Document Collection (#7)

Ancient "forcer", found in Westminster Abbey, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Ancient "forcer", found in Westminster Abbey, 1860. Object...called a "forcer"...[it] is nearly round, and about two feet in diameter and one foot in depth

Lecture d'un testament, 1853. Creator: Honore Daumier
Lecture d'un testament, 1853. The reading of a will. From La Comedie humaine, no. 1

C'est bien parce que c'est votre ami... 1845. Creator: Honore Daumier
C'est bien parce que c'est votre ami... 1845. C'est bien parce que c'est votre ami, et qu'il m'est amene par vous que je consens a lui laisser souscrire les vingt dernieres

Ah! Tu veux te frotter à la presse!!, 1833. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ah! Tu veux te frotter a la presse!!, 1833. Printer, crushing colleague in printing press: Ah! You want to rub shoulders with the press!!'

Ancient skippet, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Ancient skippet, 1860. A container of the time of Edward III, used for the preservation of title-deeds of the Crown. The...box, turned hollow in the lathe, [is] of about four inches diameter

Ancient hanaper, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Ancient hanaper, 1860. A 14th-century container, used for the preservation of title-deeds of the Crown. The...hanaper of twyggys is exactly 480 years old. Its story is interesting

Bengt horn af Åminne (1623-1678) with his two wives Margaretha Sparre and Ingeborg Banér, 1675
Bengt horn af...minne (1623-1678) with his two wives Margaretha Sparre and Ingeborg Baner, 1675

Form of a Treaty of Marriage in China - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Form of a Treaty of Marriage in China - from a drawing by a Chinese artist, 1857. Upon the table is a tablet bearing the names of the contracting parties

Les Indesirables; Examen des pieces d'identite d'un professeur d'une ecole de Mulhouse... 1918
Les Indesirables; Examen des pieces d'identite d'un professeur d'une ecole de Mulhouse et de sa femme, frappes d'expulsion, 1918

Portrait of Jacob Gerard Koch, c1817. Creator: Rembrandt Peale
Portrait of Jacob Gerard Koch, c1817

Portrait of Marten Looten, 1632. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Portrait of Marten Looten, 1632. A prosperous Mennonite grain merchant, appears to be interrupted from reading a document, glancing up with his lips parted as if turning to address a visitor

Regency piece, 1789. Creator: Jan Bulthuis
Regency piece, 1789. Regentenstuk. Four unknown men sitting around a table, a servant on the right, and on the left a young man

The painter Michiel Comans and his third wife Elisabeth van der Mersche in his studio, 1655-1705. Comans was also a textile merchant and schoolmaster

Session of Commissioners to receive the Liberale Gifte...12 September 1747, (1748). Creator: Jacobus Buys
Session of Commissioners to receive the Liberale Gifte, or 50th penny, 12 September 1747, (1748). Men sitting and standing around a table, a woman leaves the room reading a piece of paper

Old Man in his Study, 1833. Creator: George Gillis Haanen
Old Man in his Study, 1833

Portrait of Adriaan van der Vliet (1707-77), Poet in Rotterdam, 1732-1771. Creator: Dionys van Nijmegen
Portrait of Adriaan van der Vliet (1707-77), Poet in Rotterdam, 1732-1771

Portrait of Pieter van de Poel (1654-1710), 1690-1729. Creator: Arnold Boonen
Portrait of Pieter van de Poel (1654-1710), 1690-1729

Rodolphe le Chevalier (1777-1865), Amsterdam Merchant and one of three Founders of the Holland Railr Creator
Rodolphe le Chevalier (1777-1865), Amsterdam Merchant and one of three Founders of the Holland Railroad Company, 1850

Portrait of Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717), 1688. Creator: Michiel van Musscher
Portrait of Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717), 1688. Politician, mayor of Amsterdam. Document reads: Request...Den Wel Edelen Heer Mr. Nicolaas Witsen, Regerend Burgermeester, 1688

St. Paraskeve Pyatnitsa, unknown date. Creator: Unknown
St. Paraskeve Pyatnitsa, unknown date

Five men in interior, c.1837-c.1903. Creator: Jan Striening
Five men in interior, c.1837-c.1903

Portrait of Maria van IJsseldijk, standing knee piece, 1736-1805. Creator: Isaac Lodewijk La Fargue
Portrait of Maria van IJsseldijk, with marriage certificate, 1736-1805. Knee-length portrait of Maria van IJsseldijk, born in The Hague 11-7-1743

A Visit to the Doctor; A Doctor Examining Urine, 1660-1665. Creator: Gerrit Dou
A Visit to the Doctor; A Doctor Examining Urine, 1660-1665

Trompe L'Oeil: Papers Pinned to Wall, 1735/65. Creator: Martin Cerulli
Trompe L'Oeil: Papers Pinned to Wall, 1735/65

Aphorismi Politici: Trompe l'Oeil with Posted Notices and Prints, 1735/1765. Creator: Martin Cerulli
Aphorismi Politici: Trompe l'Oeil with Posted Notices and Prints, 1735/1765

Trompe l'Oeil of Posted Notices and Prints, 1735/1765. Creator: Martin Cerulli
Trompe l'Oeil of Posted Notices and Prints, 1735/1765

Cantate: Trompe l'Oeil of Posted Prints, 1735/1765. Creator: Martin Cerulli
Cantate: Trompe l'Oeil of Posted Prints, 1735/1765

The Lawyer's Office, 1628. Creator: Pieter de Bloot
The Lawyer's Office, 1628

"The Arrest of John Brown, of Ashford, a Lollard, and one of the First Martyrs in the Early Part of Creators
"The Arrest of John Brown, of Ashford, a Lollard, and one of the First Martyrs in the Early Part of Henry VIII's Reign" - by A. Johnston - from the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1856

Still Life with a Copy of De Waere Mercurius, a Broadsheet with the News of Tromp's Victory over three English Ships on 28 June 1639, and a Poem telling the story of Apelles and the Cobbler, 1655

Sitting of the Crimean Board of Inquiry, in the Hall of Chelsea Hospital, 1856. Creator: Smyth
Sitting of the Crimean Board of Inquiry, in the Hall of Chelsea Hospital, [London], 1856. Military investigation into the actions of certain British officers during the Crimean War

The Crimean Inquiry - Examination of the Earl of Lucan, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Crimean Inquiry - Examination of the Earl of Lucan, 1856. The Board of Inquiry, which was intended to whitewash the Crimean incapables

Scene from the New Play of "The First Printer", at the Princess Theatre, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Scene from the New Play of "The First Printer", at the Princess Theatre, 1856. London stage production:.the second act...the two principal characters - the hero

Life Peerages - the Assistant-Keeper of the Records Reading the Peerage Patent at the Bar of the Hou Creator: Unknown
Life Peerages - the Assistant-Keeper of the Records Reading the Peerage Patent at the Bar of the House of Lords, 1856. The patent of the Earl of Huntingdon was almost illegible from age

Portrait of Jan Wagenaar, City Historian of Amsterdam, 1761. Creator: Tibout Regters
Portrait of Jan Wagenaar, City Historian of Amsterdam, 1761

Robert Jackson Sworn in As Justice, Washington, D.C. July 11 1941. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Robert H. Jackson Sworn in As Justice, Washington, D.C. July 11 1941. Robert [Houghwout] Jackson Was Sworn in As Associate Justice of The Supreme Court in President Roosevelt's Office Before An

Signatures, Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Signatures, Treaty of Ghent, December 24
Signatures, Treaty of Ghent, December 24, 1814. Twenty fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Gambier; Henry Goulburn; William Adams; John Quincy Adams; J. A. Bayard; H

Wilson On Reviewing Stand, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Unknown
[President Woodrow] Wilson [2nd left] On Reviewing Stand, 1917 or 1918. The man presenting certificates is Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War

Woodrow Wilson On Reviewing Stand, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Unknown
Woodrow Wilson On Reviewing Stand, 1917 or 1918. Josephus Daniels, Major General Hugh Lenox Scott, Edith Wilson, President Woodrow Wilson, Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker

Evening Interior, 1651. Creator: Wolfgang Heimbach
Evening Interior, 1651

Still Life with a Trumpet and a Celestial Globe, Trompe l´oeil, 1670. Creator: Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts
Trompe l'Oeil with Trumpet, Celestial Globe and Proclamation by Frederik III;Bench with Trumpet, Celestial Globe and Proclamation by Frederik III

L'ancien négociant, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'ancien negociant, 19th century. Bohemians of Paris. The old negotiator. First man: I don't recognise this signature. Second man: It's mine

P. Lamotte Rateau, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
P. Lamotte Rateau, 19th century. Representatives represented. Given the european fame that has just become associated with the great name of Rateau

Requiescat in pace!, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Requiescat in pace!, 19th century. Body lying under a sheet surrounded by candles. Temporal Power - Foreign Affairs - Petitions - Rest in Peace!

Lansing & group, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Lansing & group, between 1910 and 1920
Lansing & group, between 1910 and 1920. American politician, lawyer and diplomat Robert Lansing, (left): Counselor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I; US Secretary of State

Diploma awarded to William A.Yancey by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, June 12, 1873. Hampton Institute in Virginia was founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School

"The New Education Illustrated" by Edith C. Westcott... 1900. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
"The New Education Illustrated" by Edith C. Westcott, with photographs from life by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Number 2 - Arithmetic, 1900

"The New Education Illustrated" by Edith C. Westcott... 1900. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
"The New Education Illustrated" by Edith C. Westcott, with photographs from life by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Number 1 - Primary, 1900

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