EditorialSteeplechase cracks: Allen McDonough on Brunette, Tom Oliver on Discount, and Jem Mason on Lottery. Date/Period: Before 1847. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 711 mm (27.99 in); Width: 914 mm (35.98 in).
EditorialThe great lottery. This is an advertisement for England’s first ever National Lottery. It was issued in 1567 by Queen Elizabeth I. At this time England was seeking to expand its export markets around the world. The lottery was intended to raise mone...
EditorialSteeplechase cracks: Allen McDonough on Brunette, Tom Oliver on Discount, and Jem Mason on Lottery. Date/Period: Before 1847. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 711 mm (27.99 in); Width: 914 mm (35.98 in).
EditorialA woman expires in shock at the sight of a blank piece of paper brandished by the skeleton of Death in a Lottery Office. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.
EditorialSteeplechase cracks: Allen McDonough on Brunette, Tom Oliver on Discount, and Jem Mason on Lottery Study of Three Steeplechase Cracks: Allen McDonough on Brunette, Tom Oliver on Discount and Jem Mason on Lottery Three Racehorses with Jockeys Up, John F...
EditorialShopfront of a lottery office, 63 rue de Grenelle St. Germain, Paris, circa 1800. Handcoloured lithograph from Hector-Martin Lefuel's "Boutiques Parisiennes du Premier Empire," (Parisian Stores of the First Empire), Paris, Albert Morance, 1925. The lit...