Abbe Collection

Any Girl, Any Station, Anywhere by S. Van Abbe
A fashionable young woman from the 1920s wearing a fur trimmed coat and a green cloche hat, rest her sore feet while sitting on a very large trunk at a railway station. Date: 1927

Abbe Julio Exorcises
A French renegade priest and practising magician, the Abbe Julio, performs a ceremony of exorcism in his private chapel

Epee Teaching Deaf Mutes
L ABBE DE L EPEE instructing deaf-mutes in the sign language he invented to enable them to communicate

The famous comedian Fleury (Abraham-Joseph Benard) 1750-1822 as the Marquis de Moncade in Ecole des Bourgeois by Abbe d Allainval at the Theatre Francais, Paris 1816

Abbe Bauer, chaplain to the Empress Eugenie Date: circa 1860s

Jean Rousselot at work at the Big Bertha research lab in Paris, he was a French phonetician and dialectologist. He himself signs his publications under the name of L'abbe Rousselot or L'abbe

Camellia bonardii
Camellia japonica variety, Camellia bonardii or Camellia bonnardii. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Johann Jakob Jung from Lorenzo Berleses

Camellia squamosa
Camellia japonica variety, Camellia squamosa or Camellia squammosa. Produced by Dr. Sacco of Milan in 1838. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by

Camellia delicatissima
Camellia japonica variety, Camellia delicatissima. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Johann Jakob Jung from Lorenzo Berleses Iconographie du Genre

Camellia punctata plena
Camellia japonica variety, Camellia punctata plena. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Johann Jakob Jung from Lorenzo Berleses Iconographie du Genre

Camellia myrthyfolia
Camellia japonica variety, Camellia myrthyfolia. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Johann Jakob Jung from Lorenzo Berleses Iconographie du Genre

Camellia variegata plena
Camellia japonica variety, Camellia variegata plena. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Johann Jakob Jung from Lorenzo Berleses Iconographie du

Camellia monfortiana
Camellia japonica variety, Camellia monfortiana. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Johann Jakob Jung from Lorenzo Berleses Iconographie du Genre

David Garrick and Mary Ann Yates in the characters
Mr. David Garrick and Mrs. Mary Ann Yates in the characters of Lusignan and Zara in Aaron Hills Zara, Drury Lane Theatre, 1758. Copperplate engraving by W

Branch, leaf, fruit and flower of the coffee tree, Coffea arabica. Copperplate engraving from Abbe Antoine Francois Prevosts Histoire generale des voyages, Paris, 1746

Henri Breuil (1877-1961), often referred to as Abbe Breuil. French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. Portrait

DEAF / DUMB LANGUAGE
The sign language for the hands, devised by the Abbe lEpee for the benefit of the deaf and dumb. Date: circa 1770

NOLLET EXPERIMENT 7
The Abbe Nollet demonstrates the electrical conductivity of the human body to a fashionable Paris audience Date: circa 1750

NOLLET LECTURES 1754
JEAN-ANTOINE (abbe) NOLLET gives a course in physics at the College de Navarre, Paris, where he is professor Date: 1754

JEAN-ANTOINE NOLLET known as the Abbe Nollet, French professor of physics who carried out important early electrical experiments Date: 1700 - 1770

EPEE TEACHING DEAF MUTES
LABBE DE LEPEE instructing deaf-mutes in the sign language he invented to enable them to communicate Date: 1712 - 1789

NOLLET MACHINE
The electrical machine of Jean-Antoine Nollet, abbe and professor of experimental physics at the University of Paris. Date: circa 1750

The Abbe Liszt by Mervyn Suart
FRANZ LISZT Hungarian musician (1811-1886) - an unusual composition showing Liszt deep in thought, bathed by candlelight, while a couple dance in a romantic clinch, presumably to his music. Date: 1938

Abbe Suger / Lassalle
SUGER, ABBOT French divine, historian, abbot of Saint-Denis Date: 1081 - 1151

KANDINSKY, Wassily. Murnau with Church
KANDINSKY, Wassili (1866-1944). Murnau with Church. 1910. Expressionism. Oil on canvas. NETHERLANDS. NORTH BRABANT. Eindhoven. Municipal Van Abbe Museum

Abbe Sicard / Langlois
ABBE R.A.C. SICARD French teacher of the deaf and dumb

Henri Gregoire / Profile
HENRI GREGOIRE (Abbe) French prelate and revolutionary, member of the Estates-General and Constituent Assembly

Frontispiece to L Abbe Mouret, Aubrey Beardsley
Design for a frontispiece to Emile Zolas L Abbe Mouret by Aubrey Beardsley. 1890s

Caricature of the actor and dramatist Harry Paulton
Caricature of the comic actor and dramatist Harry Paulton in the role of The Abbe. circa 1880s

Aloysius Ed. Gaultier 2
ALOYSIUS EDOUARD GAULTIER French abbe and educator Date: 1745 - 1818

Aloysius Ed. Gaultier 1
ALOYSIUS EDOUARD GAULTIER French abbe and educator Date: 1745 - 1818

Henry Edgeworth Firmont
Abbe HENRY EDGEWORTH DES FIRMONT Irish churchman in France, confessor to Louis XVI. Date: 1745 - 1807

Jean Duvergier De Haur
Abbe JEAN DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE French churchman of Jansenist leanings. Date: 1581 - 1643

Pierre Desfontaines
PIERRE FRANCOIS GUYOT, abbe DESFONTAINES French churchman and writer Date: 1685 - 1745

Jacques Delille - 4
Abbe JACQUES DELILLE French writer, One of the Forty of the Academie Francaise - judging by the ornaments in this engraving, he wrote of rustic matters. Date: 1738 - 1813

Gervais De LA Rue
GERVAIS DE LA RUE French abbe and historian Date: 1751 - 1833

Jacques Delille - 5
Abbe JACQUES DELILLE French writer, Academician - this painting was made while Delille was reciting his verses, you may be interested to know. Date: 1738 - 1813

Jacques Delille - 3
Abbe JACQUES DELILLE French writer, Academician Date: 1738 - 1813

Charles Cotin
Abbe CHARLES COTIN French churchman, poet and preacher. Date: 1604 - 1682

Guillaume De Chaulieu
GUILLAUME AMERYE, abbe de CHAULIEU French writer and wit Date: 1639 - 1720

Ferdinand Chatel
Abbe FERDINAND TOUSSAINT FRANCOIS CHATEL French churchman, founder of L Eglise Francaise. Date: 1795 - 1857

Abbe Jean Chappe
Abbe JEAN CHAPPE French astronomer Date: 1722 - 1769

Gui Toussaint Carron 2
Abbe GUI TOUSSAINT CARRON Breton churchman, moralist, described as L ami des francais malheureux - the friend of unfortunate French people. Date: 1760 - 1821

Gui Toussaint Carron
Abbe GUI TOUSSAINT CARRON French churchman, moralist, described as L ami des francais malheureux - the friend of unfortunate French people. Date: 1760 - 1821

Francois D aubignac
FRANCOIS HEDELIN, abbe d AUBIGNAC French scholar and writer in the classical tradition. Date: 1604 - 1676

Francois Rozier
FRANCOIS ROZIER French abbe and naturalist Date: 1734 - 1793

Augustin De Lestrange
Dom Augustin Louis Henry de LESTRANGE French Trappist abbe, clutching his crosier Date: 1754 - 1827

Pierre De Brantome (Mono
Pierre de Bourdelle, seigneur de BRANTOME French abbe, historian and biographer Date: 1540 - 1614

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