Material Collection

Diagram of a Jacquard loom, 1838-1845. Creator: Unknown
Diagram of a Jacquard loom, 1838-1845. French text: Explication de la mecanique a la Jacquard. Bascule ou levier aux fourchettes des quelles est enfilee une chaine fixee elle meme a la caisse de la

Krishna with Gopis on a Riverbank, 1750-1775. Creator: Unknown
Krishna with Gopis on a Riverbank, 1750-1775. The god Krishna places a water pot on the head of Radha, his beloved. Radha is probably also depicted among the other milkmaids at an earlier moment

Cotton Printing at Merton Abbey Works, c1884. Creator: Unknown
Cotton Printing at Merton Abbey Works, c1884. Workers hand-printing cotton fabric with woodblocks at Merton Abbey Mills in south London

Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, . Creator: Unknown
Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works, late 19th century. Female weaver at a loom at Merton Abbey Mills in south London

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden:...at the Theatre Royal, Stockholm..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden:...at the Theatre Royal, Stockholm - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. The future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in Scandinavia

Paris fashions for October, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for October, 1864. 'Fig. 1. Evening Dress. Robe of white alpaca, ornamented with black lace insertion...Muslin chemisette, with collar and cuffs of embroidered muslin

The International Exhibition: Smith's power-loom for weaving tufted pile carpets, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Smith's power-loom for weaving tufted pile carpets, 1862. Loom for Axminster carpet, '...invented by Mr

The International Exhibition: Swiss jacquard-loom for weaving ribbons..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Swiss jacquard-loom for weaving ribbons - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862

Constance Talmage [i.e. Talmadge], between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Constance Talmage [i.e. Talmadge], between c1915 and c1920. Shows American silent movie star Constance Alice Talmadge (1898-1973).

Paris fashions for January 1865, (1864). Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for January 1865, (1864). 'Fig. 1. Evening Dress. Robe of pale rose-coloured taffety, the corsage a ceinture ornamented with a sort of basquine composed of black velvet bands

Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America, 1864. Creator: Joseph Austin Benwell
Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. C. L. Rowsell of Valparaiso, of indigenous people belonging to '...the half-civilised part of the native South

British training, tailor shop, 17 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British training, tailor shop, 17 Aug 1917 (date created or published later). Soldiers at a tailor's shop cutting out cloth, Tadworth Camp, England, during World War I.

Kaiser and his Generals, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Kaiser and his Generals, between c1910 and c1915. German Kaiser Wilhelm II with his generals during World War I: standing left to right: von Bulow, von Mackensen, von Molike

Surplice sewn by tsarevnas, the sisters of Peter the Great, Trinity Monastery, Aleksandrov, 1911.

Phelonion [vestment] from the second half of the eighteenth century, from a very old..., 1911
Phelonion [vestment] from the second half of the eighteenth century, from a very old fabric called kamka [silk brocade] with shoulders embroidered with pearls on crimson velvet. In the Rostov Museum

Golden vessels in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Golden vessels in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911.

Iconostasis in the Church of Saint John the Theologian, Rostov Velikii, 1911.

Miraculous icon brought by Saint Dalmat, Dalmatovo, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Miraculous icon brought by Saint Dalmat, Dalmatovo, 1912.

Silver vessels, in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Silver vessels, in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911.

Paris fashions for December, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for December, 1862. 'Fig. 1. Evening Dress. Robe of stout corded apple-green taffety...with a guipure on a white ground; the sleeves are also trimmed with a similar transparent

The funeral of the Duke of Newcastle at Markham Clinton, Notts., 1864. Creator: Unknown
The funeral of the Duke of Newcastle at Markham Clinton, Notts., 1864. 'The inscription [on the coffin] was as follows: "Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle

Paris fashions for November, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for November, 1864. 'Fig. 1. Morning Dress. This is altogether an "at home" costume, the colour of the dress being generally light, over a gay-coloured jupe

Paris fashions for December, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for December, 1864. Fig. 1. Walking Dress. Grey poplin robe, trimmed on the body and skirt with black dentated velvet and long chenille fringe...The corsage is a basques

The Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures at Dublin, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures and Industry at Dublin, 1864. View of the Agricultural Hall, Earlsfort Terrace. 'The central portion was divided from its smaller adjuncts by wooden

Lying in State of the Remains of the late King of Denmark..., Copenhagen, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Lying in State of the Remains of the late King of Denmark in the Castrum Doloris, or Mourners' Hall, at the Royal Palace, Copenhagen, 1864

Burial of the late King of Denmark: the coffin being borne to the mausoleum..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
Burial of the late King of Denmark: the coffin being borne to the mausoleum at the close of the funeral service in Roeskilde Catheral, 1864

Paris fashions for August, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for August, 1864. 'Fig. 1. Walking Dress. Robe and paletot of grey foulard, with three rows of dark violet silk

Paris fashions for September, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for September, 1864. 'Fig. 1. Walking Dress. Green silk dress, deeply vandyked, each tooth being ornamented with rich white guipure

The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: Schleswig costumes, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: Schleswig costumes, 1864. 'Sand-eel fisher-girl of Blavand's Bay; peasant girl of Fohr in her Sunday attire; peasant woman of Ostenfeldt in her Sunday

Paris fashions for February, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Paris fashions for February, 1864. 'Fig. 1. Walking Dress. Dark brown silk robe, trimmed round the bottom of the skirt with a wide band of black velvet

Homemade meal; acquaintances of the Irkutsk merchant V.M. Posokhin, 1910-1919. Creator: Unknown
Homemade meal; acquaintances of the Irkutsk merchant V.M. Posokhin, 1910-1919. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Phelonion [vestment]. From the time of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich. In the vestry of the Assumption Cathedral. Rostov Velikii, 1911.

Olof Håkansson, 1695-1769, c18th century. Creator: Anon
Olof Hakansson, 1695-1769, c18th century

Unknown woman with the Gyllenstierna and Eka arms, early 17th century. Creator: Anon
Unknown woman with the Gyllenstierna and Eka arms, early 17th century

The Morning Toilet. Boudoir Scene, mid-18th-early 19th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
The Morning Toilet. Boudoir Scene, mid-18th-early 19th century

The Flower Vendor, 1640. Creator: Paulus Bor
The Flower Vendor, 1640

Self portrait, c1690. Creator: Michael Dahl
Self portrait, c1690

Portrait of the wholesale dealer Johan Fredrik Burghadi, 1781. Creator: Lorens Pasch the Younger
Portrait of the wholesale dealer Johan Fredrik Burghadi, 1781

Portrait of Pope Alexander VII, c1650. Creator: Giovanni Battista Gaulli Baciccio
Portrait of Pope Alexander VII, c1650

St Hugh of Lincoln and St Benedict of Nursia. Creator: Gherardo di Jacopo
St Hugh of Lincoln and St Benedict of Nursia, Unknown date

The Lace-Maker, 1885. Creator: Georg Pauli
The Lace-Maker, 1885

Oskar I, 1799-1859, King of Sweden and Norway, c1830s. Creator: Fredric Westin
Oskar I, 1799-1859, King of Sweden and Norway, c1830s

Queen Henrietta Maria of England, 1632-1641. Creator: Anthony van Dyck
Queen Henrietta Maria of England, 1632-1641

Otto van Rees, Governor-general, after 1884-c.1899. Creator: Unknown
Otto van Rees, Governor-general, after 1884-c.1899. Van Rees (1823-1892) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1884-1888

Interior with a Mother Combing her Child's Hair, Known as Maternal Care, 1669. Creator: Gaspar Netscher
Interior with a Mother Combing her Child's Hair, Known as Maternal Care, 1669. Woman wearing a silk dress and a fur-trimmed jacket with her two children

George I (of Hanover), (c1911). Creator: Unknown
George I (of Hanover), (c1911). King George I of Great Britain. From a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. In the National Portrait Gallery'

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, 1590-1827. Creator: Guido Reni
Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, 1590-1827

Venus and Cupid, 1531-1578. Creator: Simone Peterzano
Venus and Cupid, 1531-1578

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