Visions of England just a bit back. Watercolors by Stanley Roy Badmin. Living from 1906 to 1989, he studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art.


Trafalgar Square at Christmas. Undated. English. Pen and black ink and watercolor heightened with bodycolor. Stanley Roy Badmin, watercolorist (1906-1989). Signed S. R. Badmin on the lower right. Private collection. © Estate of the artist. Image © 2025 Christies. Fair use licence. https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-3851659 though I found it here https://www.instagram.com/paintingsoflondon/p/DSb-AVkjCxx/
Four Wents Near Goudhurst, Kent. Undated, by 1989. English. Watercolor. Stanley Roy Badmin, watercolorist (1906-1989). Signed and inscribed with the title at the bottom. © Estate of the artist. Image © Chris Beetles Ltd 2025. Fair use licence https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artwork/43930/four-wents-near-goudhurst-kent
Study for ‘Blackdown.’ Undated, by 1989. English. Watercolor. Stanley Roy Badmin, watercolorist (1906-1989). Signed and inscribed with the title at the lower right. © Estate of the artist. Image © Chris Beetles Ltd 2025. Fair use licence. https://www.chrisbeetles.com/artwork/35090/study-for-blackdown
Skating on a Winter Afternoon. Undated, by 1989. English. Watercolor with touches of gouache. Stanley Roy Badmin, watercolorist (1906-1989). Signed on the lower right. Title inscribed on the back. © Estate of the artist. Image © Toovey’s Auctions. Fair use license. https://www.tooveys.com/lots/320842/stanley-roy-badmin-skating-on-a-winter-afternoon/
Here They Come! Charlton versus Arsenal at the valley! Undated, by 1989. English. Pen, ink and watercolor. Stanley Roy Badmin, watercolorist (1906-1989). Signed and inscribed Charlton v Arsenal at/the Valley/S.R. Badmin on the lower left. Inscribed Here they come! Charlton v Arsenal at the valley on the backboard. © Estate of the artist. Image © lot-art.com. Fair use license. https://www.lot-art.com/auction-lots/Stanley-Roy-Badmin-RWS-British-1906-1989-Here-They-Come-The/55-stanley_roy-13.12.23-bonham
Melford Hall, Long Melford. One of two views of Long Melford by Badmin for the Recording Britain scheme.1940. English. Indian ink, pen and wash drawing on paper. Stanley Roy Badmin, artist (1906-1989). Signed S. R. Badmin and inscribed in ink with the title on the lower left. © estate of the artist. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2025. Fair use license. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O119006/melford-hall-long-melford-drawing-badmin-stanley-roy/

Rural residences possibly fancier than in real life as there are no wood piles, barking dogs or outhouses. From an 1818 work by John B. Papworth who did another one with dressed up conservatories and ice houses. Published by Ackermann’s Repository.

STEWARD’S COTTAGE. Plate 4, Image 27 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n27/mode/1up
A BATH. Frontispiece, Image 6 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n7/mode/1up
A BAILIFF’S COTTAGE. Plate 5, Image 33 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n33/mode/1up
GOTHIC COTTAGE. Plate 6, Image 39 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n39/mode/1up
A COTTAGE ORNE. Plate 12, Image 75 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n75/mode/1up
A COTTAGE ORNE. Plate 14, Image 87 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n87/mode/1up
PARK LODGE AND ENTRANCE. Plate 19, Image 117 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n117/mode/1up
A PARK ENTRANCE. Plate 20, Image 122 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n122/mode/1up
A VERANDAH. Image 157 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n157/mode/1up
A DOMESTIC CHAPEL. Plate 27, Image 161 of Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings: accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening. John B. Papworth, author. Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Strand (London), June 1818. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Papworth03155/page/n161/mode/1up

Imagery from a commemorative publication on the occasion of the May 1873 Vienna World’s Fair that was put out by the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum and the School of Applied Arts. At least some of the items in these engravings were in the museum’s collections.

Ansicht des Säulenhofes. Signed F. W. Bader on the lower right. Page 9 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. F. W. Bader, Vienna, engraver. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/9/mode/1up
Venetianischer Caminständer, 1577, aus der Sammlung des Museums. Drawn by Hermann von Riewel. Page 29 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/29/mode/1up
Juvvelcngehänge. Jan Collaert, artist. ca. 1543. Also in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York with a date of 1581 here https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/426130. Page 37 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/37/mode/1up
Initial ‘C.’ F. W. Bader and Company, Vienna, engraver. Page 58 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/n58/mode/1up
Spitzenmuster von Matteo Florimi, Siena, Italy, 1593. Figure 20, Page 45 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/45/mode/thumb
Kopfleiste, .Motiv aus der Umrahmung des Diploms für die Mitglieder der Gesell-schaft zur Förderung der Kunstgewerbeschule. Initial Z, Venedig 1568. Engraved after a drawing by Joseph Storck. F. W. Bader and Company, Vienna, engraver. Page 68 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/n68/mode/1up
Kreuz mit Email translucide made by Maso Finiguerra in the 15th century and in the collections of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum. Engraving after a drawing by Hermann Kühn. Page 68 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/n78/mode/1up
Schale by A. Hirschvogel (1503-1552). Page 61 Image 85 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/61/mode/1up
Majolika-Schüssel. Italian, 16th century. in the collections of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum. Engraving after a photograph taken by I. Angerer. Image 102 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/n102/mode/1up
Spitzenmuster. Lace pattern by Cesare Vecelho. ca. 1606. Image 80 of Das Kaiserlich Königliche österreichische Museum und die Kunstgewerbeschule : Festschrift bei Gelegenheit der Weltausstellung in Wien, Mai 1873. J. C. Fischer and Company, Vienna, Austria, printers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/daskaiserlichkon00unse/page/80/mode/1up

Bits and pieces of French imperial life that the l’Impératrice Eugénie managed to hold onto in her life in exile in England. From a catalogue for a 1928 exposition titled De Napoléon Ier à Napoléon III. Musée national de Malmaison, publishers. Presumably the exposition was held there, too.

Musée National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLÉON Ier à NAPOLÉON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE. Conservées par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession. Front cover. Published in 1928. P. Guillaumot, Paris, engraver-heraldist. Bellenand and Son, Fontenay-aux-Roses, printers. Published by the Musée national de Malmaison. Collections of the Bibliothèques Patrimoniales Paris. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000045806?posInSet=17&queryId=26dd9225-f3a0-45f5-a20a-95a1026c09a7


32. Le Prince Impérial (son of Eugénie and Napoleon III). Medaillon de profil. Marbre, par J. Peyre (1863), sculpteur de la Manufacture de Sèvres, Diamètre : 0.37. Image 19 from a 1928 catalogue titled Musée National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLÉON Ier à NAPOLÉON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE. Conservées par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession. P. Guillaumot, Paris, engraver-heraldist. Bellenand and Son, Fontenay-aux-Roses, printers. Published by the Musée national de Malmaison. Collections of the Bibliothèques Patrimoniales Paris. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000045806/v0019.simple.highlight=imp%C3%A9ratrice.selectedTab=record
L’Impératrice Eugénie entourée de ses dames d’honneur. Painted by Franz-Xaver Winterhalter in 1855. See it in color here https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/paintings/the-empress-eugenie-surrounded-by-her-ladies-in-waiting/. In the collections of the RMN, Compiègne, Musée National du château. Image 21 from a 1928 catalogue titled Musée National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLÉON Ier à NAPOLÉON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE. Conservées par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession. P. Guillaumot, Paris, engraver-heraldist. Bellenand and Son, Fontenay-aux-Roses, printers. Published by the Musée national de Malmaison. Collections of the Bibliothèques Patrimoniales Paris. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000045806/v0021.simple.highlight=imp%C3%A9ratrice.selectedTab=record
76. Aiguiere et son Bassin. En vermeil. PAR HENRY AUGUSTE, orfevre de la Couronne. Signes Henry – Auguste. Le bassin est timbré, à son bord inférieur, d’une échelon grave aux Armes Royales. Ces objets ont servi à ondoyer le Prince Impérial aux Tuileries, le 16 mars 1856. Ils sont désignés dans le catalogue de la vente de Farnborough comme ayant appartenu à Louis XVI et à Napoléon Ier. (Collection de M. Bacri). Image 43 with the description being on the previous page. From a 1928 catalogue titled Musée National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLÉON Ier à NAPOLÉON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE. Conservées par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession. P. Guillaumot, Paris, engraver-heraldist. Bellenand and Son, Fontenay-aux-Roses, printers. Published by the Musée national de Malmaison. Collections of the Bibliothèques Patrimoniales Paris. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000045806/v0047.simple.highlight=imp%C3%A9ratrice.selectedTab=record
98. Livre d’heures de Napoleon III. Velours grenat, garni de découpures en vermeil; au centre, sur fond d’email bleu, le chiffre de l’Empereur et l’Aigle Impériale. (Collection of Mademoiselle Dechaux). Image 59. From a 1928 catalogue titled Musée National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLÉON Ier à NAPOLÉON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE. Conservées par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession. P. Guillaumot, Paris, engraver-heraldist. Bellenand and Son, Fontenay-aux-Roses, printers. Published by the Musée national de Malmaison. Collections of the Bibliothèques Patrimoniales Paris. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000045806/v0059.simple.highlight=imp%C3%A9ratrice.selectedTab=record
Buvard de Napoléon III, en velours vert, garni d’ornements en ivoire sculpté ; au centre, le chiffre de l’Empereur. Image 63. From a 1928 catalogue titled Musée National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLÉON Ier à NAPOLÉON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPERIALE. Conservées par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession. P. Guillaumot, Paris, engraver-heraldist. Bellenand and Son, Fontenay-aux-Roses, printers. Published by the Musée national de Malmaison. Collections of the Bibliothèques Patrimoniales Paris. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000045806/v0063.simple.highlight=imp%C3%A9ratrice.selectedTab=record

150. Surtout de table, composé d’une corbeille ovale avec medaillons aux Armes Impériales et de 4 candelabres à 6 lumières, en bronze argenté. Image 72. From a 1928 catalogue titled Musée National de Malmaison EXPOSITION 1928 de NAPOLÉON Ier à NAPOLÉON III. SOUVENIRS DE LA FAMILLE IMPÉRIALE. Conservées par l’Impératrice Eugénie dans sa résidence de Farnborough et provenant de sa succession. P. Guillaumot, Paris, engraver-heraldist. Bellenand and Son, Fontenay-aux-Roses, printers. Published by the Musée national de Malmaison. Collections des Bibliothèques Patrimoniales de Paris. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000045806/v0072.simple.highlight=imp%C3%A9ratrice.selectedTab=record

Designs for an adult coloring book or at least you could do that once you buy the biggest box you can find of Crayola crayons. Imagery from “A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . .” Printed for the author, John Stalker, in Oxford England in 1688. Digital collections of the New York Public Library.

The Lidd of a Powder Box – The Lidd of a Patch Box Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8f7dec50-c6bb-012f-ac35-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
Other Patterns for Powder Boxes – Other Patterns for Patch Boxes. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8fcc6930-c6bb-012f-ea35-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
Cloth brushes; combe brushes; a pincushion; trunks for pendants, necklaces, rings, and jewels. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90753cb0-c6bb-012f-ff04-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
The top of a 12 inch frame for a looking glass for Japan work; the bottom of ye said frame. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90d0ade0-c6bb-012f-97f0-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
For ye top or lid of a combe box. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/91cd4860-c6bb-012f-d42b-58d385a7bc34
Design of birds and insects. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/92120120-c6bb-012f-d8b2-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
Design of tree; bird in one tree. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9309db80-c6bb-012f-8196-58d385a7bc34
Design of flowering plant. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/93659e00-c6bb-012f-8c84-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
Design of monkeys, rabbits, stags, bird. Engraved on a copper plate. from John Stalker’s 1688 work A treatise of japaning and varnishing . . . Printed for the author in Oxford, England. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9407e6d0-c6bb-012f-f068-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

They have an Oriental influence but not from the arrival of the first Chinese ambassador to Great Britain who arrived in the mid 1870s during the reign of Queen Victoria. But before that French Queen Marie-Antoinette owned a valuable collection of Japanese lacquerware including a small hen shaped tiered box from the Edo period. And before that Chinese goods reached European markets from the Silk Road (which the current New Silk Road Initiative is named for).

These images are designs for Japanning work which was developed in Europe to imitate Asian lacquerware of the kind Marie Antoinette collected.

Oh to be an Edwardian baby and find Walter Crane’s “The Baby’s Opera” under your Christmas tree. Published in 1900. In the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Front cover of A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
Loving the little mice. Image 3. A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render

Table of Contents. Image 6. A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
Girls and Boys. Image 6 (right side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
Saint Paul’s Steeple. Page 13, Image 8 (upper right side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
My Lady’s Garden. Page 14, Image 9 (upper right side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
I Saw Three Ships. Page 18, Image 11 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
Ye Frog and Ye Crow. Page 26, Image 15 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
Jack and Jill. Page 25, Image 28 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
Dance a Baby. Image 29 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render

Pochoir prints from the 1924 portfolio “Nouvelles Variations. Soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches.” It is a collection of decorative motifs by the artist Edouard Benedictus and was published in Paris by Albert Lévy.

Front cover. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f1.planchecontact
Title page. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f12.item#
Lower image, View 14, Page 1. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f14.item
View 18, Page 3. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f18.item#
View 22, Page 5. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f22.item#
View 30, Page 9. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f30.item
View 32, Page 10. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f32.item
View 34, Page 11 (lower left detail) Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f34.item#
View 38, Page 13. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f38.item
View 38, Page 17. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f46.item#
View 52, Page 20. Benedictus: Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs décoratifs en vingt planches. Editions Albert Lévy – Paris – Librairie Central des Beaux-Arts. Published in 1924. Edouard Benedictus, artist. Albert Lévy, publisher. Pochoir prints. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15077177/f52.item#

This portfolio can be found in numerous other collections, including the Rhode Island School of Design, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Skidmore College just to name a few. The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) site has a link that lets you download a PDF of the entire portfolio.

https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_pochoir/8

Visions that appear in dreamtime even if they were real. Pen and ink drawings of pavilions at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition which was held in Charleston, South Carolina from December 1, 1901 to May 31, 1902.

Palace of Agriculture. Page 4 of a PDF version of The Exposition, a magazine devoted to the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1, 1901 to May 31, 1902. April 1, 1901 issue, Volume 1, Number 5. Collections of the College of Charleston. Copyrighted in 1901 but in the public domain due to age by now. via the Low Country Digital Library. https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:23618
Electrical Island. Page 6 of a PDF version of The Exposition, a magazine devoted to the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1, 1901 to May 31, 1902. April 1, 1901 issue, Volume 1, Number 5. Collections of the College of Charleston. Copyrighted in 1901 but in the public domain due to age by now. via the Low Country Digital Library. https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:23618
Column with a fountain at the base and a female figure at the top holding an electrified wand, this being when cities and towns were still being electrified so when electricity was exciting. Page 6 of a PDF version of The Exposition, a magazine devoted to the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1, 1901 to May 31, 1902. March 1901 issue, Volume 1, Number 4. Collections of the College of Charleston. Copyrighted in 1901 but in the public domain due to age by now. via the Low Country Digital Library. https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:23617
The Cotton Palace. Page 4 of a PDF version of The Exposition, a magazine devoted to the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1, 1901 to May 31, 1902. March 1901 issue, Volume 1, Number 4. Collections of the College of Charleston. Copyrighted in 1901 but in the public domain due to age by now. via the Low Country Digital Library. https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:23617
The Transportation Building. Page 18 of a PDF version of The Exposition, a magazine devoted to the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1, 1901 to May 31, 1902. May 1901 issue, Volume 1, Number 4. Collections of the College of Charleston. Copyrighted in 1901 but in the public domain due to age by now. via the Low Country Digital Library. file:///C:/Users/owner/OneDrive/Desktop/223093_58c3b1c2036e5f4.pdf
South Elevation, South Carolina Inter – State and West Indian Exposition, Charleston South Carolina: Prepared at office of Architect in Chief, 80 Broadway, New York City. Page 19 of a PDF version of The Exposition, a magazine devoted to the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, December 1, 1901 to May 31, 1902. February 1901 issue, Volume 1, Number 3. Collections of the College of Charleston. Copyrighted in 1901 but in the public domain due to age by now. via the Low Country Digital Library. file:///C:/Users/owner/OneDrive/Desktop/223093_58c3b1c2036e5f4.pdf

Spending my afternoon time traveling my way back to 1900 with a special ticket to the l’Exposition universelle. Imagery from French architect Antonin Raguenet’s “Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris.”

Specimen d’une planche TRES RÉDUIRE. Le format exact est de 45 X 34. Croquis Architecturaux. Page 4 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n4/mode/1up
Facade des campaniles et coupoles. Palais par Messrs Larche and Nachon, Architectes. Palais C. Page 4 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Viellemard Fils & Cie, Paris, lithographers. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n5/mode/1up
Guirlandes sous l’entablement et entre les grandes baies des façades. Mr. C. Julien, sculpteur. Palais par Messrs Larche and Nachon, Architectes. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Viellemard Fils & Cie, Paris, lithographers. Palais C. Page 10 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. . Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n10/mode/1up
Chapiteaux et bases des flèches pyramidales. Mr. Jacquier de Caen, sculpteure. Palais par M. Tropey-Bailly Architecte. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Viellemard Fils & Cie, Paris, lithographers. Palais A. Page 17 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. . Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n17/mode/1up
Couronnements et balcons des facades en saillie sur l’Avenue des Invalides. Messrs Jacquier Freres, sculpteurs (detail). Palais par M. Tropey-Bailly Architecte. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Viellemard Fils & Cie, Paris, lithographers. Palais A. Page 23 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. . Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n23/mode/1up
Entablement et attique décorer des armes des principales villes de France; Fragment des façades en quart de cercle.Palais par Messrs. Toudoire & G. Fradelle, architectes. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Viellemard Fils & Cie, Paris, lithographers. Palais D. Page 28 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n28/mode/1up
Deux des trois frontons couronnant la partie centrale de palais, a droite et a gauche de la grande place servant d’entree a l’Avenue de l’Esplanade. Sculpteurs Messrs. Mallet et Pinard. Palais par Messrs. Toudoire & G. Fradelle, architectes. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Viellemard Fils & Cie, Paris, lithographers. Palais D. Page 53 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n53/mode/1up
Vue d’ensemble d’une des deux façades a l’interieur d l’ancienne galerie des machines. Les nombreux pavillions d’exposition places devant le palais ne nous ont pas permis de donner ces façades en perspective. Il manque a cet ensemble deux petites portes, a droite et a gauche, que nous n’aurions pu faire figurer ici sans réduite encore l’echelle du dessin. Mr. Gustave Raulin, architecte. Champe-de-Mars, Palais pour La Salle des Fetes. Published in Paris in 1900 by C. Schmid. Viellemard Fils & Cie, Paris, lithographers. Palais D. Page 104 of A. Raguenet’s Les principaux palais de l’Exposition universelle de Paris. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/lesprincipauxpal00ragu/page/n104/mode/1up

Oh! To live the life of a Valois princeling and his bride. Watercolors by architectural watercolorist Tavernier de Jonquières (Brice Tavernier) who lived from 1742 to some time after 1830.

Vue de la porte de Vaux qui conduit à Notre-Dame-de-Liesse. French. Drawing in pen and brown ink with watercolor. Tavernier de Jonquières, watercolorist (1742- after 1830). Collections of the @gallica.bnf.fr, the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22Tavernier%20De%20Jonqui%C3%A8res%22%29&lang=en&suggest=0
Valois. Tour de Vez. French. Drawing in pen and brown ink with watercolor.  Tavernier de Jonquières, watercolorist (1742- after 1830). Collections of the @gallica.bnf.fr, the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7741063h.r=Valois?rk=21459;2
Ruines du Château de Pierrefonds. Oise, France. French. Drawing in pen and brown ink with watercolor.  Tavernier de Jonquières, watercolorist (1742- after 1830). Collections of the @gallica.bnf.fr, the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b77410497.r=Tavernier%20de%20Jonqui%C3%A8res?rk=85837;2
Vue du cloître de la Chartreuse de Bourgfontaine. French. Drawing in pen and brown ink with watercolor.  Tavernier de Jonquières, watercolorist (1742- after 1830). Collections of the @gallica.bnf.fr, the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&startRecord=0&maximumRecords=30&page=1&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22Tavernier%20de%20Jonqui%C3%A8res%22%29
Vue du palais des Rois de Soissons à Saint Médard. French. Drawing in pen and brown ink with watercolor.  Tavernier de Jonquières, watercolorist (1742- after 1830). Collections of the @gallica.bnf.fr, the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7741260z.r=Tavernier%20de%20Jonqui%C3%A8res?rk=643780;0
Vue de l’entrée souterraine du Château de Pierrefonds, Oise. French. Drawing in pen and brown ink with watercolor.  Tavernier de Jonquières, watercolorist (1742- after 1830). Collections of the @gallica.bnf.fr, the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&startRecord=30&maximumRecords=30&page=2&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22Tavernier%20de%20Jonqui%C3%A8res%22%29