Browne Collection (page 2)

Johnnys Pa soaked by an Elephant at the Zoo
Comic Postcard - Johnnys Pa - Johnnys Pa takes the children to the Zoo (and gets a little more than he was bargaining for...!). Date: 1907

Letter from William Prime Marshall to Walter Raleigh Browne
Letter, 7 Dec 1883 from William Prime Marshall to Walter Raleigh Browne accompanying an explanation of James Watts Sculpture copying machinery (eidograph) - see BAW/14/001-2. Date: circa 1809

Cover design, Harry Coverdales Courtship
Part-work cover design, Harry Coverdales Courtship and all that came of it, by Frank E Smedley, illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), Part 1, Price one shilling. 1854

Wedding tradition, Throwing the Slipper. 19th century

Cover design, Roland Cashel by Charles Lever
Part-work cover design, Roland Cashel by Charles Lever, illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), No. IX, price one shilling. 1849

Sewing dollys dress - Young girl with plaits mending her dollys dress, aided by her friend. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930

Building bricks - Young children playing with building bricks. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930

Watching birds - Baby boy at breakfast watching birds on the window sill. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930

Flying kites - Children flying kites in the fields on a breezy day. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930

Fruitseller - Boy with fruit in his cart comes to the front door to offer fruit to his young friends. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930

Valentine Browne
Date: 1881

Springer Spaniel puppies
Five large spaniel puppies crowded in a basket. Owner: Browne. Date: 1946

The Bad Man, comedy by Porter Emerson Browne
The Bad Man, a melodramatic comedy by Porter Emerson Browne, starring Matheson Lang, at the New Theatre, St Martins Lane, London

The New Compensation Act - 1906 - Butler takes a tumble
The New Compensation Act - Butler " Heres a go. I m goin to break me leg" - a Butler is not unduly concerned at his tumble down the stairs to the wine cellar

Beware of the Bull - Man comes a cropper, even though he professes to be a Vegetarian! Date: 1906

Cover design, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Cover design, first instalment of the serial edition of the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, with illustrations by H K Browne, dated May 1849. 1849

Judi Dench as Ophelia and Coral Browne as Gertrude
Dame Judi Denchs professional stage debut as Ophelia with Coral Browne as Gertrude in Hamlet, produced by the London Old Vic Company. Date: 1957

Portrait of WR Browne, ImechE Secretary, 1878-1884. Date: circa 1884

Map of Africa, with travellers routes
Map of Africa, with the routes of the modern travellers, Parke, Browne and Le Vaillant. 1799

Frys chocolate
Group of excited people gazing into a shop window to look at a display of Frys chocolates. Artist: Tom Browne Date: 1908

New Compensation Act - 1906 - Stableboy kicked in stable
" The New Compensation Act" - " Hurroo! Oim kicked to Death, Be Gob!" - a Yokel Stable Lad is not unduly concerned at being kicked against the stable wall

Advertisement for Chlorodyne
An advertisement for Dr J Collis Brownes Chlorodyne, the best and surest remedy for all kinds of conditions, including coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, spasms

Polo Cartoon by Tom Browne
Humorous Polo illustration for a comic postcard by Tom Browne. The gentleman player in the red seemingly needs to work on his mallet control! circa 1905

Union Workhouse, Vanbrugh Hill, Greenwich, London
An architects aerial view of the Greenwich Union workhouse, erected in 1840 at Vanbrugh Hill, Greenwich, south east London, to a design by R.P. Browne

London Trade Card - William Browne, Fishing Tackle, at the sign of the Fish, Black Horse Alley, near Fleet Bridge. 18th century

Home Sweet Home - A Young wife invites her family to stay
Home Sweet Home - A pretty young wife invites her family (Ma, Pa and Sister Gertie - from Scotland)to stay, to the alarm of her careworn older husband, already holding the babies! Date: circa 1905

Illustration, Mending the Dolls Head. circa 1900s

Caricature of Dr Lennox Browne, ENT specialist
Caricature of Dr Lennox Browne (1841-1902), Ear, Nose and Throat specialist whose patients included actors and singers. 1881

Henrietta Vcts. Dillon
HENRIETTA Viscountess DILLON (nee Browne) wife of Henry Augustus, 13th Viscount. Date: ? - 1862

Felicia Dorothea Hemans
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS nee BROWNE English poet of light Romantic lyrics Date: 1793 - 1835

Sir Samuel Browne / V Fair
SIR SAMUEL BROWNE Military Date: 1824 - 1901

Flying kites
Young boy and girl in a field with an older sister learning to fly their kites. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1922

Fruit seller
Young boy dressed as a greengrocer selling fruit door-to-door. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1922

There must be a way - Music Sheet Cover, words and music by Sammy Gallop, David Saxon and Robert Cook, featured and broadcast by Judy Shirley and Sam Browne

Cover design, Master Humphreys Clock, a weekly periodical edited and written by Charles Dickens, published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841

Young girl with a hoop
Come and play. Pretty young girl posing with her wooden hoop. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1922

Theres no boat like a rowboat - Music Sheet Cover, words and music by Irving Gordon and featured an broadcast by Sam Browne and Ken Mackintosh

Fun of the Fayre by John Hastings Turner
Promotional postcard of programme for Charles B Cochrans Fun of the Fayre by John Hastings Turner, with music by Augustus Turner

Please Teacher by K R G Browne, R P Weston & Bert Lee
Promotional postcard for Please Teacher by K. R. G. Browne, R. P. Weston and Bert Lee; music Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge. First produced at the London Hippodrome, 2nd October 1935

The Harbour Lights by George R Sims
Promotional postcard for Harbour Lights by George R. Sims. First produced at the Adelphi Theatre, 23rd December 1885. Lt. Kingsley is holding Lina Nelson, first played by Jessica Milward

Piccadilly Circus - midnight by Tom Browne
Piccadilly Circus pictured at midnight during the Edwardian era by the artist Tom Browne with all human life converging on the junction with the statue of Eros rising above in the background

A Third-Rate Night Club by Tom Browne
A third-rate night club in London with various women in evening dress taking to the floor with an assortment of quite frankly third-rate men. Date: 1929

Jimmys restaurant, Edwardian London
Closing time (12:30am) at Jimmys a fashionable restaurant in London during the Edwardian era, pictured by Tom Browne. Date: 1929

Cover design, Riviera Celebrities, containing sketches from life by Leo Browne, with a preface by E Phillips Oppenheim, and text by Ysabel De Witte. Date: 1925

Colour poster - British Military
Making his Mouth Water, 1899. Colour photolithograph reproducing a poster advertising Wright & Greig Ltd, Distillers, Glasgow, Roderick Dhu Whisky, made by Tom Browne and Co

Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705-1760) - barrister, poet - author of some imitations of works by Swift and Pope. Date: circa 1750

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) - English physician and author on topics relating to medicine, religion and science. Date: circa 1660

Title page - frontispiece - Portrait of John Browne
Title page and frontispiece of work - Portrait of John Browne Source: Myographia nova, or, A graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection by Browne, John

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