Art/Painting Art Prints

Illustration by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, featuring ‘hedgehog’ in various languages. The word 'hedgehog' was first used in 1450 and is derived fro...

Illustration from the Ex Libris page of an 1875 edition of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe thought to be inspired by Charles Dickens’ pet raven, Gri...

A silhouette of Charles Dickens sold from The Old Curiosity Shop in London. His novel The Old Curiosity Shop was published as a weekly series. Read...

Les boussoles sont des outils utiles dans la navigation terrestre et maritime. On utilise une boussole dite d’arpenteur pour cartographier les terr...

With earliest models dating back to the 2ndC, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere with either the earth or sun at t...

Cette carte a été créée en 1660, par le graveur et éditeur néerlandais, Justus Danckerts. L'entreprise familiale de cartographie Danckerts, était u...

This map was created in 1660 by Dutch engraver and print publisher Justus Danckerts. The Danckerts cartographic family business was a major map and...

Datant de l’Antiquité, l’art du matelotage est une compétence importante pour la voile et les activités maritimes. Il existe plus de 3800 types de ...

Dating back to ancient times, knot-tying is an important skill for sailing and maritime activity. There are over 3,800 types of knots in the world,...

Compasses are useful tools in both land-based and maritime navigation, employing a magnetised needle to identify true north. This is a surveyor’s c...

Les phares anciens étaient rudimentaires, constitués de plates-formes ou de petites structures surmontées de feux. Au XIXe siècle, l’ingénierie des...

Ancient lighthouses were rudimentary, consisting of platforms or small structures with fires on top. In the 19th C., lighthouse engineering became ...

Les bouées sifflantes aident les marins à s’orienter par temps brumeux et incertains. Lorsque la bouée monte et descend dans l’eau, l’air comprimé ...

Whistling buoys help sailors find their way in foggy and misty weather. As the buoy bobs up and down in the water, compressed air passes through th...

L'École navale, ou Académie navale française, forme les officiers de la Marine française depuis 1830. Cette illustration est tirée d'une série de c...

The École navale, or the French Naval Academy, has trained the officers of the French Navy since 1830. This illustration of a young cadet is from a...

Les marins sont les membres actifs de l’équipage d’un navire au-dessous du grade d’officier. Cette illustration d'un marin provient d'une série de ...

Sailors are the working members of a ship’s crew below the officer-level rank. This illustration of a sailor from the French Navy comes from a seri...

Le Petit Journal était un quotidien parisien populaire publié entre 1843 et 1944. Sur cette couverture figure le navire de guerre français Marengo,...

Le Petit Journal was a popular daily Parisian newspaper published between 1843 and 1944. The French naval ship Marengo is featured on this cover, n...

Illustration montrant l'évolution des uniformes de la marine française de 1690 à 1930. Le type d'uniforme porté et d'insignes affichés par un membr...

Illustration showing the evolution of French Naval Uniforms from 1690 to 1930. The type of uniform worn and insignia displayed by a member of the F...

Illustration from the botanical book ‘The Temple of Flora’. The begonia is mildly toxic to humans and animals where ingesting leaves an unpleasant ...

This portrait miniature of Charles Dickens with dark curls was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1844, before being lost for 174 ye...

In this posthumous engraving by Samuel Hollyer, Dickens is seated at a desk in his country home of Gad’s Hill Place, where he completed A Tale of T...

In the publication Eclipse, 14th June 1868, André Gill illustrates Dickens crossing the English Channel holding his favourite novels. In a letter, ...

Part of a series of Indian miniature paintings called Ragamala, ‘Garland of Ragas’. Each painting represents a different mode of Indian music perso...

A part of an album including 326 paintings, this piece was painted by Shaikh Zain al-Din. Although the painter was trained in Mughal techniques, th...

Indian ringneck parakeets are notorious for their excellent talking skills. They were once considered sacred. Religious leaders in India observed t...

Damayanti and Nala, from an Indian love story, fall for each other without ever having met. A golden swan acts as a messenger between them. Eventua...

God Krishna dances on the serpent deity Kaliya’s head as punishment for polluting the river. Kaliya’s wives surround Krishna begging for mercy.

Om is one of the most important symbols, a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism, said to be the essence of the cosmic worl...

The Universal Larousse was a combined dictionary and encyclopaedia. The dictionary focused on the presentation of French language words with illust...

The Universal Larousse was a combined dictionary and encyclopaedia. The dictionary focused on the presentation of French language words with illust...

The love of Krishna and Radha is expressed by the multitude of birds, the flowering trees, and the intertwining of their bodies. The Indian idea, t...

Throughout the Tudor period, dogs were popular pets and were often kept as guard dogs and used for hunting. The breed of dog a person could own dep...