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Background imageHand Collection: Space Memorabilia - Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin photo

Space Memorabilia - Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin photo
Space Memorabilia - Apollo 11, high gloss photo of Buzz Aldrin standing before the American Flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission, hand signed by Buzz himself

Background imageHand Collection: Letter written by Ida Stanton on board RMS Carpathia

Letter written by Ida Stanton on board RMS Carpathia
Handwritten letter written on board RMS Carpathia dated 15 August 1912 with original Cunard envelope. Dear Papa and boys... we were delayed by boarding a large cargoe (sic) of spaghetti

Background imageHand Collection: Certificate of Discharge, Liverpool, Thomas Riley

Certificate of Discharge, Liverpool, Thomas Riley
White Star Line - Certificate of Discharge for seaman Thomas Riley, on board the Germanic, signed by E J Smith, future Captain of the Titanic, dated Liverpool, 6 June 1895. Date: 1895

Background imageHand Collection: Edinburgh Fire Brigade - silent hand and arm signals

Edinburgh Fire Brigade - silent hand and arm signals
Edinburgh Fire Brigade, photographs showing silent hand and arm signals, outdoor action photographs Captioned, ??Silent orders for the firemen: signals adopted: by the Edinburgh Fire Brigade??

Background imageHand Collection: Hand shadows, showing famous figures in silhouette

Hand shadows, showing famous figures in silhouette
Illustration of hand shadows, showing famous figures in silhouette. Captioned Lord Salisbury, Mr Gladstone, Bismark, The Late Czar, Gambetta, Crispi, Thiers, Zola'. Date: 1895

Background imageHand Collection: Port Hamilton, New British Harbour

Port Hamilton, New British Harbour
Various depictions of local life at Port Hamilton, a group of islands off the Korean Peninsula. They became a British base in 1885, but only for 2 years until 1887

Background imageHand Collection: Coaching Club

Coaching Club
The Coaching Club holding a meeting at Hyde Park. Date: 1932

Background imageHand Collection: Vivian McGrath

Vivian McGrath
Australian tennis player Vivian Viv McGrath (1916-1978), here aged sixteen. He was famous for his two-handed backhand. Date: 1932

Background imageHand Collection: Noted Breviary (Incunable Fragment)

Noted Breviary (Incunable Fragment)
Fragment of a leaf from an incunable breviary, parchment. Includes printed 4-line staves but the musical notation has not been added

Background imageHand Collection: Justinian Institutiones (Fragment)

Justinian Institutiones (Fragment)
Leaf from a copy of Justinian's Institutiones, parchment. Main body text in two columns in black in a protogothic hand with alternating red and blue decorated initials and red

Background imageHand Collection: Sacramentary (Fragment)

Sacramentary (Fragment)
Leaf from a liturgical text, possibly a sacramentary, parchment. The text contains various prayers and instructions. Text in black in a single column in a Caroline minuscule hand with red capitals

Background imageHand Collection: Preface to Martial's Epigrammata by Merula

Preface to Martial's Epigrammata by Merula
Two attached folios, paper, probably the endpaper and first leaf of a volume. Folio 1, which would have been the endpaper

Background imageHand Collection: Table of Moveable Feasts and De Partibus Orationis

Table of Moveable Feasts and De Partibus Orationis
Two leaves, one large and one small, both paper. The larger leaf is a Tabula des festes mobilibus (table of moveable feasts) and the smaller leaf is an explanatory note in the same hand

Background imageHand Collection: Euripides Medea (Fragment)

Euripides Medea (Fragment)
Minute fragment from Euripides Medea, v.1057-1062, parchment. From a codex, main body text in brown in a rounded unical hand

Background imageHand Collection: Justinian Digesta, Books V and VI (Fragment)

Justinian Digesta, Books V and VI (Fragment)
Bifolium from a copy of Justinian's Pandects, or Digesta Justiniani Augusti, parchment. Containing part of the end of Book V (De Judiciis) and the beginning of Book VI (De Rei Vindicatione)

Background imageHand Collection: Gebetbuch (Fragment)

Gebetbuch (Fragment)
Five leaves from a prayer book (Gebetbuch) in Middle Dutch, parchment. Consists of one bifolium and three loose leaves, probably consecutive

Background imageHand Collection: Lotze Manuscript (Fragment)

Lotze Manuscript (Fragment)
Two manuscript leaves from Rudolph Hermann Lotze's Metaphysik, written and corrected in the same hand. Corrections are made in ink and red pencil. On paper

Background imageHand Collection: Charter (Fragment)

Charter (Fragment)
Fragment of a charter, parchment, apparently recording the sale of a house by (-) Wingartman and his wife in the neighbourhood of Trier in the year (13-)

Background imageHand Collection: Charter (Fragments)

Charter (Fragments)
Charter recording a mortgage for a house, cut into two pieces for use as book binding material. On parchment. Text in dark brown-black ink in a gothic cursive hand

Background imageHand Collection: Music cover, In a Little Second Hand Store

Music cover, In a Little Second Hand Store, words and music by Harry Pease, Dave Dreyer and Ed G Nelson Date: 1933

Background imageHand Collection: Making vegetable dishes etc by hand, Alfred Meakin

Making vegetable dishes etc by hand, Alfred Meakin
Making vegetable dishes etc by hand Date: 1913

Background imageHand Collection: Portrait of man in Polish costume, a pipe in hand, 1726

Portrait of man in Polish costume, a pipe in hand, 1726
Alexis Grimou (1678-1733). French painter. Portrait of man in Polish costume, a pipe in hand, 1726. Louvre Museum. Paris. France. Date: 2008

Background imageHand Collection: A Musician, 1500s, by Giovanni di Niccolo Mansueti

A Musician, 1500s, by Giovanni di Niccolo Mansueti
Giovanni di Niccolo Mansueti (ca.1465-1527). Italian painter. A Musician, 1500s. Portrait of a young man holding a musical score. National Museum of Fine Arts. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019

Background imageHand Collection: Armour. Gauntlet. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883

Armour. Gauntlet. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883
Armour. Gauntlet. Gloves of metal plates which protected the hand. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Background imageHand Collection: Three young princes, children of Ferdinand, duke of Parma

Three young princes, children of Ferdinand, duke of Parma
Giuseppe Baldrighi (1723-1803). Italian painter. Three young princes, the children of Ferdinand, duke of Parma, ca.1775-1776. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Background imageHand Collection: Manuel Roda y Arrieta (1706/1707-1782), 1765, by Batoni

Manuel Roda y Arrieta (1706/1707-1782), 1765, by Batoni
Manuel Roda y Arrieta (1706/1707-1782). Spanish politician. Founder of the History Academy. Portrait by Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), 1765. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain

Background imageHand Collection: Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760), 1745-1746, by Mengs

Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760), 1745-1746, by Mengs
Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760). French painter. Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), 1745-1746. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Background imageHand Collection: Equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VII (1784-1833)

Equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VII (1784-1833)
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833). King of Spain (1808-1833). Equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VII, 1808. Detail. By Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Background imageHand Collection: Self-portrait with a Palette by Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa

Self-portrait with a Palette by Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa
Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa (1857-1893). Polish painter. Self-portrait with a Palette, 1887. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Background imageHand Collection: Four-in-Hand, 1881, by Jozef Chelmonski (1849-1914). Detail

Four-in-Hand, 1881, by Jozef Chelmonski (1849-1914). Detail
Jozef Chelmonski (1849-1914). Polish painter. Four-in-Hand, 1881. Detail. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Background imageHand Collection: The Savior showing his sores. Gothic. Chapel of The Savior

The Savior showing his sores. Gothic. Chapel of The Savior
Gothic image of the Savior showing his sores. It dates from the 14th century and was Integrated in the 1532 polychrome stone altarpiece, work of Juan de Alava

Background imageHand Collection: Italy, Pompeii. Statue of Dancing Faun (copy)

Italy, Pompeii. Statue of Dancing Faun (copy)
Italy, Pompeii. House of the Faun. Dancing Faun. Impluvium in the Atrium. Copy (the original sculpture is preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Naples). Date: 2014

Background imageHand Collection: Beauty of Japan's Textiles

Beauty of Japan's Textiles - the young woman on the left, holding a battledore, is in formal New Year's Day dress. The one on the right is in a homongi, a costume suitable for paying visits

Background imageHand Collection: Idyll

Idyll
A bronze relief, showing a muscular man, lovingly embracing a woman with one hand, both of them are holding out their child, with their other hands. Date: circa 1924

Background imageHand Collection: The Curtain Illustration

The Curtain Illustration
An illustration in reference to a poem, written by Australian poet, Zora Bernice May Cross, showing a woman in a blue dress, hiding behind a stage curtain

Background imageHand Collection: George Washington Thomas Lambert

George Washington Thomas Lambert
A self portrait painting of Australian portrait artist, George Washington Thomas Lambert, A.R.A. 1873-1930, wearing a bathrobe, while nonchalantly waving his hand. Date: circa 1923

Background imageHand Collection: The Daughter of the House

The Daughter of the House
A portrait painting showing a comfortable looking girl, wearing a blue neck garment, holding some fruit in her right hand, while reading a book. A pink bird resides in the cage next to he. Date: 1879

Background imageHand Collection: Sydney as Macquarie Left It

Sydney as Macquarie Left It
This panorama was taken from the Observatory Hill. To the left one is looking towards the Heads and to the right over the City

Background imageHand Collection: Sydney as Macquarie Found It

Sydney as Macquarie Found It
A painting depiction of Sydney, circa 1809, as Governor Lachlan Macquarie found it. On the left hand side is Government House and its garden

Background imageHand Collection: Local Attractions

Local Attractions
Lithograph showing tro men glancing at a hooded woman, carrying baskets in each hand, possibly with malicious intent. Date: circa 1919

Background imageHand Collection: Portrait Study of a Woman

Portrait Study of a Woman
A portrait oil painting study of a woman wearing an orange, floral designed robe with black belt, her left hand is placed on her hip. Date: circa 1890

Background imageHand Collection: Yellow and Red

Yellow and Red
Portrait oil painting of a brown haired lady resting her chin on her hand, wearing a yellow and red top. Date: circa 1930

Background imageHand Collection: Adventure

Adventure
Painting showing a blindfolded man wielding a sword overhead with one hand, and feeling the point of the blade with the other, under a dark night sky. Date: circa 1929

Background imageHand Collection: Portrait of Albert Buhrer

Portrait of Albert Buhrer
A portrait of Albert Buhrer, who is in a relaxed pose with cigarette in hand. Date: circa 1929

Background imageHand Collection: Advert for Larola - For Face and Hands

Advert for Larola - For Face and Hands - bottle being held up by an ARP (Air Raid Precautions) Girl Date: 1940

Background imageHand Collection: Viscountess St Davids

Viscountess St Davids
Doreen Jowett became Viscountess St Davids when she married Jestyn Philipps, 2nd Viscount St Davids in 1938. Date: 1939

Background imageHand Collection: Advertisement for State Express Cigarettes, number 555, by Barribal

Advertisement for State Express Cigarettes, number 555, by Barribal. Showing elegant woman in blue jacket. Captioned, Unapproachable'

Background imageHand Collection: Jane Hading, actress, theatrical illustration in role, in dark clothes with hand gun

Jane Hading, actress, theatrical illustration in role, in dark clothes with hand gun. Captioned in the illustration, Madame Jane Hading as Jacqueline in Madame X, in a section, The Hippodrome'



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