Example sentences of "from [art] 19th " in BNC.

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1 His novels — it was , and is , argued — are constructions from the 19th century , throwbacks to a great but vanished age .
2 Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry .
3 Much of the present structure dates from the 19th century , the mill taking its name from Brimscombe Port , built close at hand by the Thames and Severn Canal Co .
4 Although this is an old site , the present three-storey building appears to date largely from the 19th century .
5 Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century .
6 Although this site is quite old , the present building dates from the 19th century .
7 The majority of the buildings house the vats and equipment used in the brewing process , a scene that , with a few modern exceptions , could be straight from the 19th century .
8 The motor museum now has an interesting collection of cars plus an incredible number of advertising signs ( over 600 ) and artifacts from the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries .
9 This sighting and similar reports from the 19th century fuelled the belief in a vast polar continent .
10 The condoms , sold at London auctioneers Christie 's , dated from the 19th century .
11 Paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries show us a countryside where humans are not dominant but co-exist with Nature in the struggle for life ; where cultivated fields are everywhere bounded by the wilderness which constantly threatens to encroach and claim back its own .
12 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
13 The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century .
14 It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain .
15 Pompeian decoration features in ceramics , glass and metal from the 19th century as the public craved objects decorated with designs discovered at the excavations of the ancient Italian city between 1860–1875 .
16 The main building dates from the 19th century and two new wings have since been added .
17 Two fine 18th century dolls are at the centre of the notable doll collection , and there are also dolls ' houses from the 19th century and the 1920s and a model of a German kitchen .
18 The use of the term shilling derives from an 19th century system of invoicing beer according to its gravity — a 60 shilling ale is a low gravity beer , an 80 shilling one is considerably stronger , similar to an English special bitter .
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