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Reference (shelfmark):: 1763.d.3(24)
Title:: Homeric vase. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Vase and pedestal. Black basaltes. Height of vase, 27⅛ inches. Height of pedestal, 9½ inches. Together, 36⅝ inches. This splendid example is of the class known as 'Homeric vases' from Flaxman's bas-relief of the 'Apotheosis of Homer' which decorates them. They...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1763.d.3(25)
Title:: Vase. Haworth Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Vase. Black, basaltes. Height, 14 inches...This is a good specimen of one of the early vases in basaltes. The scale or frill ornament is borrowed from the antique; a version of which is found on the Romano-British vases; notably on those dug up in York...The fo...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1763.d.3(26)
Title:: Rhyton. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Rhyton, or rather Lêkythos, a vessel for liquid in the form of a female head. Black, basaltes. Height, 11½ inches. This example was probably copies or adapted from illustrations in Sir William Hamilton's great work on vases, or from drawings in Sir Hans Sloane'...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1763.d.3(27)
Title:: Candelabra. Cox and Falcke Collections. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Candelabra with cornucopiae. Blue and white jasper. Height, 12½ inches. Candelabrum with sphynx; one of a pair. Blue and white jasper. Height, 13 inches. These are exquisite examples of Wedgwood's labours in the direction of beautifying articles for holding or ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1763.d.3(28)
Title:: Tripod. Property of Mr Rathbone. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Egptian tripod. Rosso antico, or red ware; black relief. Height, 18 inches. Diameter at top of bowl, 12 inches. The only known example of this size. It is made of the same clay — that from the picturesque locality of Bradwerll Wood, lying high above Burslem — a...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1764.a.3(1)
Title:: The Outram Statue, August, 1876. Photographer: Stretton, William George
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed in the negative, '87/12 Stretton.' Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Mounted as frontispiece. Close view of the equestrian statue of Sir James Outram (1803-1863), erected in Calcutta at the junction of Park Street and Chowringhee Road.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1764.a.3(3)
Title:: Ceremony of unveiling the [Outram] Statue on the 23rd May, 1874. Photographer: Stretton, William George
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events Facing p. 34. View from an upper storey of the Bengal United Services Club on Chowringhee Road, Calcutta, looking down onto the crowd of spectators and the guard of honour gathered round the unveiled equestrian statue of Sir James Outram (1803-1863). The Viceroy's Bodyg...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 23 May 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1780.c.8(8)
Title:: The State Apartments: St George's Hall [Windsor Castle]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of portraits hanging on the wall of St George's Hall.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1780.c.8(9)
Title:: The State Apartments: St George's Hall [Windsor Castle]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of portraits hanging on the wall of St George's Hall.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1780.c.8(20)
Title:: The Private Apartments: the Crimson Drawing Room [Windsor Castle]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the portrait of the Duke of Kent, by Faure after Beechey, hanging on the right side of the recess of the fireplace.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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