Nave of Wells Cathedral completely furnished with pointed arches. It is the main work of early English Gothic architecture.
Category: England
Period Costumes and Fashion from England, Regency, Empire, Georgian, Directory, Victorian and Tudor dresses.
Sedan Chair. Designed by the Brothers Adam. England 1776.
PAINTED AND LACQUERED SEDAN CHAIR WITH DOMED TOP. Designed by the Brothers Adam for Lady Watkin Williams Wynn. Now in the Bethnal Green Museum. Circa 1776.
The rock of Gibraltar. No finer panorama could be imagined.
The rock of Gibraltar separates the Atlantic from the Mediterranean. On the highest part of the rock stands the Signal House El Hache.
Tintern Abbey. An excellent specimen of pure Gothic architecture.
Wales. The romantic Tintern Abbey situated amid scenery of the most charming and attractive nature.
Portrait of Margaret of York. The lady with the hennin.
French school, second half of the 15th century.
Portrait of Margaret of York (1446 – 1503), wife of Charles the Bold. The lady with the hennin.
A transverse Spinet made by Stephen Keene at the end of 17th century.
Stephen Keene (about 1640-1719) was an English instrument maker. He made harpsichords, spinets and virginals in his workshop in London.
Bronze stage shoe of Ada Cavendish with Louis heel. Victorian Era.
Three bronze shoes, the first worn on stage by the actress Miss Ada Cavendish. Ladies’ Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century.
Victorian Era. Three fine specimens of the modern shoemaker’s craft.
Victorian Era. Shoemaker’s craft. The cordonnier artist (shoemaker, cobbler) has apparently considered his lines as carefully as the best of yacht builders.
Hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent. Elizabethan England.
Reception hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent at the time of Elisabeth 1573. English Renaissance. Tudor period.
Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of the English King Henry VIII.
Anne of Cleves (1515 – 1557) was the fourth wife of the English King Henry VIII.