Learning to draw and write the pretty way. Imagery from the 1750 alphabet book “Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . .” Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller at Kingston upon Thames. The ant: Diligence, frugality. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 16 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=17&view=1up The crocodile: Dissimulation and infidelity, J. Hulott, sculp. Image 24 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=24&view=1up The dog: vigilance and fidelity: J. Hulott, sculp. Image 28 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=28&view=1up The eagle: honour and ambition. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 32 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=32&view=1up The fox: hypocrisy and prophaness. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 36 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=36&view=1up The grass hopper: indolence and inactivity. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 40 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=40&view=1up Will be back to pick up more of the letters later.
Silver locomotives. A new centerpiece or to dress up the mantlepiece. Also a presentation railroad carriage in sterling silver running on its own track made in 1860 that I just found over on 1st Dibs. Parcel-gilt silver filigree locomotive form spice box with rose-gilt caps, the front with later Hebrew inscription with a dedication to a synagogue, presumably the one it was given to in Bucharest. 1850-1900. Not sure where it was made but it was given to a synagogue in Bucharest, Romania. From the style and ornamentation it looks like it was made in Eastern Europe, not Britain. Judaica. Image @ 2024 Sothebys. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/the-halpern-judaica-collection-tradition-and-treasure-part-i/a-parcel-gilt-silver-filigree-locomotive-form Silver gilt novelty steam engine pulling an open car. Victorian. English. marked London 1889. Alfred Benson and Henry Hugh Webb, makers. Image © 2016 Seidenberg Antiques. Fair use license. https://www.seidenbergantiques.com/shop/objects-d-art/english/rare-victorian-silver-gilt-novelty-locomotive.html Sterling silver locomotive Christmas tree ornament. ca. 1970s. American. Gorham, maker. © 1stDibs.com, Inc. 2024 Fair use license. https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/sterling-silver/sterling-silver-christmas-tree-locomotive-ornament-gorham/id-f_820765/?crlt.pid=camp.uMYGBFXO5fHb&epik=dj0yJnU9Nks0aVlHVy02T0xjQXFYcEpmTUwyWV9Hb1FNX2hiTEsmcD0wJm49Y0lhZG1ISGY3UWgzSkI1SWxHanFEZyZ0PUFBQUFBR1hvOWZ3 Sterling silver presentation railway carriage/centerpiece sitting on a bespoke oak wood presentation plinth, ornamented with a wooden railway track, realistically modelled with rails, fasteners, and railroad ties. The body of the carriage having a rectangular form with an elevated hallmarked gallery border, realistically modeled in the form of the carriage’s struts and graces. Either side of this gallery features an exceptional contemporary engraved coat of arms, one pertains to the Borough of Morpeth / County Northumberland and features the Latin motto Inter sylvas et flumina habitans – Living among woods and streams. The other coat of arms pertains to the Trevelyan family; it incorporates the crest of two arms in armor embowed, the hands supporting a bezant, thereon a parrot statant, all above the Old English motto Tyme tryeth troth – Time tests faith. The ends feature cast sterling silver buffer stops flanking the contemporary engraved initials ‘RW‘ to one end, and ‘JT‘ to the other. The surface of the body bears the contemporary engraved inscription Presented to Pauline Lady Trevelyan on the Occasion of opening the first section of the Wansbeck Railway, April 21 1862. The railway carriage is supported by a hallmarked sterling silver chassis framework, complete with the wheelset including functional wheels and ornamental axle boxes bearing the numeral ‘7’. 1860-1862. Made in London England by Edward and John Barnard. Maker’s marks: hallmarks to the chassis. Image © 1stDibs.com, Inc. 2024. Fair use license. https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/desk-accessories/more-desk-accessories/antique-victorian-sterling-silver-presentation-railway-carriage-centerpiece/id-f_26282692/
More from Percy MacQuoid’s work “History of English Furniture: Age of Satinwood.” Published in Edinburgh by T. and A. Constable, printers to His Majesty (Edward VII). Collections of the Society of the Four Arts. Amboyna-wood writing cabinet (left); inlaid mahogany pole-screen (right). Both pieces being the property of Alfred Littleton, Esquire. Plate VIII, page 170. Signed Shirley Slocombe artist, 1908. Collections of the Society of the Four Arts. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfEnglishFurnitureAgeOfSatinwood/page/n170/mode/1up Figure 124 – Painted wood pedestal; Figure 125 – Carved wood lantern. Both pieces being the property of the Earl of Harewood. Page 173. Collections of the Society of the Four Arts. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfEnglishFurnitureAgeOfSatinwood/page/n173/mode/1up Figure 131 – Robert Adam’s design for bed. Page 180. Collections of the Society of the Four Arts. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfEnglishFurnitureAgeOfSatinwood/page/n180/mode/1up Satin-wood commode. Property of Alfred Littleton, Esquire. Plate X, page 224. Signed Shirley Slocombe artist, 1908. Collections of the Society of the Four Arts. Scanned by the Internet Archive. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfEnglishFurnitureAgeOfSatinwood/page/n224/mode/1up
Up into the Arctic and down to the Antarctic with English watercolorist Charles Hamilton Smith who was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery. Living from 1776 to 1859, he painted what he saw as he traveled around the world during his military career. “Spitzbergen, Bearing South,” from the collection of 75 watercolors entitled “Views of Polar Regions”. 19th c. English. Watercolor and graphite. Collections of the Yale Center for British Arts, New Haven. Image © Yale Center for British Arts. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://wanderingvertexes.blogspot.com/2021/08/newtontoppen-spitzbergen-by-charles.html “Remarkable Iceberg seen in July, 1818.” ca. 1818. English. Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper. Collections of the Collections of the Yale Center for British Arts, New Haven. Image © Yale Center for British Arts, Paul Mellon Collection. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/remarkable-iceberg-charles-hamilton-smith-1776%E2%80%931859-belgian/kwFvKsdBrhN6Xw “Victoria lands, South Polar Regions: Mont Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica,” from the collection of 75 watercolors entitled “Views of Polar Regions”. 19th c. English. Watercolor and graphite. Collections of the Yale Center for British Arts, New Haven. Image © Yale Center for British Arts. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://wanderingvertexes.blogspot.com/2019/10/erebus-seen-by-charles-hamilton-smith.html “Mount Sabine, Victoria Land, Antarctica, discovered in 1841,” from the collection of 75 watercolors entitled “Views of Polar Regions”. ca. 1841. English. Watercolor. Collections of the Yale Center for British Arts, New Haven. Image © Yale Center for British Arts. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://wanderingvertexes.blogspot.com/2019/11/mount-sabine-by-charles-hamilton-smith.html Petoowack Arctic Highlands Formation Antarctica. Undated, by 1858. British. Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper. Charles Hamilton Smith, watercolorist (1776-1859). Collections of the Yale Center for British Art. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via Francis Rousseau @mountainpaintingsandmore on Instagram. via Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdQ2xGM_zy/
Aquatints (watercolors) of bed treatments but not any old bed treatments. No, these are by watercolorist J. Barlow after designs by Thomas Sheraton. Done between 1803 and 1807. British. Taken from a current Dreweatts’s auction catalogue. Bedcoverings in blue with black netted fringe trim. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in red and gold. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in pale blue and pink. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in red and green. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in blue and pinkish red. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in blue and dark green with netted fringe trim. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in blue and red with a blue canopy. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in blue, dark green and pink with gilded birds, probably eagles. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b Bedcoverings in various colors shown with a bed in gilded wood and matching set of bed stairs. 1803-1807. British. Aquatint. J. Barlow after Thomas Sheraton. Image © COPYRIGHT 2020 DREWEATTS 1759 LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Fair use license. via https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/7875/drewea1-10237/lot-details/396eb6e1-020e-4abb-b597-ad4f00711f3b
Designs to fancy up everything. Why live boring if you can use these? Taken from Samuel Leith’s work “The Tradesman’s Book of ornamental Designs” which was published in London in 1847. Title page. Page 3. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n3/mode/1up?view=theater “Iron Work.” Page 7. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n7/mode/1up?view=theater “Flemish.” Page 11. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater ‘Italian: from a rare etching by Guido Reni after Lucas Cambiaso.” Page 13. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater Gothic scroll. Page 22. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/n22/mode/1up?view=theater Elizabethan panels. Page 6. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/6/mode/1up?view=theater Window heads – Elizabethan. Page 36. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/36/mode/1up?view=theater Fire screen – Grotesque. Page 16. Collections of the Clark Art Institute Library. Digitalizing federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/tradesmansbookof00leit/page/16/mode/1up?view=theater
Paintings of horses and hunting dogs. James Seymour, English artist. Living from 1702 to 1752, he is widely recognized for his equestrian art. Son of an amateur artist and art dealer. “Lord Portmore’s ‘Snap’, a saddled chestnut hunter held by a groom, with a setter in a landscape.” 1743. English. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated “J. Seymour/1743/Snap” on the lower left. Image © Christie’s 2021. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-james-seymour-1702-1752-lord-portmores-snap-a-6328976/?from=salesummary&intObjectID=6328976&lid=1&ldp_breadcrumb=back “Huntsmen and their Hounds.” 1750. English. Oil on canvas. Signed with the initials “J.S.” and dated 1750 on the bottom left. Image source: Bonhams. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huntsmen_and_their_hounds_by_James_Seymour_1750.png “Sir Roger Burgoyne Riding ‘Badger’. 1740. English. Oil on canvas. Inscribed, in the artist’s hand in brown paint on the lower left “Sir Roger Burgoyne.” Dated 1740 in brown paint on the lower left, perhaps in a later hand. Collections of the Yale Institute for British Art, New Haven. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Seymour_-Sir_Roger_Burgoyne_Riding%27Badger%27_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Live like the Prince Regent at least until supper time. Plates from W. H. Pyne’s work “The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, Saint James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore” which was published between 1816 and 1819. These being from Volume I of three. “Ancient Kitchen, Windsor Castle.” Image 29. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qp2n24k&view=1up&seq=31 “Ancient Bell Tower, Windsor Castle.” Image 52. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qp2n24k&view=1up&seq=52 “Staircase, Windsor Castle.” Image 108. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qp2n24k&view=1up&seq=108 Hampton Court Palace. Image 6 from The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, Saint James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. 1819. W. H. Pyne, author. Published in London, England. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012272262/page/n5/mode/1up The Chapel, Hampton Court. Image 16 from The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, Saint James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. 1819. W. H. Pyne, author. Published in London, England. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012272262/page/n15/mode/1up Banqueting Hall, Hampton Court. Image 34 from The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, Saint James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. 1819. W. H. Pyne, author. Published in London, England. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012272262/page/n33/mode/1up Grand Stair Case, Hampton Court. Image 50 from The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, Saint James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. 1819. W. H. Pyne, author. Published in London, England. Collections of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012272262/page/n50/mode/1up
Novelty Edwardian pincushions in sterling silver. Two animals and a canoe for them to paddle away in. Also a few more new friends that were made by other silver firms. Made by Levi and Salaman in Birmingham, England. Pig. 1904. Image © Harrington & Company Vintage Luxury & Collectables, Woolloongabba. Fair use license. via http://www.hnco.com.au/rare-1904-levi-salaman-english-sterling-silver-pig-cushion/ Elephant with raised trunk, engraved “Bramble Hill” on one side. 1905. Image ©2019 LoveAntiques.com. Fair use license. via https://www.loveantiques.com/antique-silver/edwardian-(1901-1914)/edwardian-silver-pin-cushion-elephant-raised-trunk-levi-and-salaman-1905-59211 Hedgehog pin cushion. 1906. Image ©2019 LoveAntiques.com. Fair use license. via https://www.loveantiques.com/antique-silver/silver-pin-cushions/adorable-antique-silver-hedgehog-pin-cushion-levi-and-salaman-birmingham-1906-163248 Canoe pincushion. 1905. Image © I.Franks 2019. Fair use license. via https://www.ifranks.com/item/j0823-silver-pincushions Standing camel novelty silver pincushion. 1905. Edwardian. Made in Birmingham, England by Sydney and Company. Image © Toovey’s Antique and Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/528577/an-edwardian-silver-novelty-pincushion-in-the-form-of-a-standing-camel Silver novelty pincushion in the form of an ornamental pheasant standing on an oval base. 1905. Edwardian. British, made in Chester by Sampson Mordan and Company, Ltd. Image © Toovey’s Antique and Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/528578/an-edwardian-silver-novelty-pincushion-in-the-form-of-an
Waterly worlds to sit on the table with fish that never need feeding. “Aquarium” oversized table lighters, carved, painted and assembled by Ben Shillingford for Dunhill. 1949-late 1950’s. Table lighter. 1950’s. Lucite panels decorated with fish with chrome plated metal mounts. Cast retailer’s mark. Engraved with the registration number 737418. Image © 1stdibs, Inc. 2019. Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/sculptures/figurative-sculptures/1950s-dunhill-aquarium-oversized-table-lighter-made-england-chrome-lots-fish/id-f_12203863/ Deep blue water aquarium table lighter. Vintage. Carved and painted lucite panels with gold plated metal mounts. Image © 2019 The Rake. Fair use license. via https://therake.com/rare-by-oulton-vintage-gold-plated-dunhill-deep-blue-water-aquarium-lighter.html Aquarium table lighter with green water and silver colored fish. 1950’s. British. Carved and painted lucite with metal mounts. Image © 2019. Antique & Vintage Furniture Wimbledon. Fair use license. via https://www.wimbledon-furniture.co.uk/products/super-rare-1950s-original-dunhill-aquarium-table-lighter-hand-made-in-england/ Electroplated and Lucite “Aquarium” table lighter. Curved rectangular form, electroplated mounts and four Lucite panels, the lighter mechanism stamped “Dunhill”, the sides deeply engraved and painted to resemble a three dimensional tropical aquarium, one side featuring two exotic silver fish, the other an orange and silver striped fish, all swimming amongst water plants and rocks against a blue and green ground, with similar end panels. ca. 1950. Maker’s marks: the base stamped “Dunhill Lighter’ and ‘Made in England.” Image © Bonhams 2001-2023. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auction/28269/lot/12/dunhill-an-electroplated-and-lucite-aquarium-table-lighter-circa-1950-base-incuse-stamped-dunhill-lighter-and-made-in-england/