A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture but in England models would

but in England models would have been 'blacked up' to produce these 'humorous' cards

The well carved pair of mid-nineteenth century opposing stone gate pier carvings

Prisons were very dirty and extremely overcrowded

their large dining and smoking rooms

possibly a finial from a ship

A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture but in England models wouldOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Height: 21Width: 17The bust length portrait of a contemplative and pensive gentleman in his older years, wearing a skull cap, and with his hand resting to his face, the whole on swirling dark ground, painted in oils on canvas and remaining unframed and unrestored and surviving from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The picture remains in original though unrestored condition