* The Klencke Atlas is commissioned by Dutch merchants as a gift to King Charles II of England ; it remains to this day the world's largest book ever made.

In the mid 1750s, the Boston portraitist, John Greenwood, was commissioned by a group of sea captains and merchants, including Hopkins, to create a satirical painting.

The colonial art market primarily desired landscape paintings, which were commissioned by wealthy landowners or merchants wanting to record their material success.

In several initial missions commissioned by Afonso de Albuquerque of Portuguese Malacca, the Portuguese explorers Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello landed in southern China and traded with the Chinese merchants of Tuen Mun and Guangzhou.

Some of it was highly elaborate, commissioned by wealthy merchants and daimyo.

On 10 June 1520 he was commissioned, with Sir Thomas More, John Hussee, and Hewester, to settle the disputes between the English merchants and the Teutonic Hanse, and went again to the Netherlands.

The history of Ekibastuz begins in the 19th century, when Kosym Pshembayev, a native Kazakh who was commissioned by Russian merchants to look for mineral resources in that region, alighted on a coal field southeast of Pavlodar.

As the most significant portrait painter of contemporary Germany, he was commissioned by a large number of German princes, church dignitaries rich merchants and scholars, and his works were popularized by engravings even during his lifetime.

" To immortalize outstanding American merchants ", Joseph Kennedy in 1953 commissioned a bronze bust of George Huntington Hartford, four times life size along with 7 other men, which would come to be known as the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame in Chicago.

In May, 1596, Rijp was named captain of the second of two ships commissioned to Barents by Dutch merchants to discover the fabled Northern Sea Route to the Indies.

A number of churches, monasteries, and chambers were commissioned by the local merchants at that time.

The first churches were commissioned by the princes ; however, after the 13th century merchants, guilds and communities began to commission cathedrals.

In 1452 Maso delivered and was paid for a niellated silver pax commissioned for the baptistery of St. John by the consuls of the guild of merchants or Calimara.

All kinds come to walk in the promenade: merchants from the bazaar bickering over a deal ; ;

The Company maintained a store at which products of England could be purchased and brought in goods for the new merchants on the understanding that they refrain from trading in furs.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

He not only had enough food from his subjects to maintain his military, but the taxes collected from traders and merchants added to his coffers sufficiently to fund his continuous wars.

Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.

The merchants with whom they were travelling, defended themselves vigorously and for a time successfully, but eventually they were conquered and overcome by the pirates, who took from them their ships and all that they possessed, whilst they themselves barely escaped on.

Dutch-Bandanese relations were mutually resentful from the outset, with Holland ’ s first merchants complaining of Bandanese reneging on agreed deliveries and price, and cheating on quantity and quality.

His political program enjoyed support from merchants, large landowners, foreign capitalists, the church, and the military.

Pressure from London sugar merchants fearing a decline in sugar prices forced a series of negotiations with the Spanish over colonial territories.

By the late Bronze Age, however, a series of treaties had established safe passage for merchants around the Eastern Mediterranean, spreading from Minoan Crete and Mycenae in the northwest to Elam and Bahrain in the southeast.

It began as a means for merchants to exchange heavy coinage for receipts of deposit issued as promissory notes from shops of wholesalers, notes that were valid for temporary use in a small regional territory.

The equipment is usually purchased from an American supplier ( although some merchants have attempted to set up shop in Canada ) and the services are billed to an American postal address.

Jacob Burckhardt, in his cultural classic The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, observed that hierarchy, exclusionary and inherited caste structure was pervasive in Italy, from the nobili caste to the merchants to the peasants.

He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East, gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited from the classical geographers to create the most accurate map of the world up until his time.

Opposition from local seamen and merchants saw the route diverted to Kingswear on the opposite side of the river, but this occurred after the station had been built at Dartmouth.

In the edict, Diocletian declared that the current pricing crisis resulted from the unchecked greed of merchants, and had resulted in turmoil for the mass of common citizens.

As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using muskets and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave merchants.

Many merchants from Amsterdam and Zeeland decided to work with marine and merchants from Hamburg, Glückstadt ( then Danish ), England and other countries.

If anyone shall dare attack pilgrims going to Rome to visit the shrines of the Apostles and the oratories of other saints and rob them of the things they have with them, or exact from merchants new imposts and tolls, let him be excommunicated till he has made satisfaction.

His mother, Ida Barbiani ( 1896 – 1984 ), came from a bourgeois Catholic family of Roman merchants.

Genoese came during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially from the poorer parts of Liguria, some of them annually following fishing shoals, as repairmen for the British navy, or as successful traders and merchants ; many others came during the Napoleonic period to avoid obligatory conscription to the French Army.

Apart from routine official duties, Holbein now occupied himself with private commissions, turning again to portraits of Steelyard merchants.

Chinese and Indian merchants across the street were slamming their steel shutters.

He issued in 1162 and 1165 two important documents, with the following grants: apart from the jurisdiction over the Pisan countryside, the Pisans were granted freedom of trade in the whole Empire, the coast from Civitavecchia to Portovenere, a half of Palermo, Messina, Salerno and Naples, the whole of Gaeta, Mazara and Trapani, and a street with houses for its merchants in every city of the Kingdom of Sicily.

However, commercial life in the region was not dead, and originating from the two settlements at Reknes and Molde ( later Moldegård ), a minor port called Molde Fjære ( Molde Landing ) emerged, based on trade with timber and herring to foreign merchants. Molde's main street and commercial center.

In Paris and New York City, a number of the Mouride followers are small street merchants.

The street demonstrations originated from the leadership of respectable public leaders such as James Otis who commanded the Boston Gazette and Samuel Adams of the " Loyal Nine " of the Boston Caucus, an organization of Boston merchants.

Below them was the disenfranchised urban population, maybe half of the total in many cities, the so-called " residents " ( Beisassen ) or " guests ": smaller artisans, craftsmen, street venders, day laborers, servants and the poor, but also those whose residence in the city was temporary, such as wintering noblemen, foreign merchants, princely officials, and so on.

These functioned as advertising and also as maps, directing the public to merchants ' stores, as no formal street address numbering system existed at the time.

Constructed within a pair of 18th century silk merchants ' houses, onto which London practice 6a Architects added two contemporary galleries, it stands on the part of the street know until 1895 as Raven Row.

For instance, he created a staged commercial district inside his palace and ordered all his ministers, eunuchs, soldiers and servants of the palace to dress up and act as merchants or street vendors while he walked through the scene pretending to be a commoner.

* In Europe, especially in France and Britain, street markets, as well as " marketplaces " ( covered places where merchants have stalls, but not entire stores ) are commonplace.

* Sales of gift vouchers redeemable at certain high street merchants

The idea was controversial, some people believing that the Danes did not have the mentality for " public life " envisioned by such a street, and many local merchants believed the move would scare away business.

During the Edo Period, merchants began building small gardens in the space behind their shops, which faced the street, and their residences, located at the rear.

Its inhabitants included wealthy Boston merchants such as Benjamin Faneuil ( after whom a street in Brighton is named ).

A fair number of the houses in Gubbio date to the 14th and 15th centuries, and were originally the dwellings of wealthy merchants ; they often have a second door fronting on the street, usually just a few inches from the main entrance.

On land the rickshaws were extremely popular when they were first imported from Japan in 1874, since it was affordable and necessary for street merchants to haul goods.

This section of Atlantic Avenue is the site of the Atlantic Antic, an annual street fair involving local and visiting merchants and artists, held in early October.

** There is a street in Regensburg named Wahlenstrasse, seemingly once inhabited by Italian merchants.

The ground floor had a central courtyard surrounded by Doric colonnades but it was " dark and confined, and the merchants preferred to transact business in the street outside ".

The CSTDF was a hodgepodge, much like the Knights of Labor in the United States in the nineteenth century: it included the two unions led by Velázquez and Yuren, street vendors and merchants organizations, the " unión blanca " or company union of streetcar workers composed largely of strikebreakers, a union of homeopathic doctors, grave diggers and bottling plant workers.

A " merchants row ", a street of merchants, runs for the whole weekend, as well as a Saturday only market.

Karinto's roots are controversial between China around Nara Period to Kyoto aristocrats or from Portugal in later period, but in either case it has been available from street merchants since at least the Tenpō era, roughly 1830 to 1841.

The plaza became famous in the 1960s for its street fair, popularly called the “ feria hippie .” Over time, in addition to genuine artisans and craftspeople, the fair has attracted street vendors and merchants of a wide variety of merchandise.