Rice Gallery

David Rice Atchison

DAVID RICE ATCHISON American judge and senator, who by virtue of Zachary Polk's refusal to be inaugur- -ated on the Sabbath, was nominally President for a day

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1807, 1886, American, Atchison, Ated, David, Historical, History, Inaugur, Judge, Nominally, Polks, President, Refusal, Rice, Sabbath, Senator, Virtue, Who, Zachary

Curry&rice/Theatricals

Amateur theatricals on a British station - preparing for a performance by lacing up corsets, applying make-up etc

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1860, Abroad, Amateur, Applying, British, Corsets, Curry, Historical, History, India, Lacing, Make, Performance, Preparing, Rice, Station, Theatricals, Travel

Chinese paper making, QIng Dynasty

Chinese paper making: young bamboo shoots are stripped of their bark, beaten and soaked in river water for a fortnight. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824. Date:

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