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Standbeeld van een faun met cymbalen
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1671 – 1671
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Artist: claude mellan
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1598 – 1688
Subjects: satyrs, fauns, sileni, piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Prent gebruikt voor: Félibien, André. Tableaux du Cabinet du roy. Statues et bustes antiques des maisons royales. Parijs: Imprimerie Royale, 1677. Het boek bevat 61 prenten van beelden en bustes uit Franse koninklijke collectie. Mellan vervaardigde in totaal achttien platen (zie ook British Museum, inv.nr. 1874,0808.1488).
De verblijfplaats van het beeld is onbekend.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, part of meander; Exterior, lower drapery and foot of male to right
L'Apparition de S. Michel, archange (The Apparition of St. Michael, Archangel), May 8th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)
Object type: print
Date: 1636 – 1636
Techniques: etching
Artist: jacques callot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1592 – 1635
Subjects: men,angels,saints

This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.
Practical Sketchbook (Ōyō manga) 応用漫画
Object type: illustrated book
Date: 1903 – 1903
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: ogino issui 荻野一水
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1900 – 1910
Subjects: flowers
Compositie met gevelsteen 'De Blaauwe brugh over den Amstel'
Object type: drawing
Date: 1750 – 1850
Materials: paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: commemoration, jubilee, bridge in city across river, canal, etc.
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘de*blaauw*brugh*over*den*amstel’, number: ‘158’, inscription: ‘Afbeelding van een (...) der 17e eeuw.’

Tekening binnen de Atlas Van Eck ingedeeld op wijknummer 7.
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: metal thread, silk
Culture: chinese
Subjects: dragons
Filips V, koning van Spanje, hertog van Bourgondie en Brabant
Object type: new year medal
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: antwerp
Artist: philippe roëttiers (ii)
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates: 1640 – 1718
Subjects: filips v (koning van spanje)

Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: borststuk man binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: gekroond wapenschild, omhangen met de orde van het Gulden Vlies en de orde van de Heilige Geest binnen omschrift
Twee vrouwen die netten boeten, te Katwijk aan Zee
Object type: print
Date: 1899 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint
Artist: jan toorop
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1858 – 1928
Subjects: mending of fishing nets
Inscriptions: dedication: ‘Aan Wiggers/ 1910’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Reinaert de vos
Object type: print
Date: 1665 – 1675
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: allaert van everdingen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1621 – 1675
Subjects: fable of reynard the fox

Isengrijn de wolf, met beide voorpoten vast in een touw, wordt omringd door een boze menigte. Naast hem, in de schaduw, staat Reinaert de vos.
Affiche voor de Exposition Hollandaise te Parijs, 1921
Object type: poster
Date: 1921 – 1921
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Artist: willy sluiter
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1873 – 1949
Subjects: exhibition ~ art, historical persons not known by name
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tentoonstelling voor Nederlandse kunst, in april en mei 1921 gehouden in het Jeu de Paume gebouw in de Jardin des Tuileries.
Brief aan Mien Cambier van Nooten
Object type: letter
Date: 1940 – 1940
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: bennekom
Artist: dick ket
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1902 – 1940
Subjects: the hague, arnhem, mien cambier van nooten, amsterdam, paris, wim oepts, print maker, kasper niehaus, draughtsman, johan mekkink, chris huidekooper, passions, emotions, affections, music, painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting), exhibition ~ art, diseases, historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)
Portret van een onbekende vrouw met twee baby's
Object type: photograph
Date: 1877 – 1886
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: edam
Subjects: anonymous historical person portrayed, mother and child(ren), woman and child(ren) (family group)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘P. Siewers en Zoon. Edam.’, inscription: ‘P. Siewers en Zoon/ Photogr./ Atelier/ Edam Voorhaven/ Hilversum Badhuis./ Te Edam dagelyks werkzaam./ Te Hilversum Zondags en maandags./ De Plaat wordt voor Nabestelling/ bewaard.’
Man met plooikraag bij een boerenpaar
Object type: print
Date: 1846 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: haarlem
Subjects: quack, charlatan, mountebank, 'saltimbanco', farmers

De man met de plooikraag is mogelijk een kwakzalver. De vrouw draagt een huik. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Jar
Object type: jar
Date: 1301 – 1400
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Location: iran
Brief aan Carel Vosmaer
Object type: letter
Date: 1881 – 1888
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: london
Artist: lourens alma tadema
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1836 – 1912
Subjects: the hague, carel vosmaer
Inscriptions: watermark
De Notenkraker, 16 november 1907 / Oost-Indisch blind
Object type: magazine
Date: 1907 – 1907
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Artist: albert hahn (i)
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1877 – 1918
Subjects: colonial government, massacre ~ war, political caricatures and satires, netherlands, dutch east indies, the

Aflevering van het satirische tijdschrift De Notenkraker van 16 november 1907, eerste jaargang, nummer 46. Omslag met illustratie van minister van koloniën Dirk Fock staande op een berg van lichamen van vermoorde inwoners van Atjeh, tijdens de Atjehoorlog. Onderdeel van een volledige eerste jaargang (1907). Elk nummer bevat 8 bladzijden, deels nog niet losgesneden, met op de voorzijde steeds een spotprent van Albert Hahn, op de overige pagina's prenten van Hahn steeds tussen de tekst. In de letter 'D' van de titel is een kop van een zgn. notenkraker afgebeeld.
Li Kui (Kokusenpu Riki, ichimei Ritetsugyu), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)"
Object type: print
Date: 1827 – 1827
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa kuniyoshi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1861
Dagger (Katar) with Sheath
Object type: dagger with sheath
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silver, steel, velvet, wood
Culture: north indian
Location: india
Kingfishers and Pussy-willow
Object type: woodblock print
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: surimono, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: kubo shunman
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1757 – 1820
Subjects: birds,trees
Service with different figures in a landscape
Object type: service set
Date: 1850 – 1899
Materials: glaze, gold, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, forming, gilding, turning, vitrification
Location: europe
Artist: Anonymous

Twaalf koppen en schotels van porselein. Koppen op hoge voet en met vraagtekenvormig oor. Op voet en langs mond- en schotelrand een brede gouden bies, het oor verguld; midden op de schotels een gouden cirkel. Eén schotel is groter en heeft twee gouden cirkels o het plat en een smalle gouden bies langs de rand. De koppen versierd met een drukdecor in zwart, voorstellende spelende kinderen of volwassenen in een landschap. De koppen met inv.nrs. BK-1969-155-1,2,4 en 11 hebben eenzelfde decoratie. Slechts één schotel gemerkt: ingegrifte II (inv.nr. BK-1969-155-24).
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 480
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, part of head, right ear, eye, shoulder, and upper torso of youth to right
Kosode
Object type: kosode
Date: 1615 – 1868
Culture: japanese
Mosque Lamp
Object type: mosque lamp
Date: 1301 – 1350
Materials: glass
Techniques: enamel
Location: egypt or syria
Rod Finial Clip with Foliate Designs
Object type: finial clip
Materials: gold
Culture: indonesian, javanese
Evening Glow at Motomura  [Two Englishmen looking at the sunset]
Object type: print
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: utagawa yoshitora
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1845 – 1880
Subjects: men,women,evening
Plate 80 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Diagram of City Center, Showing the Proposed Arrangement of Railroad Passenger Stations, the Complete Traction System, Including Rapid Transit, Subway, and Elevated Roads, and the Circuit Subway Line.
Object type: architectural drawing
Date: 1909 – 1909
Materials: ink, paint
Techniques: printing
Location: chicago
Artist: daniel hudson burnham
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1846 – 1912
Subjects: chicago, architecture
The Fair Store: Pilaster from the Exterior
Object type: architectural fragment
Location: chicago
Artist: william lebaron jenney
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1832 – 1907
Subjects: chicago
Ring: Amun-Ra, flanked by nb signs
Object type: costume and accessory
Materials: faience
Culture: egyptian
Location: egypt
Subjects: gods (deities)
Psyche met aan haar voeten Cerberus
Object type: print
Date: 1859 – 1859
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: psyche is sent into the underworld to fetch proserpina's casket of beauty
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit: Gazette des beaux-arts (1859), nr. 2, p. 202.
Rivier en waterval onder een hoge brug
Object type: print
Date: 1594 – 1635
Materials: paper
Techniques: brush, engraving, etching
Artist: guilliam van nieulandt (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1584 – 1635
Subjects: waterfall, landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760, inscription: ‘42’

Onder een hoge brug, waarop twee figuren staan, stroomt een waterval en rivier. Aan weerszijden staan en lopen figuren. Links in de diepte ligt een stad aan een rivier.
Sportende jongens
Object type: photograph
Date: 1950 – 1950
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: new york city
Artist: Anonymous
Eervol ontslag ontleend aan J.D.B. Wilkens als commandant van de 2e bataljon van de 1e Afdeling Mobiele Friese Schutterij, 6 februari 1839
Object type: letter
Date: 1839 – 1839
Materials: paper
Techniques: handwriting, letterpress printing, pen
Location: netherlands
Artist: directeur-generaal van oorlog
Artist role: official
Subjects: military service, netherlands
Inscriptions: number: ‘11198’

Onderdeel van een groep van documenten betreffende de staat van dienst, benoemingen, enz. van Luitenant Kolonel van de Infanterie J.D.B. Wilkens. Behorende bij de schenking van het geschilderde portret.
Bicorne officier Koninklijke Landmacht ca. 1830-1832
Object type: bicorne
Date: 1800 – 1850
Materials: copper, felt, gold, leather, paper, silk
Techniques: material, forming, pressing, printing, stitching, tanning, weave, writing
Location: the hague
Subjects: netherlands

Hoofddeksel (restant) van vergaan zwart vilt. Op bol leren draaglus, aan een zijden glad geel metalen knoop en restant van lis van gouddraad. Hieraan leren label met nr. 113. Binnenwerk: Naturel leren rand, met aan een zijden koord en op de bodem op Nederlands wapen: JE MAINTIENDRAI (bijna onleesbaar). Wit zijden voering op bodem goudstempel: Rijkswapen en W. Pauwels & zoon hofleveranciers van Z.M. de Koning 's Hage. Aan liszijde half etiket: J.H. Hoye... in 1830-1832 Majoor bij de generale.... los etiket: 's avonds van (?) den 21. october 1830 op het dek Z.M. Korvet Komeet, dag van het bombardement op den stad Antwerpen.
Entourages, XVIe Siècle
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1875 – 1880
Materials: paper
Techniques: photolithography
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: (story of) neptune (poseidon), (story of) mars (ares), decoration of printed matter, (story of) mercury (hermes)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘ENTOURAGES tirés du (...)’, inscription: ‘LITT. E. - PL. 7’, monogram: ‘JJvY’
Christ Seated Disputing with the Doctors
Object type: print
Date: 1654 – 1654
Techniques: etching
Artist: rembrandt van rijn
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1606 – 1669
Subjects: girls,men,christ,doctors
Sweden, from Flags of All Nations, Series 1 (N9) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Object type: print
Date: 1887 – 1887
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: flags

Trade cards from the set, "Flags of All Nations," Series 1 (N9), issued in 1887 in a series of 48 cards to promote Allen & Ginter Brand Cigarettes. The museum's collection contains the 48 cards from the Series 1 set, as well as 10 variations and 5 mis-printed cards.
Saucer with flower sprays in panels on a ground of red diaper pattern
Object type: kop en schotel, kop en schotel
Date: 1750 – 1774
Materials: cobalt, glaze, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, turning, vitrification
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous

Schotel van porselein met rechte wand, beschilderd in onderglazuur blauw en op het glazuur rood, roze, groen, paars en zwart. Op het plat van de schotel een cartouche in onderglazuur blauw met een bloemtak; de binnenwand met rood servetwerk met hierin uitgespaard vier kleinere cartouches met bloemtak. Een chip in de rand van de schotel. Famille rose.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 525 – 501
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of a foot; the top of the foot is glazed; the outer edge is concave and reserved; the underside of the foot has the toes of a male to right; part of a vertical post and the tail, calf and foot of a satyr to right?
The Flight into Egypt
Object type: print
Date: 1488 – 1491
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: martin schongauer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1430 – 1491

Martin Schongauer was one of the most prolific early engravers from the Rhine Valley. He signed all his prints with his initials, making him the first printmaker whose authorship was absolutely clear. While a handful of the artist’s paintings survive, Schongauer’s engravings inspired generations of artists, including Albrecht Dürer. This iconic image shows the Holy Family resting while fleeing the Massacre of the Innocents and their home in Israel for Egypt. The work reflects some traditional accounts of the story, in which angels lowered date palms for easy harvesting, so Mary, Joseph, and the Christ Child would not starve.
Twee zilverreigers in het riet
Object type: print
Date: 1900 – 1930
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: tokyo
Artist: ohara koson
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1877 – 1945
Subjects: shore-birds and wading-birds: heron, water course, plants and herbs: reed, night
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee zilverreigers, tussen riet, in laag water, bij nacht.
Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte - 1778
Object type: drawing
Date: 1778 – 1778
Materials: chalk, paper, pencil
Artist: louis mayer
Artist role: draughtsman
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Veduta del Sepolcro di Terone, fuori de l'Antico. Con il Tempio d'Ercole e la Porta Aucca [Aurea]’

Tekening uit het album 'Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte', 1778.
Gezicht op de kust van Aden
Object type: photograph
Date: 1851 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: aden
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: coast
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Aden’
Aqua (Water), from The Elements
Object type: print
Date: 1600 – 1600
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: crispijn van de passe (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1564 – 1637
Inscriptions: Lettered upper center: "Aqua" and below image: "Non putres tantum ... sub marmore lusus. /Martin de Voss figuravit / Crispin van de Passe scalpsit et excudit"
Stroom van de Reichenbach bij de Scheidegg
Object type: print
Date: 1852 – 1855
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: trees, brook, mountains
See 07.228.196
Object type: fragment of a bowl
Date: 1295 – 1070
Materials: silver
Location: egypt
Het paleis van den stedenhouder te Warschau
Object type: print
Date: 1847 – 1847
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: palace
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent gebruikt in: Witkamp, P.H. Beschrijving van Oost- en Noord-Europa. Amsterdam: J.H. Laarman, 1847.
Coupé #703
Object type: drawing
Date: 1850 – 1870
Materials: gouache, gum arabic, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Gedenknaald van Cleopatra te Alexandrië
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1852 – 1858
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: alexandria
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: obelisk, needle
Inscriptions: stamp: ‘T. C. A. MANDERS/ Amsterdam’

De afgebeelde obelisk werd in 1879 door Egypte geschonken aan de VS. De huidige standplaats is in Central Park, New York.
Dr. Rudolph Wagner
Object type: print
Date: 1820 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: gottingen
Subjects: adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: check stamp: Lugt 5514, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Design for a Wall with Two Windows
Object type: collection ornament architecture
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen
Artist: anonymous, italian, 16th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1550 – 1600
Subjects: windows,caryatids
Landschap met bloeiende boomgaard
Object type: painting
Date: 1870 – 1886
Materials: oil, panel
Artist: adolphe joseph thomas monticelli
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1886
Subjects: orchard
Inscriptions: signature: ‘A. Monticelli’

Landschap met bloeiende boomgaard. Een moeder met kind bij de voet van een boom.
Man met hoed te paard in een park
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1900
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: cyanotype
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman
The Buddha Preaching the “Perfection of Wisdom” (Prajnaparamita) Sutra
Object type: painting
Date: 1301 – 1400
Materials: gold, ink, silk
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: buddhism, religion
Plaque Decorated with a Duck
Object type: seal plaque, duck, lotus and bud
Date: 1492 – 1473
Materials: stone
Techniques: glazing
Location: egypt
Subjects: ducks

This seal-amulet was found with twenty-three scarabs and seal-amulets in the coffin of a young woman who was buried in Hatnefer's tomb (see 36.3.1 and 36.3 26). The back is carved in the shape of a duck carved and the base is inscribed with a decorative floral pattern.
Portret van Richard Collin
Object type: print
Date: 1639 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: petrus clouwet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1629 – 1670
Subjects: brussels, print maker, richard collin, historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of graphic artist
Venus blinddoekt Amor en twee nimfen dragen pijlen en boog, allegorie op de liefde die alles overwint
Object type: print
Date: 1635 – 1679
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: attributes of cupid: arrow(s), (story of) cupid, amor (eros), attributes of cupid: bow, 'omnia vincit amor', love the conqueror, love triumphant, attributes of cupid: blindfold
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Allegorie op de liefde die alles overwint: Venus blinddoekt Amor en twee nimfen dragen pijlen en boog.
Side-by-Side Self-Priming Pellet-Lock Shotgun
Object type: percussion shotgun
Date: 1835 – 1835
Materials: brass, steel, wood
Culture: british
Location: england
Artist: joseph egg
Artist role: gunsmith
Artist nationality: british, born france
Artist dates: 1775 – 1837

Made for hunting and sporting, this shotgun features a novel self-priming mechanism with a reservoir for tiny fulminate pellets behind the barrels. Despite its reputation for being dangerous, the design is remarkable for its clever concealment of the mechanism’s components inside the stock and lock interiors, maintaining the outward appearance of a traditional percussion shotgun. George IV (1762–1830) purchased a similar self-priming shotgun from Egg in 1825. Firearms technology advanced at a rapid pace in Europe in the early nineteenth century. London’s elite gunmakers, intensely focused on optimizing accuracy, handling, and speed to meet the expectations of England’s sporting gentry were at the forefront of its development. Building on design advancements made in the 1780s and 1790s, particularly the refinement of the flintlock ignition mechanism, they secured in the next three decades dozens of patents for a dizzying variety of new technologies ranging from improved lock mechanisms to novel barrel-making techniques, competing to protect and market their inventions. Handmade with remarkable precision, many London firearms of the period display extraordinary mechanical ingenuity, in addition to being elegantly designed. This creative push in the firearms field may be framed within the broader context of the Industrial Revolution in England—a period marked by the glorification of technological advancements and the celebration of individual inventors and engineers.