Sculpture created by Jean-François Bory in 1979 comprised of a gilded typewriter adorned with toy soldiers and oversized letters toppled around them, encased in Plexiglas. Signed and dated
Description:
Jean-François Bory (born 1938) is a French poet, writer, editor, visual artist, and filmmaker whose avant-garde work centers on visual poetry and sound poetry. Born in Paris, Bory spent part of his childhood in South East Asia before returning to the...
Subject (Name):
Bory, Jean-François, 1938-
Subject (Topic):
Concrete poetry, French, Experimental poetry, French, and Visual poetry, French
An 18th-century oak document box with the lid stamped on the interior: VIRTUOSI PROVIDENT; underside of lid painted: Bought at Sale of the great/VIRTUOSO/Horace Walpole/Earl of Orford. Metal handles now missing. Formerly stored in the Round Tower at ...
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate;...
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Obverse: In center, full-length portrait of Jeffery Dunstan facing right; legend inscription with Dunstan's name and title as Mayor of Garrat. Reverse: In center, six lines of inscription with T. Hall's address and date, the penulitimate line is much ...
Alternative Title:
T. Hall, Citty Road near Finsbury Square, London, 1795
Description:
Title from text on obverse side of token.
Publisher:
Thomas Hall
Subject (Name):
Hall, Thomas (Taxidermist), Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797., and Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797,
Iron door knocker, purportedly from a house associated with Samuel Johnson, circa 1740s-1780s. The knocker is mounted on a wooden panel, set into a clamshell box. At the foot of the panel is a brass plaque, engraved with information about the door kno...
Description:
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English author and lexicographer. He lived in many locations throughout his life, including two houses in London: 17 Gough Square, where he lived from 1748-1749, and 8 Bolt Court, where he lived beginning in 1776.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833., and Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Architecture, Domestic, Authors, English, Building fittings, and Door knockers
Papier-mâché snuff box with a cylindrical body and a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Housed with a 20th-century sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer).
The profile of an actor in the role of a Spanish nobleman bears a strong resemblance to that of David Garrick, in costume on stage looking left, arm raised in a dramatic gesture. Garrick's rule over the English stage was absolute for over thirty years...
Alternative Title:
Shadow box framed depiction David Garrick on stage
Description:
One of a pair of shadowboxes. The other box was titled in the 2005 Christie's appraisal: A shadowbox framed depiction of two actors in performance.
