Gilt Button from the Luckock Collection
This gilt button is of the type which would have been produced by Matthew Boulton at the Soho Manufactory. Boulton produced a wide range of buttons and buckles which are shown in his pattern books. ...
Green Man by John Phillp
The green man is an ancient fertility symbol found throughout Europe, usually carved in wood or stone. This pen and ink with wash drawing is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches ...
Hamstead Hall
This is a view of the last Hamstead Hall built around 1794 while the previous Hamstead Hall (about 450 yards west) was still standing! Amonst many notable occupants was John Lewis Moilliet originally ...
Hamstead Hall
This is a view of the last Hamstead Hall built around 1794 while the previous Hamstead Hall (about 450 yards west) was still standing! The Hall was demolished in 1936.
Hamstead Hall
One of the best views of Hamstead Hall, demolished in 1936. There were two Hamstead Halls - the first built in the fifteenth century and this one built in the eighteenth century. A large house with extensive ...
Hand holding a flute by John Phillp
This pencil study of a hand holding a flute is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence ...
Handsworth Parish Church
From an old print by Rev Stebbing Shaw. Watercolour by Joseph F. Pimm who gave this picture to Handsworth Historical Society.
Joseph Pimm lived in Woodstock Road, Handsworth. He presented 12 etchings ...
Handwriting exercise by John Phillp
This piece of work would have been carried out as a practice exercise by John Phillp. It reads
Trade is a fluctuating thing:
it passed from Tyre to Alexandria, from
Alexandria to Venice, from Venice ...
Hanson Map of Holloway Head area in 1778
This is a detailed section of the map. Most of the area shown is filled with the orchards and fields which lined the route from Bath Row down into Holloway Head. Note that the very end of the route into ...
Hasluck Family crypt at Key Hill Cemetery
The Hasluck family lived in Handsworth, most famously at The Austins. Elizabeth Hasluck's paintings of the Austins can be found elsewhere on this site. Key Hill Cemetery in the city centre is the location ...
Head and shoulders of a young man by John Phillp
This drawing is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). It shows the head and shoulders of a young man and may be a self portrait. It is labelled ...
Heathfield Hall
The former home of James Watt - inventor and engineer who worked with Matthew Boulton. It was built in 1790 and stood on grounds that lay between Hamstead Road, Church Hill Road and Heathfield Road. The ...
Heathfield Hall by Beatrice Bullock
Heathfield Hall, the former home of James Watt painted by Beatrice Bullock and given to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1938.
Beatrice Bullock lived in Handsworth at 14 Kingsleigh Road and painted ...
Hut in the Pleasure grounds of the Earl of Dartmouth by John Phillp
'Hutt in the Pleasure Grounds of the Earl of Dartmouth, at Sandwell... Sketch'd on the spot' by John Phillp, 1807.
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by ...
Ink wash drawing of farm buildings by John Phillp
This ink wash drawing by John Phillp shows unknown farm buildings, apparently on fire.
The image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp ...
Inscription by John Phillp
The inscription reads
To Mr JOSEPH MOORE WHO HAS RAISED THE TRIENNIAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL INSTITUTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL HOSPITAL NEAR [altered to AT] BIRMINGHAM FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS TO UNRIVALLED ...
Inscription for silver soup tureen, cover and stand by John Phillp
This is the inscription on a silver soup tureen which was presented to James Watt by the Proprietors of Glasgow Waterworks. Watt had advised them on the best way of moving water to their engines at Dalmarnock ...
Interior view of the Hermitage at Soho by John Phillp
This watercolour shows the interior of the Hermitage, one of the garden buildings built on the Soho Estate by the industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). He referred to it as his 'building ...