Sand Picture of a Recumbent Tiger Attributed to Benjamin Zobel

A Fine Farmyard Scene Sand Picture by Benjamin Zobel, Inspired by the Work of George Morland The scene set in a farmyard and featuring a charming donkey, bull and a pair of pigs lyi...

A Pair of Sand Pictures by Benjamin Zobel, framed by Benjamin Taylor, each showing a farming scene, one with four sheep under a large oak tree by a field gate...

These extraordinary ‘paintings’ were created using coloured grains of sand rather than paints. Each is after an original painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. The first scene shows the Battle of Hastings with a central mounted figure, presumably William the Conqueror, with a red plume in his helmet, raising his sword against a fighter on foot. A printed version of this image, shown above, was made by William Bromley. (See the British Museum registration number 1858,1009.115 for a fine impression.) The second scene, composed with a similar central mounted knight with a raised axe (sword in the original) represents Richard the Lionheart in combat against Saladin at the Battle of Acre. In this case the print was made by Anker Smith...

A minutely embroidered Chinese silk picture of a sea eagle, the bird in flight over foaming waves in shades of blue and turquoise with white wave tips on a p...