Women out and about just a little while ago. Genre scenes, painted by George Dunlop Leslie RA who lived from 1835 to 1921. His father and his uncle were artists, too.

*The Goldfish Seller.* Undated. British. Oil on canvas mounted to panel. Signed *G. D. Leslie* on the lower right. Image © 2021 Sothebys. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/the-european-art-sale/the-goldfish-seller

*The Convent Garden*/*In A Convent Garden* . ca. 1857-1859. British. Oil on canvas. Image source; The Athenaeum. Located at Sudley House, Collections of the National Museums Liverpool. artuk.org. Artwork in the public domain because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Dunlop_Leslie_-_The_Convent_Garden.jpg

*Girl in a Punt*. 1859. British. Watercolor and pastel on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper. Collections of and image source the Yale Center for British Art. CC0 License 1.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Dunlop_Leslie_-*Girl_in_a_Punt*–*B1993.30.104*-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg

*Fortunes.* Undated. British. Oil on canvas. Image source: Christies. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 70 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Dunlop_Leslie_-_Fortunes.jpg

Lying around pretending to be one of the ancients when you are a Pre-Raphaelite person. Art by Sir William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens. Living from 1862 to 1943, he was born in America but painted in Great Britain. Studied at the Royal Academy School.

*Roman Courtship.* ca. 1900. American/British. Collections of the **John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art**, Sarasota, Florida. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://jazzerstenhdr.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/roman-courtship-at-the-john-and-mable-ringling-museum-of-art/

*In the arms of Morpheus.* Undated. American/British. Signed on the lower right. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/morpheus.html

*Summer.*1891. External Link:
http://www.italialiberty.it. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/summer-william-reynolds-stephens/3AHzTLJ0BahnYw

Paintings of children by English artist Richard Morton Paye. Living from 1750 to 1820, he was an important painter of the early English School and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

*Children playing Peg Top.* January 1, 1780. English. Image source: Artdealer2021. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Children_Playing_Peg_Top%27_by_Richard_Morton_Paye.png

*The Badminton Player.* Undated. English. Oil on canvas. Image © COPYRIGHT 2021 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/8021/drewea1-10269/lot-details/043a37fe-39bd-46e6-a5c3-addd012e53fd

*Children Throwing Snow Balls.,* 1785. Print, part of the ‘British School II’ album, which originally contained 170 prints published between around 1713 and 1810. Engraving after a painting by Richard Morton Paye. Image ©Royal Academy of Arts. Fair use license. via https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/children-throwing-snow-balls

Images taken from”An account of an embassy to the kingdom of Ava sent by the Governor-General of India, in the year 1795.” Written by Michael Symes, it was published in London in 1800.

*Shoemadoo, the great temple at Pegue*. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833). Page 222. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=222

*A Rhahan or Priest.* Page 249. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age, via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=249

*Impression of the Foot of Guadma* *(Guarma)*. Page 289. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=289

*Image of Boodh at Gaya in Bengal*. Page 341. Drawn by Captain Grookat (?). T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=341

*A Wungyi (*Wongee*) or Member of the Chief Council and his Wife in their dress of ceremony.* Page 353. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=353

*An Attawaoon or Minister of the Interior and his Wife (left); A Seredogee or Secretary of State (right) in their dress of ceremony.* Page 357. Page 353. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=357

*A Woondock and his Wife in their dress of ceremony.* Page 361. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=361

*A Birman Peasant and his Wife*. Page 367. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=367

*A Cafsay (?) Horseman.* Page 371. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=371

*A Method of Catching Wild Elephants in Ava.* Page 403. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=403

*Image of the Birman Gaudma (Gaurm) in a Temple at* *Ummerapoora*. Page 407. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=407

*A Kioum or Monastery*. Page 449. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=449.

*View of the Imperial Court at Ummerapoora and the Ceremony of Introduction.* Page 477. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=477

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*Shoepaundogee or Royal Golden Barge*. Page 489. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=489

*A Birman War Boat.* Page 495. Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=495

*A Man and Woman of the Tribe of Mountaineers called Kayn*. Page 515 Drawn by Singey Bey. T. (Thomas) Medland, engraver (ca.1765-1833).. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=515

*Sonneratia Apetala*. Page 557. Wellcome Collections. In the public domain due to age. via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m3jvvu5e/items?canvas=557

The Ava Kingdom was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma from 1364 to 1555. Ava, or Inwa located in Mandalay Region, Myanmar, is an ancient imperial capital of successive Burmese kingdoms from the 14th to 19th centuries. This wonderful volume is also in the collections of the British Library, Cornell University and the New York Public Library. Probably some other places, too. I found it in a Swann Auction Galleries catalog.

Visions of an Arctic that looks a little different now taken from Bernard O’Reilly’s work “Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s strait, during the summer of 1817” with the illustrations made from drawings by the author. Published in 1818 in London. In the collections of the State Library of Alaska and the Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

*Views of Greenland after passing Cape Farewell: Views of Land near Joris Bay (upper image); Land near Baal’s River (center image); Reep Kolle? (not legible, lower image)*. Page 42. Plate I. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/asl_G650_1817_06.pdf

*Disko at Fortune Bay with Cirrus Radiation.* Plate 3, Page 63. Collections of and digitalized by the Library of the Marine Biological Library and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n63/mode/1up

*Disko near Lievely with Parhelion.* Plate IV, Page 67. Collections of and digitalized by the Library of the Marine Biological Library and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the public domain due to age https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n67/mode/1up

A world that isn’t coming back. At least not looking like this. Illustrations from “A voyage around the world: but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 with the ships “King George” and the “Queen Charlotte” which were captained by Captains Portlock and Dixon.

*People of Sandwich Sound in their canoes.* What is now known as Prince William Sound was first named “Sandwich Sound” by James Cook after his patron the Earl of Sandwich in 1778. It was later renamed for one of George III and Queen Charlotte’s sons. Bound facing page 68, 1778. British. Drawing drawn by John Webber (1752-1793). Archival ID#1409341 and PIC Volume 42 #NK7402. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1409341

*A marae in Tahiti (Sandwich Island).* Tahiti having named “Sandwich island” by James Cook after his patron with the name changed to Tahiti after this was published. Bound facing page 128. 1777. British. Pencil and wash drawing drawn by John Webber (1752-1793). Archival ID#1411153. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1411153

*A view of Hippa Island, Queen Charlotte Isles.* Off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Bound at page 204. 1777. British. Watercolor. Archival ID#2933876. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2933876

*A view in the bay at Woahoo, Sandwich Islands.* Plate facing page 55. Published on January 17, 1789. Archival ID#313403. Engraving.Inigo Barlow, printer. Archival ID#313403. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/313403

*A view of the volcano, Cook’s River, taken from the Coal Harbour*. Now known as Port Graham which is on the Kenai Peninsula, in present-day Alaska. Plate facing page 62. British. Published on January 7, 1789. Engraving. Inigo Barlow, printer. Archival ID#1240353. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1240353

*A view of Mount Edgecomb taken from the ship at anchor in Norfolk Sound.* Near the present day Sitka, Alaska. Plate facing page 192. Published on January 7, 1789. British. Engraving. Inigo Barlow, printer. Archival ID#2764054. Digital collections of the National Library of Australia. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2764054

An account of the fur-trading expedition fitted out by the King George’s Sound Company, with important results for the exploration and mapping of the American Northwest. These are the plates showing locations. There are also plates showing some of the individuals they encountered, tools and birds. The two ships were commanded by Dixon and the American-born Nathaniel Portlock, both veterans of James Cook’s last voyage. It includes accounts of the Hawaiian islands where they wintered in 1787-1788. The text was edited by Dixon from a series of letters by the Quaker, William Beresford.