Antique Vice

Hence the meaning of the phrase Deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum, that is, '' I have placed my delights among the children of man '', because they are innocent and pure, and the...

Railroad Executive and he served as the First Vice President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (CB&Q).

He was one of the outstanding designers of furniture in the Art Nouveau style, and after 1901 formally served as one of the vice-presidents of the École de Nancy. The Majorelle fi...

Railroad Executive and he served as the First Vice President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (CB&Q).

TITLE: Trial of the Assassins and Conspirators for the Murder of Abraham Lincoln, and The Attempted Assassinations Of Vice-President Johnson And The Whole Cabinet. PUBLISHER: Philad...

He returned to Liverpool in 1810, and was a founder member of the Liverpool Academy, becoming vice-president in 1812-13, and exhibiting his work on and off there for several years.

Grosz used such imagery to critique the moral decay and "vices" he saw in Berlin following World War I. The figures' exaggerated, almost grotesque features are meant to expose the "h...

Railroad Executive and he served as the First Vice President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (CB&Q).

Such caricatural treatment was typical of ROSTA visual language, where symbolic characters represented social vices, political opponents, profiteers, reactionaries, or other figures ...

He became an active and influential member of the National Academy of Design, serving as its first Vice President from 1949 to 1950, and was also elected President of the American Wa...

Thynne — A member of the prominent Thynne family of Longleat, an influential English aristocratic family connected with politics and patronage. Vice Chamberlain Cook — A court offic...

Railroad Executive and he served as the First Vice President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (CB&Q).

Although McKinley initially appeared to be recovering from his wounds, infection set in and worsened and he died on September 14. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as Pr...

In 1858 he joined HM British Consular Service, and the following year was a student interpreter at Hong Kong, being appointed third assistant at Tientsin in 1861 and promoted to Acti...

Many of the officers and directors of the Institution were wealthy landowners in Carmansville, including its First Vice President Shepherd Knapp, and directors William Beekman and Da...

The globe is inscribed with continental names, while beneath it lie potent symbols of mortality and human vice, including bottles labelled Drugs, Opium, Arsenic, and Gunpowder, along...

He was one of the founders of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he became vice-president. Lhermitte initially produced charcoal drawings which revealed his deep feelin...

For example, he was commissioned to do a sculpture of Daniel Thompkins, an American vice president, for the garden at St. Mark’s in The Bowery historic church in lower Manhattan, by ...

Career Ludington, in 1927, as first vice-president, National LWV, on the steps of the Washington headquarters Ludington was a founding member of the Old Lyme Equal Suffrage League i...

This finely cast and chased bronze portrays a Renaissance armourer seated at his bench, hammer in hand, working on a decorated gauntlet. His vice, tools and already made shield featu...

Recorded as having died in Prague on April 2, 1692, Baron von Wopping is commemorated here by Christoph Helfried Freiherr von Wopping, an Imperial vice-colonel, who commissioned the ...

Louis Majorelle, École de Nancy, Art Nouveau, France / Français, Circa 1900 , Fin XIXe – début XXe siècle Table de chevet, Chevet d'époque Art Nouveau, Table d'appoint / Tab...

Emile Gallé was the man behind this group and became president. Antonin was vice-president. Antonin was also one of the personalities of the Chamber of Commerce of Nancy.

Such emblematic texts align the print with the tradition of moral imagery popular in the seventeenth century, where animals serve as allegorical stand-ins for human virtues and vices...

Although he was an important figure in the Society of American Artists, serving as its vice-president (1878-79) and on its advisory board (1900-1901), Gifford was also devoted to the...

Emile Gallé was the man behind this group and became president. Antonin was vice-president. Antonin was also one of the personalities of the Chamber of Commerce of Nancy.

This work gained notoriety for including a dollar sign hidden in the tracery, which Robb later explained as a traditional Gothic device contrasting vices with virtues. Ecclesiastical...

Emile Gallé was the man behind this group and became president. Antonin was vice-president. Antonin was also one of the personalities of the Chamber of Commerce of Nancy.

Recently sold was a watch given a handful of years after the Civil War concluded by the Vice President Elect to honor an Army commander who went on to receive the Medal of Honor.

He became, in due course a Vice-Admiral, and in the meantime he also became a sculptor.

Lambert is remembered as a founding figure of British botany and as a long-serving Vice President of the Linnean Society of London.

Horatio Nelson Portrait, Trafalgar Engraving, Naval Hero, 1819 London This striking engraved portrait depicts Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), one of Britain’s most celebrat...

The Guichet du Louvre are two sets of openings allowing the passage of vehicles and pedestrians to cross the Louvre Palace from north to south or vice versa, without having to go aro...

Abraham van der Hulst – Vice-Admiral of Holland and West Friesland. Van der Hulst (1619–1666) served with distinction in the Dutch fleet during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, noted for his br...

After 1922 he left the Société Nationale and founded the Salon des Tuileries together with Albert Besnard, who became its chairman, with Aman-Jean and Bourdelle as vice-chairmen. He ...

In addition, John was Member of Parliament for Sunderland, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, President of the Council of Durham Colleges, Recorder for Durham and chair of the Dur...

He designed the main auditorium of the Parisian cinema Le Grand Rex. Vice-president of the Salon d'Automne and officer of the Legion of Honor, in July 1941, under the Vichy regime, h...

These female figures are personifications of virtues (or, more often, vices), allegories that can be interpreted in various senses and personifications of zodiac signs and astral ter...

Hillingford was known for his close attention to accuracy in details of dress and had a collection of original uniforms. He was Vice President of the Kernoozers Club an organisation...

He was elected a member of the RSBA in 1879 and became a member of the RI in 1887, later serving as Vice President from 1901. He was also a member of the ROI.

In 1907 his work was included in the Marcel Bernheim Gallery Group Exhibition with Bonnard, Cezanne, Matisse, Pissarro, Rouault, Seurat, and Toulouse-Lautrec. He was elected vice pre...

In the following year he was honoured by a retrospective exhibition at the Salon d’Automne, of which he had been Vice-President for many years. Examples of his work are in many of th...

Emile Gallé was the man behind this group and became president. Antonin was vice-president. Antonin was also one of the personalities of the Chamber of Commerce of Nancy.

Dutch Naval Leaders – Florisz, Sweers, and Van Nes, c.1750 Copper Engravings This set of three finely engraved 18th-century portraits presents prominent naval commanders of the Dutc...

Oil on wood depicting Amiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, born September 29, 1758 at Burnham Thorpe and died October 21, 1805 off Cape Trafalgar, is a British...

This is a lithograph of John Caldwell Calhoun, who was the 7th Vice-President of the United States, serving under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

The patented system allows the writing surface to be moved from left to right or vice versa, to raise or lower it. A cast iron system allows the surface to be tilted horizontally and...

He ran, with Adlai E. Stevenson as Vice President, against William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Quite a reference when dealing with the vices listed on this sign. 34" W x 36" H

The Christ Child is positioned in the center (note that the halo resembles a cradle, or vice versa), with the Virgin Mary and Saint John at his side, their hands clasped in prayer.

Other customers included Captain Cook, Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, Frederick the Great and Thomas Jefferson.

This table which later on became a work table, has had the most beautiful little Vice which was added to it at some point in the 1830s.

Provenance Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget (1778-1839) Given to Sir Peter Parker (1775-1814) Given to Midshipman Henry Augustus Finucane (1798-1850) Given back by Finucane to the ...

Louis was a member of the Academy of La Rochelle from 1925 and Vice President there from 1955-1983. He was a member of the Salon d’Automne from 1931.

For example, he was commissioned to do a sculpture of Daniel Thompkins, an American vice president, for the garden at St. Mark’s in The Bowery historic church in lower Manhattan, by ...

In the background, a serpent coils around a tree, a subtle allusion to temptation and the duality of pleasure and vice. The Latin title refers to the Horti Ludovisiani, or Gardens o...

The collection included Caravaggio’s Boy bitten by a Lizard now in the National Gallery, London and the first Poussin in a British collection, Hercules Between Vice and Virtue, now a...

In 1854, he delivered a spectacular bronze centerpiece to the Russian Ambassador Kisselef, as well as decorative bronzes for the vice-king of Egypt, Saïd Pacha, in 1862, and the King...

An incredible 19th century Japanese Wabi Sabi burl wood dai with a perfect circular recessed tray, once used to display an object of beauty, but perfect today for catching your keys ...

Staats Forbes Collection Percy M Turner, Christie's London, 16th March 1934 lot 122 Sir Jeremiah Colman The co...