Items matching furniture

Meeting-Hall of the Brewers’ Guild

Waterhuis. — Vergaderzaal der Brouwersgilde. La Maison Hydraulique. — Sall de réunion de la Corporation des Brasseurs. Das Wasserhaus. — Versammlungssaal der Brauersgilde. The Waterhouse. — Meeting-Ha [...]

Keywords: interiors, tables, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2007-05-02

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Reading Desks. MS. Bodleian Library. (detail)

The right-hand of two wooden reading desks that were depicted in a 15th century manuscript. This one has a an open book, and the stand (or lecturn) is carved with decorations. (The left-hand reading [...]

Keywords: lecterns, books, furniture

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-06

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Queen Anne Clock

An sketch or line-drawing of an ornate clock from the early eighteenth century (C18, 18th C., the Queen Anne period). This is a detail from Specimens of Furniture, Time of Anne.

Keywords: furniture, clocks, clipart

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

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Queen Anne Chair

A sketch or line-drawing of an upholstered airmchair from the early eighteenth century (C18, 18th C., the Queen Anne period). This is a detail from Specimens of Furniture, Time of Anne.

Keywords: furniture, chairs, clipart

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

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Specimens of Furniture, Time of Anne.

A wood-engraved line drawing of various items of Queen Anne furniture arranged in a group. there are three chairs, a stool, a clock on a table, an armoire or wardrobe, a cupboard and I think a mirror [...]

Keywords: furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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Tall Bookcase

A bespectacled gentleman sits reading a large book in front of the end of a tall bookcase. This was originally used as an initial I in ‘IN’.

Keywords: people, furniture, books, letteri, initials

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-01-21

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335.—The Great Chamber, Looking North.

“It will be noticed that the ceiling is a reproduction of that in the ballroom at Knole (Fig. 294). The panelling is similar to that in the dining-room below, and all came out of the Quenby attics. It [...]

Keywords: interiors, ceilings, manors, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Hungarton; Leicestershire; England

Added: 2006-01-12

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Drink Me

“There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telesc [...]

Keywords: alice, people, bottles, furniture, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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Alice talks to the Kitten

“Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,” Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, “when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting y [...]

Keywords: people, furniture, chairs, relaxing, alice, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-20

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Methley Hall

“Methley Hall, or Methley Park, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, seven miles south-east from Leeds, is the seat of the Saviles, Earls Mexborough, which family have held the manor for several centuries [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, ceilings, arches, stairs, colour, furniture, manors, halls

Places shown: Mickletown; West Riding; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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1141.—Bed.

“Of the domestic furniture of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the beds of the nobility (Figs. 1141, 1142) were most lavishly adorned. The simple form was that of a railed box, or crib; the “b [...]

Keywords: furniture, beds, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-12

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