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The Birmingham pen trade evolved in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and its surrounding area in the 19th century. "Pen" is the old term for what is now generally referred to as a nib, and for over a century the city was the world's leading manufacturer of steel nibs for dip pens , also making nibs in brass, bronze, and other alloys.
The penny knife was a originally a simple 18th century utility knife with a fixed blade. It got the name penny knife because it cost 1 penny in England and America towards the end of the 18th century. [1] The famous Fuller's Penny Knife helped gain the reputation of Sheffield, England, cutlers in the pre-industrial era of the early 18th century ...
Landmark environmental portraiture and iconography of the Industrial Revolution and 19th century. [s 1] Two Ways of Life: 1857 Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Wolverhampton, England [22] [s 1] La Vallée de l'Huisne (River Scene) 1857 Camille Silvy: Nogent-le-Rotrou, France [s 1] Fading Away: 1858 Henry Peach Robinson: Warwickshire, England, United ...
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Pages in category "19th-century weapons"
The oblique dip pen was designed for writing the pointed pen styles of the mid 19th to the early 20th century such as Spencerian Script, although oblique pen holders can be used for earlier styles of pointed penmanship such as the copperplate scripts of the 18th and 19th centuries. As the name suggests, the nib holder holds the nib at an ...
Nineteenth-century line engraving, compared with previous work, had a more thorough and delicate rendering of local color, light and shade, and texture. Older engravers could draw just as correctly, but they either neglected these elements or admitted them sparingly, as opposed to the spirit of their art, but there is a certain sameness in pure ...
Waterman was born in Decatur, New York on November 20, 1836. [4] [5] His father was a wagon maker who died when Lewis was three.The boy grew up on his stepfather's farm, attending the district school until he was fifteen, then attending the seminary at Charlotteville, New York for some three months.
[25] During the Civil War, slave pens were used by the Union Army to imprison Confederate soldiers. For instance, slave pens were used for this purpose in St. Louis, Missouri and Alexandria, Virginia. [25] In Natchez, Mississippi, the Forks of the Road slave market was used by the Union soldiers to offer the formerly enslaved protection and ...