Circular black snuffbox, varnished with a gilt edge surrounding the portrait of Caroline of Brunswick on the lid and bearing the text 'Queen Caroline of England' at foot
Description:
Title from item.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
"A trade token issued by the famed bookseller James Lackington (1746-1815), the same year he opened the Temple of the Muses, 'one of the wonders of London' (Oxford DNB); with reputedly a million books on display, it was at the time the biggest booksho...
Description:
Title from text on reverse side of item, which surrounds image of an angel blowing a trumpet.
Publisher:
Lackington, Allen and Co and Lutwyche
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Lackington, James, 1746-1815, and Lackington, Allen and Co.
A pot lid with a transfer print showing the figure of Justice in the center with outstretched arms holding laurel wreaths over two lists on either side naming the members of the House of Lords who voted for her acquittal
Alternative Title:
Honour to the defenders of innocence and the rights of the nation
Description:
Title from engraved text on lid.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
An 18th-century oak document box with the lid stamped on the interior: VIRTUOSI PROVIDENT; underside of lid painted: Bought at Sale of the great/VIRTUOSO/Horace Walpole/Earl of Orford. Metal handles now missing. Formerly stored in the Round Tower at ...
Papier-mâché snuff box with a cylindrical body and a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Housed with a 20th-century sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer).
The profile of an actor in the role of a Spanish nobleman bears a strong resemblance to that of David Garrick, in costume on stage looking left, arm raised in a dramatic gesture. Garrick's rule over the English stage was absolute for over thirty years...
Alternative Title:
Shadow box framed depiction David Garrick on stage
Description:
One of a pair of shadowboxes. The other box was titled in the 2005 Christie's appraisal: A shadowbox framed depiction of two actors in performance.
The dancer wearing a Roman toga is perhaps David Garrick, with Mrs. Siddons accompanying him on the lute. In his imaginary journey through time, Three tours through London in the years 1748, 1776, 1797 (New Haven, 1941), Wilmarth S. Lewis 'goes' to t...
Alternative Title:
Shadow box framed depiction two actors in performance
Description:
One of a pair of shadowboxes. The other box is titled: A shadowbox framed depiction David Garrick on stage.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779. and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831.
