Drawings Collection (#5)

Drawing of Chinese soldier with pike
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

My Idea of the Dance Dress by Mrs Vernon Castle - dresses for dnacing largely inspired by Parisian modes from Paul Poiret and Lucile Date: 1914

Refugees in the London underground (1941). Watercolor by Henry Moore belonging to the series The Shelter Drawings. Watercolour. Private Collection

Planes (1940). Wax drawing by Henry Moore. Drawing. Private Collection

Malaspina expedition. Tonga islands (1793). Sepulcher of Paulajo, a ruler of the islands. Drawing by Fernando Brambila. Drawing. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Americas Museum

Reconstruction of a Spanish mission as those built from 16th century by Jesuit and Franciscan orders to evangelize territories in Central and South America

Anatomy of the Human Body. Persian manuscript (16th c.) illustrating the muscles and nervous system in a male body in a squatting position. Persian art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (1864-1901). Trapeze artist getting dressed. 1890. Post-Impressionism. Drawing. FRANCE. MIDI-PYRɎ Ʌ S. TARN. Albi. Toulouse-Lautrec Museum

Masonic tools. Drawing. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 du Grand Orient de France et de la Franc-Ma篮 nerie Europ饮 ne

North West Frontier Province scenes - NWFP
Album containing 13 pencil and wash drawings, many finely annotated, showing scenes in the North West Frontier. Contains an ink sketch made during the Battle at Shinkamar, 1898

The British Firing Line - a portfolio of 12 engravings in colour from drawings made on the Western Front 1914-1917. Printed by George Pullman & Sons Ltd

Earls Court exhibition centre by G. H. Davis
The 1, 250, 000 plan to make Earls Court the worlds largest centre for exhibitions: a pictorial forecast. The coming revival of Earls Court exhibitions on the grand scale

British mine-laying submarine by G. H. Davis
A British mine-laying submarine: detailed drawings of a boat of the Rorqual Class, in use during the Second World War. It carried out a specialised and dangerous task in enemy waters. Date: 1944

Siege Weapon - Catapault
A detailed drawing of a 16th century catapult, indicating its various and numerous forms of ammunition. Date: 1588

King Duck, by John James Audubon
King Duck, Fuligula Spectabilis, by John James Audubon (1785-1851). A colour plate in The Birds of America: From Original Drawings. Date: 1827-1838

Belted Kingfisher, by John James Audubon (1785-1851). A colour plate in The Birds of America: From Original Drawings. Date: 1827-1838

KANT, Emmanuel (1724-1804). German philosopher

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). Sketch of the
" LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). Sketch of the head proportions. From Vitruvius " The Ten Books on Architecture". Drawing. ITALY. Venice

The French Revolution. Legislative Assembly (1791-1792). Louis XVI is notified that he will be imprisoned at the Temples tower. August 1792. Drawing

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). Codex Leicester or Codex Hammer (1508-1510). Mountains. Renaissance art. Drawing

Lysistrata by Aubrey Beardsley
An illustration by Aubrey Beardsley to the play Lysistrata by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. In the play, Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their

The Pirates Cave. By A. E. Bestall
An Illustration of two ladies daring each other to venture into a pirates cave. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years

A Landlady with her a prospective lodger
Seaside Landlady (discussing previous lodger):And to crown it all, she actually wanted to take alf of my lovely pictures down! So I tells er straight, You ain t got no soul for art. I says

Coquette by A. E. Bestall
A colour illustration by Alfred Bestall of a young girl with auburn hair trying to coax a red squirral down from a tree. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

The Char-A-Banc. By A. E. Bestall
A fantasy scene showing two fairies hiding beside a waterfall. They cower from the humans looking from real world above. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

David Duguid
Scottish medium, best known for his drawings done in trance

French Railway Alphabet - I for Ingenieurs (engineers). 19th century

Russian Artillery
Artillery. Watercolour, artist unknown, nd, 1807 (c). From Militairisthe Uniformen Russland. 1807, folder containing six drawings of Russian soldiers in various animated scenes. Date: circa 1860

Postcard from Egypt
Greeting card from Egypt with drawings of a stereotypical desert city and two photographs of a camel rider in front of a pyramid and a local cafe. Date: circa 1910

Cairo Citadel and group of camel riders
Two pictures of a travelling group of camel riders and of the Saladin Citadel of Cairo on a postcard decorated with drawn roses. Date: 1902

Prize Agents extracting treasure. Coloured lithograph from The Campaign in India 1857-58 from drawings made during the eventful period of the Great Mutiny

Drawing of Chinese guard leading prisoner on chain
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of Chinese market traders arranging fruit
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of 2 Chinese men playing mahjong
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of Chinese seamstress sewing, bound feet
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of Chinese man with caged songbird
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of Chinese market water-melon seller
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of 2 Chinese peasants carrying baskets
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of 2 Chinese Men with parasol and inscription
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of Chinese street fish seller
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Drawing of Chinese street flower seller
One of a set of 12 coloured drawings on paper found and carried off from one of the forts of Woosung by Captain (then Lieutenant) Henry Eden, R.N. on 18 June 1842

Bruce Bairnsfather Fragments from France exhibition, 1916
Advertisement in The Graphic for an exhibition of drawings by the popular soldier cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather. The pictures were exhibited at the Graphic Galleries, 190 Strand

Two Ladies in the newest Dress, from drawings taken at Ranelagh Gardens, London, May 1775. 1775

Cover design, The Man in the Moon, a magazine which ran for just over two years. The editors were Albert Smith and Angus B Reach. late 1840s

Capt. Craig at Holywood, Co. Down (1911). Staples, Sir Robert Ponsonby 1853 - 1943. 1 of 4 drawings mounted on 1 sheet Date: 1911

Taxus melanosporum, Yew - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1835. Paper, watercolour. London. Botany Library, Bauer Unit, Unfinished Drawings of Plants Cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew 6: f. 29

Anigozanthos flavidus, Tall kangaroo paw - Tall kangaroo paw, Anigozanthos flavidus, by Franz Bauer, undated. Paper, pencil, watercolour. Unfinished Drawings of Plants, vol. 5, no. 50

Cypripedium reginae - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1788. Unfinished Drawings of Plants vol. 4, no. 219.< br> < br> Held in the Museums Botany Library Date: 1788

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