Antiquities and Works of Art. Ancient specimens of Roman and Grecian Mosaic Glass. Amphora, Cruche, or Œnochœ, small Bottle, ribbed Cup.
Ancient specimens of Roman and Grecian Glass. Antiquities & Works of Art.
The Rock temple of El Deir at Petra. The Holy Land by David Roberts.
The general view of Petra strikes every traveller with admiration. El Deir stands a thousand feet above the level of the City.
Ryggastuga. The Swedish farmhouse. Interior and household goods.
The Swedish farmhouse, the so-called Ryggastuga, is a small, simple dwelling house with a grass roof. Interior and household goods.
Anglo Saxon ornaments. Fibula, Pendant, Pin and Buckle.
Fibula of gold and bronze. Pendant or bulla of gold. Pin and Buckle of of bronze. Discovered at Wingham, near Canterbury, in 1843.
Niagara. View Below Table Rock, ca. 1837
Outward the light struggles brokenly through the crystal wall of the cataract; and when the sun shines directly on its face, it is a scene of unimaginable glory.
The origin of Croissants. The vanished pomps of yesterday.
When Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI of France, she missed her Kipfel, and sent to Vienna for an Austrian baker to teach his Paris confreres the art of making them.
Folk costumes from the different regions of France. 19th Century.
French Folk costumes from Brittany, Normandy, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Provence, Hauts-de-France region, Haute-Savoie, Corsica.
Descent upon the Valley of Jordan 1839.
The View is taken from the highway leading from Jerusalem through Jericho, and forming a part of the road, by which Jerusalem was connected with the countries on the Euphrates
Baalbek from the Fountain May 7th 1839.
The grandeur of the ruins of Baalbek can best be appreciated by the large drawings in this Work of the eastern portico of the temple
Exterior view of the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece.
A space of twenty feet in breadth, between two parallel walls, leads to the Treasury of Atreus.