Numeral Collection

Leo Belgicus, showing the Low Countries in the shape of a lion
985836 Leo Belgicus, showing the Low Countries in the shape of a lion, 1586 (hand-coloured engraving) by Austrian School, (16th century); 36.8x44.4 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Leo Belgicus)

Block Letters (litho)
6002062 Block Letters (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Block Letters. Illustration for Lettering for Schools and Colleges for the Office)

Orsay Clock, Paris. Creator: Tom Artin
Orsay Clock, Paris

Babylonian cuneiform numerals. Key to the clay-pressed Cuneiform numerals used in the later Babylonian period (2000BC to 75AD)

Egyptian and Assyrian counting systems. Early methods of number counting involved the use of fingers, while early written records used strokes to indicate numbers

Do You Know: Which is the only regiment to wear two cap badges? (colour litho)
8668142 Do You Know: Which is the only regiment to wear two cap badges? (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

" La smorfia ": chart illustrating the associations of numbers 5, 6, 7 and 8 has some objects revered
FGL5464839 " La smorfia ": chart illustrating the associations of numbers 5, 6, 7 and 8 has some objects revered, in order to play the lottery numbers

Calculating machine by Mr Thomas de Colmar, Paris (engraving)
8634944 Calculating machine by Mr Thomas de Colmar, Paris (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Calculating machine by Mr Thomas de Colmar, Paris)

Counting the Hands cut from the Dead (litho)
8661089 Counting the Hands cut from the Dead (litho) by Dudley, Robert Ambrose (1867-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Counting the Hands cut from the Dead)

Signature of novelist James Fenimore Cooper
3501409 Signature of novelist James Fenimore Cooper; (add.info.: Signature of James Fenimore Cooper 1789 to 1851. American novelist of frontier tales).

A devil type figure, 1850
3478691 A devil type figure, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a devil type figure. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Bronze figure of the God Neptune
3330158 Bronze figure of the God Neptune; (add.info.: Bronze figure of the God Neptune, he god of freshwater and the sea in the Roman religion. Dated 1st Century BC.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Anthropomorphic figure
3499722 Anthropomorphic figure; (add.info.: Anthropomorphic figure. Votive use. Punic. Terracotta. VI-IV Centuries b.C. Illa Plan (Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain).); PHAS/UIG.

Cs Rolls competing in the Gordon Bennett Cup Eliminating Trials, 1905 (b/w photo)
8626536 Cs Rolls competing in the Gordon Bennett Cup Eliminating Trials, 1905 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Arabic numerals presented by four young children, 1908 (photo)
8713245 Arabic numerals presented by four young children, 1908 (photo); 31,5 x 25 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: in "To learn to read by Henri Manuel)

Precolumbian Art
3499698 Precolumbian Art; (add.info.: Precolumbian Art. Phase Chorrera Culture (1500 BC-500 BC). Ceramic figure. From the province of Guayas. Mother with a child in her lap.); PHAS/UIG.

John of Austria (the Younger), after an etching in Retratos de Los Espanoles Ilustres, Madrid, Spain, pub. 1791
3473254 John of Austria (the Younger), after an etching in Retratos de Los Espanoles Ilustres, Madrid, Spain, pub. 1791; (add.info.: John of Austria (the Younger), 1629 - 1679

Margaret of Anjou's Meeting with a Hexham Robber, 1464 (litho)
8661393 Margaret of Anjou's Meeting with a Hexham Robber, 1464 (litho) by Symons, William Christian (1845-1911); Private Collection; (add.info)

Yole and Zouave and the figures, 1908 (photo)
8713246 Yole and Zouave and the figures, 1908 (photo); 31,5 x 25 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: in "To learn to read by Henri Manuel, published by the Librairie Felix Juven, Paris, 1908)

Pedro Fernandez de Velasco, 2nd Count of Haro, after an etching in Retratos de Los Espanoles Ilustres, Madrid, Spain
3473312 Pedro Fernandez de Velasco, 2nd Count of Haro, after an etching in Retratos de Los Espanoles Ilustres, Madrid, Spain, pub. 1791; (add.info.: Pedro Fernandez de Velasco, 2nd Count of Haro, c)

How Chinese Manikins on the Walls saved a Town (litho)
8661072 How Chinese Manikins on the Walls saved a Town (litho) by Wright, Henry Charles Seppings (1850-1937); Private Collection; (add.info.: How Chinese Manikins on the Walls saved a Town)

Edison's electro-motograph, 1879 (engraving)
3480021 Edison's electro-motograph, 1879 (engraving); (add.info.: Edison's electro-motograph. Mr Thomas A. Edison; the inventor of the electro-motograph; states that he has a machine in)

The figure of Antichrist
3479443 The figure of Antichrist; (add.info.: The figure of Antichrist as conceived by Lucas Cranach. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), Nuremberg

A figure of the Antichrist, 1521 (engraving)
3331100 A figure of the Antichrist, 1521 (engraving); (add.info.: Engraving depicting a figure of the Antichrist by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)

Alphabet: lowercase letters
DUV4217074 Alphabet: lowercase letters; 31x24 cm; (add.info.: I can read (Methodic and fun alphabet by a dad) - abecedary comprising a reading method and an illustrious alphabet

Young woman decorating the number 13 with flowers (coloured photo)
8655997 Young woman decorating the number 13 with flowers (coloured photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: It will bring you happiness)

Competitor in an early motor car race, 1894 (b/w photo)
8672182 Competitor in an early motor car race, 1894 (b/w photo) by European Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Competitor in an early motor car race, 1894)

Popular Superstitions: Thirteen at table (colour litho)
8668720 Popular Superstitions: Thirteen at table (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Thirteen at table)

A rare early 20th-century life preserver, worn by Mabel Francatelli as she escaped from R.M.S
1766609 A rare early 20th-century life preserver, worn by Mabel Francatelli as she escaped from R.M.S. Titanic and autographed by her and fellow survivors from lifeboat No. 1

Louis XII (1462-1515)
3499759 Louis XII (1462-1515); (add.info.: Louis XII (1462-1515). King of France. Book of Hours of Caherles VIII of France (1483-1498). Fol. 13 v

Capital letters Plate in "Picturesque alphabet or New informative and picturesque alphabet", 1892 (engraving)
DUV4220120 Capital letters Plate in "Picturesque alphabet or New informative and picturesque alphabet", 1892 (engraving); 27x17.5 cm; (add.info)

Building the Church of Saint Mary in Lalibela, Ethiopia (illuminated manuscript)
3849873 Building the Church of Saint Mary in Lalibela, Ethiopia (illuminated manuscript); (add.info.: Illuminated manuscript)

Embroidered handkerchiefs, mid 19th century
BAL1377 Embroidered handkerchiefs, mid 19th century; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.

A Fisherman's Wife, 1653. Creator: Gerrit Dou
A Fisherman's Wife, 1653

Musme, 1896 June 11. Creator: Johns Johnston
Musme, 1896 June 11

Shelf Clock, 1936. Creator: Alvin M Gully
Shelf Clock, 1936

Film Poster Representing Two Armored Cars, 1928 (poster)
FIA5402860 Film Poster Representing Two Armored Cars, 1928 (poster) by Russian School (20th century); Russian State Library, Moscow

Clock and Hercules, Mercury and Minerva sculptures, Grand Central Terminal Railway
USA, New York City, Manhattan, Clock and Hercules, Mercury and Minerva sculptures, Grand Central Terminal Railway Station

Collection of Numbers, Designs and Letters Seen by Me at the Beginning of the War in Berlin, Military in Nature, c
7355584 Collection of Numbers, Designs and Letters Seen by Me at the Beginning of the War in Berlin, Military in Nature, c.1915 (oil on canvas) by Hartley

Sun Dial, c. 1937. Creator: William Kerby
Sun Dial, c. 1937

Mantle Clock, c. 1937. Creator: Lon Cronk
Mantle Clock, c. 1937

A Soviet propaganda porcelain plate from the period of Alexander III, 1892; 1921 (porcelain)
1195767 A Soviet propaganda porcelain plate from the period of Alexander III, 1892; 1921 (porcelain) by Adamovich, Mikhail (1884-1947) (after); 24.1 (diam) cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Maison de the numero 5. Composition. (Tea House No 5. Composition). Peinture de Alexei Alexeyevich Morgunov (Morgounov)
FIA5335719 Maison de the numero 5. Composition. (Tea House No 5. Composition). Peinture de Alexei Alexeyevich Morgunov (Morgounov) (1884-1935), huile sur toile, 1916-1917

Minute repeating full calendar keyless lever watch with moon phases in hunter case, c. 1900 (18k gold case)
5906700 Minute repeating full calendar keyless lever watch with moon phases in hunter case, c.1900 (18k gold case) by Pouldjian

Master of the Vitae Imperatorum: The Trinity, miniature from an illuminated choirbook on vellum, c
986269 Master of the Vitae Imperatorum: The Trinity, miniature from an illuminated choirbook on vellum, c.1440 (paint and burnished gold on vellum) by Italian School

Aeneas and the Sibyl of Caumae, 1874-c. 1919 (w / c on vellum)
1195394 Aeneas and the Sibyl of Caumae, 1874-c.1919 (w/c on vellum) by English School, (19th century); 33.5x24 cm; Private Collection; Photo © Christies Images

Game of "Odd and Even"(engraving)
7193920 Game of " Odd and Even" (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Game of " Odd)

Biscuits (colour litho)
7150688 Biscuits (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Biscuits. Illustration from The Sugar Plum House that Jack Built (Ernest Nister, London)

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"Exploring the Rich History of Numerals: From Ancient Egypt to Modern Europe" Step back in time and discover the fascinating world of numerals. Journey through ancient civilizations like Egyptian and Assyrian, where counting systems laid the foundation for numerical representation. Marvel at Babylonian cuneiform numerals, intricate symbols etched into clay tablets that unlocked mathematical possibilities. In Prague's Old Town Square, be captivated by an astronomical clock adorning the Town Hall. This masterpiece not only tells time but also showcases zodiac signs and medieval figures, a testament to human ingenuity across centuries. Transport yourself to 1890 with an advert for Waterbury pocket watches, highlighting how numerals became essential tools in everyday life. Witness Milan's ornate clock adorned with statues, embodying Italy's artistic prowess combined with functional precision. Delve into history as you admire gold Etruscan jewelry from different eras—400-350 BC and 350-300 BC—where numbers seamlessly merge with exquisite designs. Explore Berlin during World War I through "Collection of Numbers, Designs and Letters Seen by Me, " a poignant artwork reflecting military influence on society. Grand Central Terminal Railway unveils a blend of artistry and functionality with its clock featuring sculptures of Hercules, Mercury, and Minerva—an ode to Roman mythology intertwined with precise timekeeping. Marvel at William Kerby's sun dial from 1937—a timeless creation that harnesses celestial movements to mark hours under open skies. Contrastingly, witness Lon Cronk's mantle clock from the same era—a symbol of modernity blending aesthetics and practicality within our homes. Lastly, confront societal struggles depicted in "The white slave market in New York. " This color lithograph portrays unemployed individuals selling themselves charmingly due to hunger—an unfortunate reminder that even numbers cannot always alleviate human suffering.