Verso Collection

Madonna Child Infant Saint John Baptist upper left
Artokoloro

Miniature silhouette - Captain Alfred Arnold Ernest Gyde
Miniature bust-length silhouette in ebonised frame of Captain Alfred Arnold Ernest Gyde, 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment. He is in Mess Dress uniform

Lotus flower [Nelumbo speciosum] in full bloom. Mantova / Mantua, Italy
Lotus flower [Nelumbo speciosum] in full bloom. Mantova/Mantua, Italy

Scrolling Floral Vines, 1755. Creator: Fayzullah (Indian, active c. 1730-1765)
Scrolling Floral Vines, 1755

Prince on Horseback Offering Wine to a Youth, c.1600 (watercolor, ink, gold on paper)
8901168 Prince on Horseback Offering Wine to a Youth, c.1600 (watercolor, ink, gold on paper) by Husayni, Mir Ali Al (fl.c.1531-32); 42.5 x 26.6 cm; National Museum of Asian Art

Calligraphy, 1546-47 (bodycolour & gold on paper)
8835560 Calligraphy, 1546-47 (bodycolour & gold on paper) by Bukhara School, (16th century); 19.1 x 10.7 cm; Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Rocaille-boning with a shell, volutes and flowers, c.1750. Creator: Anon
Rocaille-boning with a shell, volutes and flowers, c.1750. Hanging rocaille ornament of volutes with flowers

Persian ruba‘i (quatrain) by Maulana Mu?ammad Murshidi Zawara i... c
Persian ruba i (quatrain) by Maulana Mu?ammad Murshidi Zawara i (Persian, late 1500s-early 1600s), c. 1610-1620

Photograph of the steam locomotive Lord Faringdon 1169, fitted with the Robinson superheater. Signed Mr G Robinson, with specifications for the locomotive on the verso. Date: circa 1880s

A Piece of Eight, dated 1714 (silver) (b / w photo)
PNP268179 A Piece of Eight, dated 1714 (silver) (b/w photo) by Spanish School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Slight ink scribbles, possibly a drapery study? (verso)
5938286 Slight ink scribbles, possibly a drapery study? (verso), eighteenth century (red chalk on paper) [see 5938219] by Solimena, Francesco (1657-1747); 29x20.5 cm; Fitzwilliam Museum

Martha Hess as Silence (recto), (pencil and white chalk on buff paper)
824148 Martha Hess as Silence (recto), (pencil and white chalk on buff paper) by Fuseli, Henry (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825); 54.5x33 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

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

Legal Text? (Fragment)
Two fragments from the same manuscript, parchment. Original text unknown. Text is in a cursive documentary script in brown in a single column recto and verso on both fragments

Justinian's Codex, Book V. XIII (Fragment)
Single folio, parchment, from Justinian's Codex. The text on this leaf is from Book V.XIII Dei Uxoriae Actione 1.1.a. Main body text and marginal gloss with additional minute gloss on verso

Justinian's Codex, Book IIII. XX (Fragment)
Single folio, parchment, from Justinian's Codex. The text on this folio is taken from Book IIII.XX De Testibus 20. Comprised of a main body text and a marginal gloss with additional minute gloss

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

List?
Single folio, paper, with numbered paragraphs on the recto, possibly an itemised list. Blank on the verso. Text in a German cursive in brown ink, no line rulings. Date: 15th Century

Financial Records?
Manuscript records on paper, possibly financial or legal records. Probably originally pages from a volume or volumes, they have been cut into regularly sized rectangles

Unidentified Fragment
Fragment of a leaf of a manuscript, parchment. Text in Middle German(?). The text block has wide margins above, beneath and to the left-hand side but the leaf has been cut down the right-hand side

John Gower, Confessio Amantis (Fragments)
Four leaves (2 bifolia) from an illuminated manuscript copy of Gower's Confessio Amantis, parchment. The text is the B version and is part of Book V

Roma: Panorama dal Colosseo verso il Palatino (b / w photo)
6017641 Roma: Panorama dal Colosseo verso il Palatino (b/w photo) by Hielscher, Kurt (1881-1948); Private Collection; (add.info.: Panorama dal Colosseo verso il Palatino)

St Roch and St Sebastian; above, The Annunciation (verso), before 1544 (egg tempera with gold and oil glazes on panel)
5938234 St Roch and St Sebastian; above, The Annunciation (verso), before 1544 (egg tempera with gold and oil glazes on panel) [see 5938150] by Civerchio, Vincenzo (c.1468-1544) (attrib)

Roma: Foro Romano verso il Palatino (b / w photo)
6017628 Roma: Foro Romano verso il Palatino (b/w photo) by Hielscher, Kurt (1881-1948); Private Collection; (add.info.: Foro Romano verso il Palatino)

Roma: Foro Romano verso il Campidoglio (b / w photo)
6017622 Roma: Foro Romano verso il Campidoglio (b/w photo) by Hielscher, Kurt (1881-1948); Private Collection; (add.info.: Foro Romano verso il Campidoglio)

Angel, flying, with cup and wine flask (Ink, color wash and gold on paper)
7215198 Angel, flying, with cup and wine flask (Ink, color wash and gold on paper) by Ottoman School, (16th century); 18 x 13.5 cm; Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution

Four men of different ages (verso) and illuminated manuscript with verses from
1195378 Four men of different ages (verso) and illuminated manuscript with verses from The Human Seasons (recto), within decorative borders, 1912-1914 (paint)

Medal of Edgar Quinet (bronze)
1200150 Medal of Edgar Quinet (bronze) by Ponscarme, Hubert (1827-1903); Private Collection; (add.info.: Edgar Quinet (1803-75) was a French historian and intellectual.); French, out of copyright

Verso of a bust of a girl, c. 1850 (pen & ink and print on paper) (see 876003)
876004 Verso of a bust of a girl, c.1850 (pen & ink and print on paper) (see 876003) by Lucas, Richard Cockle (1800-83); 35x31.5x11 cm; Leeds Museums and Art Galleries (Leeds City Museum)

Dublin Philharmonic Society Badge inscribed James Murray, 1784 (metal)
2959944 Dublin Philharmonic Society Badge inscribed James Murray, 1784 (metal) by Irish School, (18th century); Timothy Millett Collection; Irish, out of copyright

Hetton Colliery Railway locomotive. Verso stamped John R Moore, photographer, 48 Crowtree Road, Sunderland. Inscribed in pencil H Stephens, Quay. Date: circa 1901

Atlantic type compound locomotive, 4-4-2 engine, side elevation. Stamped verso H Wasteels, Bruxelles, 13 Juil 1905. Date: 1905

Locomotive no 213, 4-6-0. Inscribed verso One of the new 6-coupled passenger express engines built at Glasgow decorated for the tour of HRH the Prince & Princess on the GIP. Electric headlight

Class 860 steam locomotive by Richard Francis Trevithick. The first locomotive built in Japan, side view. Stamped versos Ichida, Kobe. Date: 1893

Unidentified locomotive no 11257, side elevation. By J Gabriel, possibly for EB Wilson. Inscribed similar to Jenny Lind (by EB Wilson, 1848) except fluting of dome omitted, whistle omitted

The second miraculous sin: the apparition of Christ to the apostles on Lake Tiberiad
LRI4571923 The second miraculous sin: the apparition of Christ to the apostles on Lake Tiberiad, 1308 (tempera on panel) by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Woman with the harvest basket (verso) and illuminated manuscript with verses from
1195377 Woman with the harvest basket (verso) and illuminated manuscript with verses from To Autumn (recto), and decorative borders, 1912-1914 (paint, ink and gold-leaf on vellum) by English School

Drawing on back of the paper (verso), before 1747 (graphite on paper) [see 5938251]
5938282 Drawing on back of the paper (verso), before 1747 (graphite on paper) [see 5938251] by Solimena, Francesco (1657-1747); 23.4x23.3 cm; Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Libbys Happy Families Card Game Rules, paper bag verso. circa 1950s

Verso of Man Smoking a Pipe: Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890 (etching on laid paper)
877203 Verso of Man Smoking a Pipe: Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890 (etching on laid paper) by Gogh, Vincent van (1853-90); 18.1x15 cm; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Head of a Woman, 1886 (pastel on paper)
MMT216604 Head of a Woman, 1886 (pastel on paper) by Morisot, Berthe (1841-95); 58x41 cm; Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France; French, out of copyright

Pencil Sketch of Unidentifiable Object, for the Cave of the Golden Calf (graphite
XYC265068 Pencil Sketch of Unidentifiable Object, for the Cave of the Golden Calf (graphite) (see 265067 for recto) by Gore, Spencer Frederick (1878-1914); Yale Center for British Art

Medal commemorating the Foundation of Les Invalides by Louis XIV
CHT271784 Medal commemorating the Foundation of Les Invalides by Louis XIV, late seventeenth century (bronze) by French School, (17th century); Musee d Histoire de la Medecine, Paris

Portrait of a wife, late 18th century (wax)
2959929 Portrait of a wife, late 18th century (wax) by German School, (18th century); Timothy Millett Collection; (add.info.: One of a pair, probably Prussian.); German, out of copyright

Whole-length Study of a small boy with faint studies of his face
1076628 Whole-length Study of a small boy with faint studies of his face and his left leg seen from the back, 1852 (pencil with pen & ink on paper) by Pissarro

Portrait of a husband, late 18th century (wax)
2959928 Portrait of a husband, late 18th century (wax) by German School, (18th century); Timothy Millett Collection; (add.info.: One of a pair, probably Prussian.); German, out of copyright

Memorial to William Cobbett by J. Baddeley, 1835 (bronze)
2959926 Memorial to William Cobbett by J. Baddeley, 1835 (bronze) by Rouw, Peter (1771-1852) (after); Timothy Millett Collection; (add.info.: Bust of William Cobbett (9 March 1763 - 18 June 1835)

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"Unveiling the Enigmatic Verso: A Glimpse into Art, Literature, and History" Step into a world where artistry intertwines with history, as we explore the captivating realm of "verso. " In this enigmatic journey, we encounter an array of intriguing elements that unlock tales from centuries past. At first glance, our eyes are drawn to the Madonna and Child, accompanied by Saint John the Baptist in the upper left corner. This delicate portrayal evokes a sense of divine serenity and maternal love. Adjacent to it lies a miniature silhouette of Captain Alfred Arnold Ernest Gyde—a mysterious figure whose story remains shrouded in secrecy. As we delve deeper into this mesmerizing collection, our gaze is captured by a lotus flower in full bloom—an emblem of purity and enlightenment. Its presence transports us to Mantova (Mantua), Italy—a place where beauty flourishes amidst historical grandeur. Scrolling floral vines gracefully dance across another fragmentary piece created by Fayzullah—an Indian artist who left his mark on 18th-century art. The intricate details speak volumes about his mastery and dedication to his craft. Amongst these artistic treasures lies an intriguing preface to Martial's Epigrammata written by Merula—an invitation into ancient Roman wit and satire. As if whispering secrets from distant times, this literary gem offers glimpses into society's humor during that era. A legal text emerges from fragments—its purpose once integral within judicial proceedings now reduced to mere remnants. Justinian's Codex appears before us like scattered puzzle pieces; Book V. XIII tantalizes with its hidden wisdom while Book IIII. XX teases us with its elusive contents. From literature to law, even Euripides' Medea makes her presence felt through fragmented lines—a haunting reminder of her tragic tale that continues to captivate audiences today. Amidst these fragments lie lists—perhaps inventories or records of a bygone era.