Admiration Collection

The Picture of the Year by Batchelor
A pretty young woman becomes the centre of attention at a male-dominated art gallery exhibition

Doncella cigar advertisement, 1965
Advertisement for Doncella cigars featuring a man under a bunch of mistletoe smoking a cigar and attracting much interest from a bevy of beautiful brunettes. Date: 1965

Advert / Reckitts Blue
Reckitts Blue - for a sparkling white wash

The Farce by William Barribal
A young red-headed woman seated in a box at the theatre, feigns interest in what her older male companion has to say while secretly enjoying a kiss on the hand from a young, handsome beau. Date: 1917

The Peachcomber by Rick Elmes
A dapper chap in a sharp white suit and cane enjoys the attentions of several young women in bathing suits on a beach. Date: 1927

Cheeky American Military postcard
A GI uses his position to his advantage, stopping and searching a pretty young girl who he accuses of being a spy! I think he has just spied something else however... Date: 1941

WW2 Christmas card, Escort! A Chelsea Pensioner looks in admiration at an RAF airman with an elegant woman on each arm. Date: 1941

The Anchorite by Laurie Tayler
A lone male bather reads a newspaper on a jetty, unaware that he is the focus of every woman on the beach. Date: 1927

SPINNING STREET DOG
While its master plays the organ, a dog works a spinning wheel, to the admiration of passers-by in the streets of Paris Date: circa 1816

Blthner Advertisement
An advertisement for Blthner & Co. Ltd. London based piano manufacturers, promoting upright, grand and player pianofortes

Orchestrelle Company Advertisement Pianola
An illustrated advertisement for The Orchestrelle Company, promoting the Pianola piano. The image shows a red haired woman playing the instrument, to the admiration two happy people behind

Seated Guitarist
Artwork of a seated male guitarist playing music, with a standing woman behind showing admiration. Date: circa 1926

Every Inch a Soldier - A youn boy marches past a Guardsman in proud imitation - Buckingham Palace, London Date: circa 1920s

Advert, Fisher Body Craftsmans Guild and Corporation, model making for boys, including a miniature model Napoleonic coach, with university scholarships available via a competition

ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY (1)
Plate 1 from Hogarths Analysis of Beauty illustrates the artists theories of aesthetics in art and nature, particularly his admiration of the serpentine form. Date: 1753

LION OF THE PARTY
The Lion of the party! The lion is indeed a lion in evening dress, out- doing two other lions for the attentions and admiration of his fellow guests Date: 1840s

VICTORIAN GIRL SKIPPING
A girl skips, her brother watches with admiration Date: Late 1860s

STAGE GESTURE / ADMIRATION
SUBLIME ADMIRATION Date: 1807

The Real Thing - American Roller Skating girl, flying around the rink, her arms crossed in total confidence to the admiration of all of the onlookers. Date: 1907

Sax Appeal by G. H. Heath
A young woman in a caf頯 r restaurant, sits entranced by a saxophone player who appears to be playing a tune just for her. Date: 1929

The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1915
Front cover illustration for the ILNs Christmas Number 1915, depicting a World War I soldier and Victoria Cross winner back at home from the front enjoying the admiration of his children

VIVA VERDI
GIUSEPPE VERDI During the unrest in Italy in 1859, local people show their admiration for Verdi s, by writing Viva Verdi!

The Tailor Maid by Reginald Higgins
Illustration showing a young woman sewing a suit while a male admirer gazes lovingly into her eyes. Date: 1926

Saint Romula
SAINT ROMULA was a hermit in Palestine. She was paralysed and bedridden, but bore her infirmities with such patience that she earned the admiration of St Gregory the great. Date: 6th century

Merveilleuse Greqcque
Though some merveilleuses carry freedom to excess, others adopt a simpler, Grecian style in admiration of the heroic age which inspires the idealistic revolutionaries Date: 1794

George Stephenson - Hammer
George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) Engineer as a young man, throwing the hammer

The Debutante 1850
A debutante in a beautiful white satin dress and a rosette in her hair, fixes her hair in the mirror. She is admired by her proud mama and servants. Date: 1850

Wurlitzer Instruments
TRY ANY WURLITZER INSTRUMENT IN YOUR OWN HOME - and win the admiration and affection of your neighbors... Date: 1924

Children dancing at a party
There, in a corner, all by herself, a little girl was gravely dancing. A small boy watches a little girl dancing on her own at a childrens party. Date: 1901

Cartoon, the French aviator as hero, WW1
Cartoon, the French aviator as hero -- everyone admires him! Date: 1915

Cartoon, Stoicism, WW1
Cartoon, Stoicism -- a French aviator impresses two fashionable women with his toughness during a bombardment. Date: 1915

Cartoon, French aviator in a bar, WW1
Cartoon, a French aviator with two admiring women in a bar. Oh, he has some little wings! Yes, just like Cupid! Date: 1915

Master Tommys Admiration
A slide showing a small boy standing next to a table looking at a personified Christmas pudding. Part of Box 366 Date: circa 1900

The Kilt in Italy by WW1
A Highland officer wearing his kilt attracts much attention as he walks down the main street of a little town in Italy during the First World War

The Man Who Won the V. C. by Thomas Henry
An officer who has won the Victoria Cross is presented with a situation that finds him a little short of courage - a roomful of young women, eager to meet him. Date: 1915

An Extra-Special Romance by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a police officer initially snobbish about the special constable who is accompanying him on his beat

The Idolaters by MacKenzie
A group of five women kneel in admiration before a dashing British officer standing on a plinth. He raises his monocle to inspect them. Date: 1917

Hats off to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchi
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty during the first two years of the First World War, pictured with his wife, Clementine on their way to the Houses of Parliament

The Glances of English Girls by H. L. Oakley
Silhouette of a British Army officer receiving admiring glances. Illustration to accompany the Bystander magazines regular Bystander in Occupation column by Eric Ford

Erasmic Shaving Stick advertisement 1928
Erasmic Shaving Stick advertisement showing Columbine peeping around a curtain and a Pierrot strumming a guitar on a balcony by the light of a full moon

Woman Diver 1929
A trim lady dives from a board into the sea, catching the eyes of two male bathers who look on in admiration. Date: 1929

FRANCE OO
The lac d Oo is one of the more picturesque sites in the Hautes Pyrenees, however it is probably not named from the gasps of admiration it evokes from sightseers. Date: 1836

An emancipated woman dreaming of the perfect husband
My Dream. An emancipated woman dreaming of a small, manageable, respectable husband! Date: circa 1920s

Emancipated woman shows off her strength
The strong emancipated woman shows off her strength; she balances on a barbell with two red Valentines Day hearts for weights while picking up a puppet-like little man by the scruff of the neck

Admiring a Ladies smart new Automobile
Just a few remarks A crowd of town folk admiring a Ladys smart new Automobile. Date: circa 1904

Comic Postcard - Romance at Piccadilly Circus " I meant t ge on the tube at Piccadilly last night, but I Got Off there instead!

Love Triangle scrap
A charming chromolithograph Victorian scrap featuring a rural scene of young love and possible jealous attention. A pretty girl in pink sits below a tree reading the latest chic-lit whilst her male

Couple admiring flowers

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