7, 1898, starting at line 12, "Drivers of heavy trucks and wagon experience much annoyance and often s...

He uses them with perfect freedom, according to his tendencies which are of elegance rather than strength, with a perpetual need for invention. He does not shrink from audacity, nor ...

These travels fundamentally shaped his oeuvre, grounding his Orientalist imagery in direct observation rather than romantic invention. The title Mashallah!—an Arabic expression mean...

He filed several patents for inventions that fuelled the major artistic movements of the 20th century, such as Surrealism and Dadaism.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

His famous Pensées and invention of the early mechanical calculator, the Pascaline, secured his legacy as a central figure of the 17th-century intellectual world.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The attribution of the painting to Antonio Zanchi is well founded both stylistically and in terms of the compositional invention of the canvas, despite the fact that Prometheus icono...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Reading platform - 33in x 17in (84cm x 43cm) Table surface height - 28in to 42.24in (71cm to 107.5cm) Base width - Note: John Carter of 6a New Cavendish Street, Portland-Place, Lon...