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Description: Trade card for James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse, Opposite the Church in little...

TitleTrade card for James Wheeleys Paper Hanging Warehouse, Opposite the Church in little Britain & Aldersgate Street, London

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1754

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching

Dimensions15.4 × 18.4 cm

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Heal-91-58

Accession numberHeal,91.58

SubjectsAdvertising cardsPaperhangingPrints, British

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“Neat and Not Too Showey”: Words and Wallpaper in Regency England

Amanda Vickery

Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830

IN AUGUST 1799, Dr. Thomas Ferris of the Deanery, Battle, in Sussex, wrote to the London wallpaper and decorating firm Trollope and Sons, having seen some paper at the architect-designed mansion of a local friend...

Author

Amanda Vickery

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.201-219

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00205.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20182&redirecttoanchor=50600

Chapter subject tags:Aesthetics, Modern--18th centuryInterior decoration--England--18th centuryWomen and gender--Britain--18th centuryConsumer (Economics)--England--18th centuryWallpaper--Britain--18th century

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The Turner and Vernon Rooms in the South Kensington Museum

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1860

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

The Turner and Vernon Rooms in the South...

The Turner and Vernon Rooms in the South Kensington Museum

Model of a house on a platform

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date100 BC–AD 300

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions13 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 7 in. (35.2 x 28.6 x 17.8 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/120440

Accession number1991.479

Model of a house on a platform

Model of a circular ceremonial center

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsCeramic and pigment

Dimensions13 x 18 1/2 in. (33 x 47 cm )

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/75238

Accession number1989.639

Model of a circular ceremonial center

Storyteller figure

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureJalisco

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions22 x 22 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/73795

Accession number1989.83

Storyteller figure

Cutting the Base of the Vendôme Column, Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 27 May 1871

Cutting the Base of the Vendôme...

Cutting the Base of the Vendôme Column, Paris

Justinian and his retinue, including Archbishop Maximian

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 545-547AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

Justinian and his retinue, including...

Justinian and his retinue, including Archbishop Maximian

Trade card for [Richard] Masefield's...Manufactory in the Strand, London

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 10

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1760

Object typePrint

MaterialsUncolored etching

Dimensions27.3 × 21.8 cm

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Heal-91-41

Accession numberHeal,91.41

Trade card for [Richard]...

Trade card for [Richard] Masefield's...Manufactory in the Strand, London

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan worshipping Christ

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator name (description)Presumably Saint Dunstan

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation dateAD 930–970

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBodleian Library, Oxford University, United Kingdom

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/a7ebbb6f-414f-4bb9-9399-b3ed588c15af

Accession numberMs. Auct. F.4.32, fol. 1

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan...

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan worshipping Christ

Codex Tudela: Indian costumes

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 18

Creator nationality/cultureAztec

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1530–1554

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsLaid paper and natural pigments

LocationMuseo del América, Madrid

Codex Tudela: Indian costumes

The Happy Free Labourers of England/The Wretched Slaves in the West Indies

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator name (description)A. Ducôtés

Creator nationality/cultureBritish

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1833

Object typePrint

MaterialsLithograph

DimensionsImage: 150 × 233 mm

LocationFrom "McLean's Monthly Sheet of Caricatures or the Looking Glass", vol. IV, no. 43 (1 July 1883), p. 3 (detail). Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12332

Accession number18,680,808.12

The Happy Free Labourers of England/The...

The Happy Free Labourers of England/The Wretched Slaves in the West Indies

Rebuilding

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 8 April 1871

Rebuilding

Bringing up Ship Guns at the Buttes Montmartre

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 4 February 1871

Bringing up Ship Guns at the Buttes...

Bringing up Ship Guns at the Buttes Montmartre

Shooting Communist Prisoners in the Garden of the Luxembourg

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 17 June 1871

Shooting Communist Prisoners in the...

Shooting Communist Prisoners in the Garden of the Luxembourg

Ignatius Sancho's shop card, "Sancho's Best Trinidado"

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 19

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1774–1780

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching

Dimensions60 x 90 mm (cropped)

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1656035&partId=1&searchText=ignatius+sancho&page=1

Accession numberD,2.3977

Ignatius Sancho's shop card, "Sancho's...

Ignatius Sancho's shop card, "Sancho's Best Trinidado"

Encounter on the Place Pigalle

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 1 April 1871

Encounter on the Place Pigalle

Description: Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in...

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in Classe

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. AD 668–685

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring...

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in Classe

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten Commandments

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation date1373

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Accession numberFr. 14939, fol. 5r

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten...

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten Commandments

The Last Perquisition

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 17 June 1871

The Last Perquisition

Funerary Cheek-Piercing Ritual

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date200 BC–AD 300

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

DimensionsDiameter 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/148347

Accession number1997.475

Funerary Cheek-Piercing Ritual

Tobacco paper for "Newman's best Virginia"

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 19

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3163038&partId=1&searchText=newman%27s+best+virginia&page=1

Accession numberHeal,117.121

Tobacco paper for "Newman's best...

Tobacco paper for "Newman's best Virginia"

Laocoön

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 23

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date40–30 B.C.

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

DimensionsH: 95 1/4 in. (242 cm)

LocationVatican Museums, Rome

https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1059.0.0?lang=en_US

Accession numberCat. 1059

Laocoön

Theodora and her retinue

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 545 AD-547AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

Theodora and her retinue

Description: Portrait of Michel-Eugène Chevreul pasted into Homer's copy of...

Portrait of Michel-Eugène Chevreul pasted into Homer's copy of "Chevreul on Colours"

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Object typePrint

LocationStrong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York

Portrait of Michel-Eugène...

Portrait of Michel-Eugène Chevreul pasted into Homer's copy of "Chevreul on Colours"

Description: Installation view of Primary Structures exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York,...

Installation view of Primary Structures exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York, showing works by Donald Judd

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 23

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1966

Object typePhotograph

Installation view of Primary Structures...

Untitled 1966 (on wall) and Untitled 1966 (on floor)

St. Jerome in his Study

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1500–1510

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

Dimensions11 x 8 in. (28 x 20.4 cm)

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/29742001

Accession number1845,0825.690

St. Jerome in his Study

Roman de la Rose: Copying and illuminating the folios of a manuscript

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation datec. 1300

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Accession numberFr. 25526, fol. 77v

Roman de la Rose: Copying and...

Roman de la Rose: Copying and illuminating the folios of a manuscript

Female figure with an apron table

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 300–700

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions13 3/8 x 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (34 x 24.5 x 19.4 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/312579

Accession number1979.206.357

Female figure with an apron table

Wooden implement

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 02

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1400–1600

Object typeTool/Implement

MaterialsWood

DimensionsWidth 7 3/4 in. (19.8 cm)

LocationCleveland Museum of Art

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1950.411

Accession number1950.411

Wooden implement

Bestiary: Creation of Eve

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator nationality/cultureEnglish

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation date1201–1225

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBodleian Library, Oxford University, United Kingdom

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/547571c6-0e1e-414f-b245-f36706655540

Accession numberMs. Ashmole 1511, fol. 7

Bestiary: Creation of Eve

The Late Events in Paris: A Woman Shot at the Louvre for Spreading Petroleum

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 10 June 1871

The Late Events in Paris: A Woman Shot...

The Late Events in Paris: A Woman Shot at the Louvre for Spreading Petroleum

Phytomorphic Vessel

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureColima

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date200 BC–AD 500

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsBurnished ceramic with slip

DimensionsHeight 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)

LocationLos Angeles County Museum of Art

http://collections.lacma.org/node/182618

Accession numberAC1996.146.27

Phytomorphic Vessel

Blackamoor figures

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 01

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 1875–1900

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsPainted and gilt wood and metal

Dimensions24 x 7 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. (61 x 19.7 x 17.5 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston

https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/141477/pair-of-candlesticks-with-figures-of-blackamoors

Accession number96.1127.1

Blackamoor figures

Portable Mosaic Icon with Saint John Chrysostom

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator nationality/cultureByzantine

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 1325

Object typeMosaic

MaterialsMiniature mosaic set in wax on wood panel, with gold, gilded copper (?), and multicolored stones

Dimensions7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (18 x 13 cm)

LocationDumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.

http://museum.doaks.org/Obj27115

Accession numberBZ.1954.2

Portable Mosaic Icon with Saint John...

Portable Mosaic Icon with Saint John Chrysostom

Christ Flanked by Disciples

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator nationality/cultureByzantine

Creator roleSculptor

Creation dateAD 886–912

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsIvory

Dimensions4 x 3 7/8 x 3/4 in. (10.3 x 10 x 2 cm)

LocationStaatliche Museen zu Berlin

https://id.smb.museum/object/1415193

Accession number2006

Christ Flanked by Disciples

Following the "Gentle Craft," at the Pont de Neuilly, Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Graphic, 20 May 1871

Following the "Gentle Craft," at the...

Following the "Gentle Craft," at the Pont de Neuilly, Paris

Procession of female saints

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 550 AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy

Procession of female saints

Fall of the Column

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 27 May 1871

Fall of the Column

Laocoön, detail of lower torso and legs

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 17

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date40–30 B.C.

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationVatican Museums, Rome

https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1059.0.0?lang=en_US

Accession numberCat. 1059

Laocoön, detail of lower torso and...

Laocoön, detail of lower torso and legs

Model of a Tree-Climbing Ritual

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsCeramic and pigment

DimensionsHeight 9 in. (22.8 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/120168

Accession number1990.554.2

Model of a Tree-Climbing Ritual

The Virgin and Child (Theotokos Hodegetria)

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 1100–1200

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsIvory

Dimensions12 7/8 x 3 5/8 x 2 in. (32.7 x 9.2 x 5.2 cm)

LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93178/virgin-and-child-theotokos-hodegetria-statuette-unknown/

Accession number702-1884

The Virgin and Child (Theotokos...

The Virgin and Child

The Veroli Casket

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator nationality/cultureByzantine

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. AD 950–1000

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsIvory and bone on wood core; metal hardware

Dimensions4 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 15 7/8 in. (11.5 x 16 x 40.3 cm)

LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70463/veroli-casket-casket-unknown/

Accession number216-1865

The Veroli Casket

The Ruins of Paris: Porte Maillot and the Avenue de l Grande Armée

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 27

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

Locationreproduced in The Illustrated London News, 24 June 1871

The Ruins of Paris: Porte Maillot and...

The Ruins of Paris: Porte Maillot and the Avenue de l Grande Armée

Portrait of Fath Khan, son of Malik Ambar

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 14

Creator nationality/cultureIndian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1610–1620

Object typePainting

MaterialsOpaque watercolor and gold on paper

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/148777/possibly-fath-khan-son-of-malik-ambar

Accession number17.3103

Portrait of Fath Khan, son of Malik...

Portrait of Malik Ambar

Description: Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows Adored by St. John the Baptist and another...

Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows Adored by St. John the Baptist and another Saint

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1470–1485

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

Dimensions9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (24.3 x 19 cm)

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/29367001

Accession number1856,0712.1029

Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows...

Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows Adored by St. John the Baptist and another Saint

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