New Old Time
O.P.! O.P.! The Old Price Riots of 1809 and the...
In September 1809, the newly rebuilt Covent Garden Theatre opened with dramatically increased ticket prices. The audience’s response was immediate, sustained, and extraordinarily theatrical: 67 consecutive nights of chanting, banging,...
O.P.! O.P.! The Old Price Riots of 1809 and the...
In September 1809, the newly rebuilt Covent Garden Theatre opened with dramatically increased ticket prices. The audience’s response was immediate, sustained, and extraordinarily theatrical: 67 consecutive nights of chanting, banging,...
Agile as a Swallow's Flight: Marcello Dudovich ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, a generation of Italian illustrators — Marcello Dudovich, Ernesto Pirovano, Teodoro Wolf Ferrari — transformed the advertising of typewriters into some of the finest graphic...
Agile as a Swallow's Flight: Marcello Dudovich ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, a generation of Italian illustrators — Marcello Dudovich, Ernesto Pirovano, Teodoro Wolf Ferrari — transformed the advertising of typewriters into some of the finest graphic...
The Thunder of Wagram: August Schultz and the N...
On 5–6 July 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte fought and won the Battle of Wagram on the plains north of Vienna — the largest battle of his career to that point, and...
The Thunder of Wagram: August Schultz and the N...
On 5–6 July 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte fought and won the Battle of Wagram on the plains north of Vienna — the largest battle of his career to that point, and...
The Flower Merchant of Frankfurt: Emanuel Sweer...
In 1612, the Dutch plant merchant Emanuel Sweert published his Florilegium at the Frankfurt Fair — one of the first illustrated plant catalogues in the history of botany, documenting the...
The Flower Merchant of Frankfurt: Emanuel Sweer...
In 1612, the Dutch plant merchant Emanuel Sweert published his Florilegium at the Frankfurt Fair — one of the first illustrated plant catalogues in the history of botany, documenting the...
The Stones of the Empire: Gustav von Hayek and ...
In 1887, the Austrian naturalist Gustav von Hayek published chromolithographic plates documenting the mineral kingdom — opal, jasper, onyx, quartz, fluorite, and apatite — with the scientific precision and visual...
The Stones of the Empire: Gustav von Hayek and ...
In 1887, the Austrian naturalist Gustav von Hayek published chromolithographic plates documenting the mineral kingdom — opal, jasper, onyx, quartz, fluorite, and apatite — with the scientific precision and visual...
The White Gold of Saxony: Karl Berling and the ...
In 1900, Karl Berling published Das Meissner Porzellan — a chromolithographic documentation of the Meissen manufactory’s finest designs, from the earliest pieces of 1710 to the height of its artistic...
The White Gold of Saxony: Karl Berling and the ...
In 1900, Karl Berling published Das Meissner Porzellan — a chromolithographic documentation of the Meissen manufactory’s finest designs, from the earliest pieces of 1710 to the height of its artistic...