Seashells. Woodblock illustrations of shell and coral specimens from Yochiro Hirase’s work “Kai Senshu” (The Illustrations of a Thousand Shells). Published in Kyoto, Japan by Yamada Naozōburō in 1914-1915. In Japanese.

Page 10. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/10/mode/1up

Page 12. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/12/mode/1up

Page 14. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/14/mode/1up

Page 22. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81292#page/18/mode/1up

Out and about in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany back in 1828, more or less. Taken from Hjalmar Mörner’s folio “Collezione dei costumi di diverse provincie del Gran Ducato di Toscana”. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers after drawings by Francesco Pieraccini.

Gioco dei burattini al Moto. Image 3. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n2/mode/1up

Venditrice di spighe di granone arrostite, Image 11. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n10/mode/1up

Pescivendolo. Image 12. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n12/mode/1up

il ciabattino. Image 14. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n14/mode/1up

Rissa de donne. Image 20. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n20/mode/1up

Cambia – monete. Image 22. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n22/mode/1up

Il tamburello. Image 26. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n26/mode/1up

Barbiere. Image 28. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n28/mode/1up

La Tarantella. Page 30. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Taken from Hjalmar Mörner’s folio Collezione dei costumi di diverse provincie del Gran Ducato di Toscana“. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n30/mode/1up

Acquajuolo. Page 36. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Taken from Hjalmar Mörner’s folio Collezione dei costumi di diverse provincie del Gran Ducato di Toscana“. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n36/mode/1up

Passaggio della Lava. Page 42. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Taken from Hjalmar Mörner’s folio Collezione dei costumi di diverse provincie del Gran Ducato di Toscana“. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n42/mode/1up

Un Caffe de Napoli. Page 44. ca. 1828. Cuciniello e Bianchi, lithographers, after a drawing by Francesco Pieraccini. Taken from Hjalmar Mörner’s folio Collezione dei costumi di diverse provincie del Gran Ducato di Toscana“. Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF), Florence. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 4.0. https://archive.org/details/cappugi-385-images/page/n44/mode/1up

Watercolors of interiors in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, done by the German artist Ferdinand Rothbart. There was a fashion for having watercolorists do portraits of your drawing room, back then. The Russian tsar had a lot of them, too.

Gotha Winterpalais Balkonzimmer 1848. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German). In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balkonzimmer.jpg

A so called “Zimmerbild” (chamber painting) of a bedroom in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Germany). ca. 1848. German. Scanned from “Biedermeier. Die Erfindung der Einfachheit”, a catalogue of an exhibition.. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zimmerbild_99.jpg

Gotha Winterpalais Frühstückszimmer (Breakfast room in the Winter Palace, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 1848. German. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChst%C3%BCckszimmer.jpg

“Coburg: interior of the Landestheater,” the Queen and her party are seen about to enter the royal box in the recently opened theatre, to attend a performance of Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots”. Sace-Coburg and Gotha. ca. 1845. German. © Royal Collection Trust. Fair use license. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/920477/coburg-interior-of-the-theatre

Rothbart did many commissions for Queen Victoria. These could be part of that as she commissioned a set of Prince Albert’s childhood home, or they could have been commissioned by her brother in law. The theatre watercolor was for Queen Victoria. The others don’t say.

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