Art Prints

A map of Durham from the publication The Beauties of England & Wales, 1806. The present city of Durham can be traced back to when a group of mo...

Engraved by J. Roper based on a plan by G. Cole, this copperplate printed mat was published in The Beauties of England & Wales in 1806. The num...

Painted by Carl Spitzweg. The love for books is expressed showing a man intently reading a book up close to his face, holding a second book in his ...

While studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Van Gogh painted this humoristic memento mori. Some argue that Van Gogh used the pictu...

Van Gogh painted many versions of the “Sunflowers”. The first he depicted were those used to decorate Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House he rented ...

Castle Howard was begun in 1699 for Charles Howard, the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Designed by dramatist-turned-architect John Vanbrugh with Nicholas Ha...

Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Act II, gives us this simple expression of contentment with a place. Today, amid busy schedules and constant distract...

First appearing in Shakespeare’s Hamlet around 1600, these words have travelled far beyond the stage. Today, the quotation is widely understood as ...

Before designing Castle Howard, Sir John Vanbrugh was better known as a playwright than an architect. Begun in 1699 and taking over a century to co...

La première représentation d'un chapeau, découverte dans une peinture rupestre à Lussac-les-Châteaux, en France, remonte à environ 15 000 av. J.-C....

Les nœuds papillon réversibles ont été conçus pour offrir deux motifs ou deux couleurs en un seul accessoire. Il suffisait de retourner le nœud pou...

Après un apprentissage à Paris, Louis Vuitton ouvrit son propre atelier de fabrication de malles en 1854. La célèbre toile Monogram fut introduite ...

En 1851, dans un atelier à Boston, Isaac Merritt Singer reçut une machine à coudre à réparer. Onze jours plus tard, il construisit un modèle amélio...

Un mannequin est une reproduction du torse utilisée pour ajuster les vêtements lors de leur conception ou confection. Certains appellent « Judy » l...

Les sacs à main à armature métallique ont une histoire étonnamment ancienne. Dès le XVe siècle, des fermoirs en métal étaient déjà utilisés à la pl...

La principale différence entre un mannequin et un buste de couture réside dans la couche de mousse et de tissu qui recouvre sa structure intérieure...

La mode de la silhouette en sablier atteignit son apogée à l’époque victorienne, lorsque des baleines en acier étaient utilisées pour façonner la t...

Les bourses et les sacs à main ont toujours été à la fois une nécessité pratique et de véritables accessoires de mode, leur histoire remontant au X...

This celebrated lithograph presents Jane Avril, one of Montmartre’s most distinctive dancers. Lautrec emphasised her eccentric, high-kicking style ...

The architectural drawing on the desk recalls the ambitious planning behind The Breakers. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the mansion was inspired...

The Breakers features an immense Great Hall rising through two storeys, richly decorated with marble, mosaics, gilding and carved ornament. This th...

Lautrec’s first major poster commission made La Goulue, the Moulin Rouge’s most famous dancer, an icon of Belle Époque Paris. Printed in thousands,...

Divan Japonais depicts a fashionable Parisian café-concert, showing Jane Avril and Édouard Dujardin watching Yvette Guilbert perform. Its flattened...

Jane Avril appears at the far left of this celebrated poster, which she commissioned to promote Mademoiselle Eglantine’s troupe in London. Lautrec’...

Aristide Bruant reportedly insisted that Toulouse-Lautrec design the poster for his Ambassadeurs engagement. Using flat colour, dramatic cropping a...

Created to advertise Aristide Bruant’s appearance at the Eldorado cabaret, Lautrec adapted his earlier Ambassadeurs design by reversing the singer’...

Designed during May Milton’s single season at the Moulin Rouge, Lautrec’s poster presents the English dancer as an arresting modern celebrity. Its ...

Known for her unusual, highly individual dancing style, Jane Avril became a defining figure of Montmartre entertainment. Lautrec’s 1899 lithograph ...

The Breakers contains an extraordinary forty-eight bedrooms for the Vanderbilt family and their household staff. At night, this magnificent seventy...

The Breakers is regarded as the finest surviving example of America's Gilded Age architecture. In 1994, it was designated a National Historic Landm...

The Breakers occupies a commanding position on thirteen acres at Ochre Point, with cliffs overlooking the Atlantic to the east. The ocean façade th...

The Breakers was designed for luxurious summer living and entertaining, combining sea views, gardens, European craftsmanship and modern technology....

The two monumental carriage gates rise thirty feet above the driveway and weigh more than seven tons. Forming part of a twelve-foot-high boundary, ...

A large summer gathering fills the lawn of The Breakers, with guests wearing pale dresses, straw hats and formal suits. The occasion reflects Newpo...

Cornelius Vanderbilt rose from operating a small ferry between Staten Island and Manhattan to building one of America’s greatest transport fortunes...

Post boxes were not always red. During the nineteenth century, many were painted green, but they could be difficult to spot in the countryside. Red...