Collection Highlights
Illustrations of cholera asphyxia in its different stages. Selected from cases treated at the Cholera Hospital, Rivington Street
Date:
1832
Object Number:
LIB.Y1832.Bart.Cholera
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"Are you Ready?"
Object Number:
INV.777
Date:
ca. 1880
Medium:
Silk, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. ( 13.7 x 20.6 cm )
Marks:
printed: on obverse beneath picture: "WOVEN IN SILK BY THOMAS STEVENS, INVENTOR AND MANUFACTURER, COVENTRY AND LONDON. (REGISTERED.) / Are you Ready?"
printed: on reverse, across bottom: "THOMAS STEVENS, Sole Inventor and Manufacturer, / STEVENGRAPH WO
Description:
Horizontal rectangular woven picture, or Stevengraph, in various colors silk with cardboard matting; image of two sculls being rowed down river with several boats in background.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
