Swift Collection

Gulliver in Lilliput
Gulliver is tied down by the people of Lilliput

Female munitions workers. By Fortunio Matania
As it became clear there would be no decisive swift victory for either side in World War I, the constant demand for munitions increased

Gulliver in Brobdingnag
He is tormented by the Kings jester, who is jealous of his small size

HMS Swift, British destroyer leader, WW1
HMS Lord Nelson, British predreadnought battleship, launched 1906, served in the First World War, decommissioned 1919. Date: early 20th century

Grey-rumped Tree Swift
Illustration of a Grey-rumped Tree Swift by William Swainson (1789-1855)

Gulliver Tied / Lilliput
Gulliver is tied up by the people of Lilliput: " I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir."

Lilliputians / Sneezing
A couple of inquisitive Lilliputians climb inside Gullivers snuff box & sneeze & sneeze

Supermarine Swift F4

Chicago Stockyards
Cattle awaiting slaughter in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago - note the boards for Armour and Swift

Gulliver / Lilliput / Sport
Gulliver watches the sports of the courtiers

Gulliver / Houyhnhnnms
The Houyhnhnm graciously permits Gulliver to kiss his hoof

Gulliver / Blefuscudian
Gulliver captures the Blefuscudian fleet

Central Parade, Deal, England
Central Parade, Deal, near Dover, Kent, England. Showing a Swift Vintage Car. Date: 1920s

Gulliver / Servants / Lillip
He is given six hundred servants to wait on him

Royal Air Force Supermarine Swift FR. 5 WK281
Royal Air Force Supermarine Swift FR.5 WK281. Built by Vickers Armstrong and delivered on 5 November 1956, WK281 joined No 79 Squadron at RAF Gutersloh

Supermarine Swift F-4
Supermarine Swift F.4 Wk198 Parked at RAF Chilbolton on 22 September before Departing to Libya - Piloted by Commander Mike Lithgow Broke the World Absolute Speed Record

Supermarine Swift FR. 5 7712M - WK281
Royal Air Force Supermarine Swift FR.5 7712M / WK281. Built by Vickers Armstrong and delivered on 5 November 1956, WK281 joined No 79 Squadron at RAF Gutersloh

Advert, Coxeter & Sons Ltd, Oxford
Advert, Coxeter & Sons Ltd, New Road Motor Works, Oxford Date: 1907

H. G. Seaborne, Show A Leg!
An advertisement page promoting the services of H. G. Seaborne Ltd. a London based advertising company, specialists in block making, photography and retouching

Gulliver kisses the Queen of Brobdingnag's hand Date: 1900

Manchester City v Portsmouth, FA Cup Final
FA Cup Final 1934 - Swift, Manchester City goalkeeper, punches clear against Portsmouth Date: 1934

Irish and Welsh Mps
Portraits of welsh and rishi members of Parliament. Seen are; Dr C Tanner, Mr. John Redmond, Mr. William Redmond, Mr. John Dillon, Mr. Timothy Healy, Mr. J. Swift Sacneil, Mr

Frank Swift serving as special constable, WW2
Frank Swift, Manchester City goalkeeper, serving as a Special Constable during the Second World War - he later joined the RAF Date: circa 1940s

Football brothers, Frank and Fred Swift, on their boat
Famous football brothers, both goalkeepers, Frank Swift, Manchester City and Fred Swift, Bolton Wanderers, on their boat at Blackpool Date: 1946

The Curtain Illustration
An illustration in reference to a poem, written by Australian poet, Zora Bernice May Cross, showing a woman in a blue dress, hiding behind a stage curtain

Supermarine Swift F. 4 WK275
Supermarine Swift F.4 WK275 (msn ?) Outside Sheppards Surplus, in Upperhill, Leominster, Herefordshire, UK - England. Date: circa 1980

Rorqual Whale captured in the River Dart, Devon 1856
Pike-headed rorqual whale being attacked by a local cottager on the north shore of Millbay Creek, River Dart. The whale had beached itself when the tide fell

WYCLIF'S ASHES SCATTERED
After his death, the Council of Constance condemns Wyclif for heresy : his body is exhumed, burnt and the ashes cast into the brook Swift, and carried to the wide world... Date: 1384

EDISON'S KINETOSCOPE Reproducing to the eye the effect of human motion by means of a swift and graded succession of pictures'. Date: 1894

GULLIVER IN LAPUTA
He meets the Governor of the Island of Sorcerers, where the servants are dead spirits : great men of the past are summoned and speak with him. Date: First published: 1726

VISIONS ON GLUBBDUBRIB
GULLIVER ON GLUBBDUBRIB On the Island of Sorcerers, the Magicians are served by spirits called from the dead. Great men of the past are summoned to speak with him. Date: First published: 1726

News stand in Central London
A news stand in Central London, with a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. Date: circa 1960

Captain Swift in the Punjab. Date: 1894

Swift the stag. A male deer walking into a pool at sunset. Artist: Edith Berkeley Date: 1914

Thatched House Tavern
The Thatched House Tavern appears to have been established in 1704 or 1705, probably in St James Street. This building was demolished in 1814

Chimney swift and bank swallow
Chimney swift, Chaetura pelagica 1, bank swallow, Riparia riparia 2, males. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds

Wilsons snipe or common snipe, Gallinago delicata, males 1, female 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of

Pharmacis carna, orange swift and gold swift moths
Pharmacis carna 2-4, orange swift, Triodia sylvina 5, 6, and gold swift, Phymatopus hecta 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die

Ghost moth and gold swift
Ghost moth, Hepialus humuli 1-4, and gold swift, Phymatopus hecta 5-7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen

Common swift moth, gold swift and Pharmacis carna
Common swift moth, Korscheltellus lupulina 1-4, gold swift, Phymatopus hecta 5, and Pharmacis carna 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers

Small lappet and autumn silkworm moth
Small lappet, Phyllodesma ilicifolia, and autumn silkworm moth, Lemonia taraxaci. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge

Jonathan Swift at Christening Supper, London
Jonathan Swift at the Christening Supper in the St Jamess Coffee House, London. He wrote in his Journal to Stella: " This evening I christened our coffee-man Elliots child; when the rogue had a

Pacific swift, Apus pacificus (New Holland swallow, Hirundo pacifica). From an illustration by John Lewin. Handcoloured engraving by Griffith, Harriet or Edward

Exotic lizards and anoles
Cape girdled lizard, Cordylus cordylus 1, Cuviers Madagascar swift, Oplurus cuvieri 2, mountain horned lizard, Phrynosoma orbiculare 3, Jamaican anole, Anolis garmani 4, and green anole

Rammed HMS Swift and HMS Broke, Straits of Dover, WW1
Rammed HMS Swift and HMS Broke in the Straits of Dover, First World War. 1914-1918

A Calendar of Birds by Pauline Baynes
Birds of the month in the UK pictured by Pauline Baynes. 1954

Leicestershire County FC Team 1895: Davis, Hogan, Lovell, Swift, Montieth, Lee, Cotterill, Atkins, Thompson, Dixon, Carpenter, Bull, Hibberd, Wood. 1890s

Cumberland County Football Team: Ellis, Milligan, Brown, Dawson, Millward, Swift, Waite, Bell, Claridge, Landalls, Smith, Ross, Satterthwaite. 1890s

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