Painting/Art Bookmarks

Text on the reverse side: Painted by Carl Spitzweg c.1850, the library is decorated in rococo style with a man standing at the top of a ladder. Hi...

Text on the reverse side: The original painting, destroyed by fire in 1698, was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger. The king commissioned several...

Text on the reverse side: View of Pontoise, located northwest of Paris. The critic Émile Zola’s described Pissarro’s work of the rural French land...

Text on the reverse side: St. Thomas, where the artist Camille Pissarro was born, is an island in the Southern Caribbean. Having been sent to a bo...

Text on the reverse side: It is said that from not wanting to paint outdoors for his vulnerability to eye infections and his aversion to the busy ...

Text on the reverse side: Dating back to ancient times, knot-tying is an important skill for sailing and maritime activity. There are over 3,800 t...

Text on the reverse side: Datant de l’Antiquité, l’art du matelotage est une compétence importante pour la voile et les activités maritimes. Il ex...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration montrant l'évolution des uniformes de la marine française de 1690 à 1930. Le type d'uniforme porté et d'ins...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration showing the evolution of French Naval Uniforms from 1690 to 1930. The type of uniform worn and insignia dis...

Text on the reverse side: With earliest models dating back to the 2ndC, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere with e...

Text on the reverse side: Les sphères armillaires, dont les premiers modèles remontent au IIème siècle, sont des représentations en laiton de la s...

Text on the reverse side: Les bouées sifflantes aident les marins à s’orienter par temps brumeux et incertains. Lorsque la bouée monte et descend ...

Text on the reverse side: L'École navale, ou Académie navale française, forme les officiers de la Marine française depuis 1830. Cette illustration...

Text on the reverse side: Cette carte a été créée en 1660 par le graveur et éditeur néerlandais Justus Danckerts. L'entreprise familiale cartograp...

Text on the reverse side: Les marins sont les membres actifs de l’équipage d’un navire au-dessous du grade d’officier. Cette illustration d'un mar...

Text on the reverse side: This map was created in 1660 by Dutch engraver and print publisher Justus Danckerts. The Danckerts cartographic family b...

Text on the reverse side: Whistling buoys help sailors find their way in foggy and misty weather. As the buoy bobs up and down in the water, compr...

Text on the reverse side: The École navale, or the French Naval Academy, has trained the officers of the French Navy since 1830. This illustration...

Text on the reverse side: Sailors are the working members of a ship’s crew below the officer-level rank. This illustration of a sailor from the Fr...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration from the botanical book ‘The Temple of Flora’. The begonia is mildly toxic to humans and animals where inge...

Text on the reverse side: This portrait miniature of Charles Dickens with dark curls was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1844, b...

Text on the reverse side: In this posthumous engraving by Samuel Hollyer, Dickens is seated at a desk in his country home of Gad’s Hill Place, whe...

Text on the reverse side: This portrait of Charles Dickens was painted during his first tour of North America, where he caught the attention of Am...

Text on the reverse side: In the publication Eclipse, 14th June 1868, André Gill illustrates Dickens crossing the English Channel holding his favo...

Text on the reverse side: Following his father's imprisonment at Marshalsea Prison for debt, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), then aged just 12 years ...

Text on the reverse side: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) began his writing career aged 20 as a journalist and parliamentary reporter. During this tim...

Text on the reverse side: Robert Buss, an admirer of Charles Dickens’ writings, painted the piece five years after the author’s death. Filled with...

Text on the reverse side: Part of a series of Indian miniature paintings called Ragamala, ‘Garland of Ragas’. Each painting represents a different...

Text on the reverse side: A part of an album including 326 paintings, this piece was painted by Shaikh Zain al-Din. Although the painter was train...

Text on the reverse side: Indian ringneck parakeets are notorious for their excellent talking skills. They were once considered sacred. Religious ...

Text on the reverse side: Damayanti and Nala, from an Indian love story, fall for each other without ever having met. A golden swan acts as a mess...

Text on the reverse side: God Krishna dances on the serpent deity Kaliya’s head as punishment for polluting the river. Kaliya’s wives surround Kri...

Text on the reverse side: Om is one of the most important symbols, a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism, said to be the...

Text on the reverse side: The love of Krishna and Radha is expressed by the multitude of birds, the flowering trees, and the intertwining of their...

Text on the reverse side: Hindu goddess of fortune, Lakshmi, holds a lotus flower as symbols of self-knowledge and spiritual liberation. Her four ...

Text on the reverse side: The Mughal painting depicts the ancient tale of Wag-wag, a mythical island believed to be populated by creatures possess...