Varnish posters & prints

Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy Anonymous

Streaks of Desert Varnish on Rock Face Anonymous

The Virgin of Humility Fra Giovanni da Fiesole Angelico

Brisé fan of wood, partially painted with flowers and fully varnished Gijs Bosch Reitz

Cochineal and lac insects, c1850 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days: J. Doyle: Varnishing, a Sign (of the Times), June 24, 1831 Anonymous

Varnish Laboratory, Borough Polytechnic, Southwark, London, 1936 Unknown

Armchair. Srinigar, India, 19th century Unknown

Church Interior, c. 1855 Farnham Maxwell Lyte

Model wagon Bernard John Mills

The Good Waters, 1852 John Stewart

Musical box in the shape of a piano William Sawyer

Page of Pentacles Antonio Cicognara

Pull along guardsmen skittle with cannon Tofa

The Machinery Court at the Great Exhibition Joseph Nash

Wallpaper Unknown

Bouquet, c. 1855 Adolphe Braun

Pull along guardsman on horseback Escor Toys

Untitled, 1859 William James Stillman; J. W. Black

The Star Antonio Cicognara

Bellows. Srinagar, India, late 19th century Unknown

Poster for colours and varnishes of the Moscow Shemshurin company, 1904 Anonymous

Varnishing day at the New York National Academy of Design C. S. Reinhart

Time smoking a Picture, 1761 William Hogarth

J.M.W. Turner on Varnishing Day, 1846 William Parrott

Book cover Anonymous

Battery, Malakoff, 1855 Leon-Eugéne Méhédin; Col. Charles Langlois

Book cover Anonymous

Electrical discharge The Autotype Company

Book cover Anonymous

Death wearing a cardinal's hat and matellata. Italy, 16th century Antonio Cicognara

Electrical discharge The Autotype Company

Pearline paint advert Anonymous

The Fourdinois Cabinet at the Great Exhibition Dickinson Brothers

Portrait of the Queen Charles Clifford

Scandinavian Artist's Luncheon at Cafe Ledoyen on Varnishing Day, 1886 Hugo Birger