- Firing the letters
The disk containing the enameled letters is taken at the end of a long iron handle and carefully placed in a dome-shaped muffle. These muffles are all heated from the outside; that is, the fire is all round the chamber, but not in it, the fumes of the sulphur being destructive of the enamel if they are allowed to come into contact with it. So intense is the heat, however, that a muffle lasts only about nine days, and at the end of that time has to be renewed. - Mixing the enamel
Mixing the enamel - The Blacksmith
The Blacksmith - Dusting the letters before firing
The letters are now taken charge of by a girl, who lays them out on a wire tray, the hollow side up, and paints them over with a thin mordant. While they are in this position, and before the mordant dries, they are taken on the gridiron-like tray to a kind of large box, which is full of the powdered enamel, and, holding the tray in her left hand, the girl takes a fine sieve full of the powder and dusts it over the letter, all superfluous powder falling through the open wirework and into the bin again, so that there is absolutely no waste. - Filing the letters after enameling
This is done by girls, who, with very fine files, rub off the edges and any protuberances which may be there. Every letter is subject to this operation, and all are turned out smooth and well finished. - The First printed map of England
The First printed map of England - An Ancient brewery
- Ancient Alehouse
- Anglo-Saxon Tumblers
- Anglo-Saxons Feasting and Health-Drinking
- brewhouse
- Cakes and Ale.
- Cornelius Caton
- Cotswold Games
- Cup found in the Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey
- Drinking scene
- Drunkards Cloak
- Eleanor Rummyng
- For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King
- Health-Drinking
- Innkeepers, 1641
- Is it in Condition
- Lady
- Lamentable Complaints
- Man at Alehouse
- man
- Man2
- Mediæval Cellarer
- Mother Louse
- Night Scene in a Fifteenth-century Inn
- Punishment of the Hurdle
- The Ancient Arms
- The Black Boy Inn
- The Falcon Inn, Chester
- The George Inn, Salisbury
- The Pillory
- The Sad Fate of a Mediæval Ale-wife
- A Mediæval Innkeeper
- The Tumbrel
- A Sixteenth-century Cooperage
- Alehouse
- An Ale-house lattice
- An Ale-house lattice
- An Ale-stake
- Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria - Her majesty’s State Carriage
Her majesty’s State Carriage - Marshall Soult's State Carriage
Marshall Soult's State Carriage - The procession approaching Westminster Abbey
The procession approaching Westminster Abbey - Her majesty leaving her private apartments in Westminster Abbey
Her majesty leaving her private apartments in Westminster Abbey - Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace on the morning of the coronation
Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace on the morning of the coronation - The coronation of her majesty Queen Victoria
The coronation of her majesty Queen Victoria - Celtic implements
Their bronze and iron ornaments and utensils were very artistic, curves and scrolls and intertwined work being the chief characteristics of early Celtic Art. Enamelling in red colours was much used on metal work, and studs of coral and pearls, or some bright pebble, were worked into their breastplates, shields, and helmets. - Torques
Round the neck he might have an ornament called a " torque," composed of twisted gold wire, and bracelets of the same on the arms and wrists. These seem to have been worn only by chiefs, and were much prized by their Roman conquerors. - Celt Warrior
- Celt 2
- Celt
- Celtic Chieftain in full war-dress
- Celtic warrior in hunting dress
- Celtic women
A torque of gold was worn as a necklace, and bracelets of bronze or gold were worn on the arms. The hair, parted in the middle and flowing over the shoulders, was bound by a circlet of gold and twisted wire. Sometimes a sort of super-tunic, without sleeves and reaching to just below the knees, with a check border, would be worn over the long gwn. It was confined at the waist with a belt, fastened and ornamented with bosses of bronze or gold. Women of less exalted `rank` wore the same style of dress, but of coarser cloth and less elaborately decorated. - Rescue of Edmund Pet, Mariner, 1613
Another pamphlet, of 1613, has the annexed woodcut, and is entitled ‘Lamentable Newes, shewing the Wonderful Deliverance of Maister Edmond Pet, Sayler, and Maister of a Ship, dwelling in Seething-lane, in London, neere Barking Church; with other strange things lately hapned concerning those great windes and tempestuous weather, both at Sea and Lande. Imprinted at London by T. C., for William Barley, dwelling over against Cree Church, neere Algate. 1613.’ It describes the wreck of a Newcastle ship on the east coast, and how ‘Maister Pet,’ after being exposed to the winds and waves for forty-eight hours, was rescued by a Dutch man-of-war, he being the only survivor from his ship. It will be seen the woodcut represents two seamen lowering what appears to be an arm-chair into the sea. This was probably the artist’s notion of the safest and most comfortable way to rescue shipwrecked persons.