Chair Collection

Dickens / Empty Chair
HIS HOME AT GADSHILL His desk and empty chair after his death, dated 9 June 1870

William Pitt the Younger addressing Parliament
William Pitt (the Younger) addressing the House of Commons

The Two Friends / Aldin
Illustration entitled Two Friends by Cecil Aldin depicting two small dogs, one a West Highland Terrier, together on a chair

Victorian scrap - dentist pulling a tooth. late 19th century

Map of the Coronation ritual within Westminster Abbey
A panoramic view inside Westminster Abbey to show the position, movements and sequence of ceremonies (indicated by numbers) of the Coronation ceremony of King George VI. Date: 1937

The Zen priest Ikkyu Osho. Date: circa 18th century

Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dog
Unusual Friends - Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dog. 1960s

Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591). Engraving. Colored
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591). Spanish friar of DIscalced Carmelite Order. Engraving. Colored

Military police Airedale dog at Aldershot
A military police Airedale dog at Aldershot, with his trainer

RMS Mauretania, First Class Lounge Date: circa 1910s

Lina Cavalieri, Italian opera singer and actress
Natalina (Lina) Cavalieri (1874-1944), Italian operatic soprano and actress. circa 1900

Trinity College of Music, Mandeville Place, London -- Entrance Hall, showing main staircase leading upwards. circa 1922

Alice in Wonderland, Alice in the White Rabbits house. Date: early 20th century

Cause & Effect - dentist cartoon by H. M. Bateman
Cause and Effect - or, how two moods can change places. A dental patient enters a surgery clearly terrified at what lies ahead of him, but such is his struggle

Eric Liddell celebrating his Olympic win at Edinburgh Univer
Eric Liddell, the 400m gold medallist at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, crowned and chaired at Edinburgh University where he had studied science

Queen Elizabeth II is crowned
The moment during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II where the Archbishop of Canterbury places St Edwards crown on the Queens head. Date: 1953

Irish gentleman in a whisky bar in Dublin prison, 1821
Irish gentleman in Croftons whisky and beer bar in Dublin prison, 1821. Bankrupt Brian Boru with his friends in the taproom drinking with criminals and debtors. The Tap in Sheriffs Prison

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
General view of the State Procession down the Nave led by H. M. The Queen, flanked by her Maids of Honour after the Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey on June 2nd 1953. 1953

Gebrauchsgraphik front cover April 1930
Front cover of Gebrauchsgraphik, the journal of international advertising art featuring an elegant woman in a black suit and hat sitting in a whiteh tub chair

Empire Marketing Board poster - Gibraltar
Empire Marketing Board poster showing a family on the deck of a ship which is sailing close to the rock of Gibraltar

Helen Keller with her Great Dane
Helen Keller (1880-1968) born blind deaf mute. Thanks to her governess she overcame these handicaps, studied and created in 1921 the American Foundation for the Blind. Pictured here on the S.S

Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair
Caricature of the naturalist Charles Darwin in Vanity Fair Magazine, 1871

West End Hotel, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Veranda of the West End Hotel, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Date: circa 1920s

Mickie, the Irish Wolfhound, in a chair
Study of Mickie, Cecil Aldins Irish Wolfhound, with his head resting on the arm of a chair. Date: 1932

Woman reading a book
A beautiful young woman with blonde hair and red lipsticked lips, wears a lilac gown with sky blue fur trim. She reclines in her favourite chair to read her book. 1937

Silhouette of men in a pub
The Lads of the Village -- silhouette of men enjoying a drink of beer in their local pub. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Victorian woman (Polhill-Turner family)
An upper class Victorian woman, probably a member of the Polhill-Turner family of Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire. Seen here in a studio photograph, leaning on the back of a chair

A 1950s Family Living Room
A classic nuclear family in their living room, the children playing with a train set, the Father reading his book or magazine in a comfy chair

Sir Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (1857-1934), English composer. He composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies, instrumental concertos, and songs

Lady Houston D. B. E
DAME FANNY LUCY HOUSTON Adventuress and among the first five women to be made a Dame Commander of the British Empire. Pictured on board her steam yacht, Liberty

Knitting Sweetheart
Sassy wartime woman lounging in a chair knitting while a portrait of her boyfriend or husband smiles from the canvas

Streamlined Piece by David Wright, featuring a woman wearing a pale blue evening dress leaning against a chair. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during

We Gladstone / Pound / Mayal
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE English politician MP sitting in a chair

Ws Gilbert / Eglington
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT English playwright and collaborator with Sullivan

Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
(Theobald) Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot, regarded as the father of Irish republicanism

The Dentist by Sir John Lavery
Portrait of the well-known society dentist, Mr Conrad Ackner with Laverys wife, Hazel, Lady Lavery, in the dentists chair, her grip on the chairs arm clearly evident

Children in Varna Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
A large group of children on the corner of Varna Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Sketches of an Irish Wolfhound by Cecil Aldin
Two sketches of an Irish Wolfhound by Cecil Aldin -- probably his own dog Mickie. Date: 1939

Advert for Dewars White Label Scotch Whisky
No Faults The umpire and a tennis player having a drink of Dewars White Label Scotch Whisky, at the end of the match. 1937

Who will buy my sweet blooming lavender?
Old Street Cries -- Who will buy my sweet blooming lavender? 20th century

1950s living room
An up-to-date interior from a home in the 1950s, where all the items of furniture harmonise with each other (according to the writer of the accompanying article)

Workshop of a saddler and upholsterer
The workshop of a saddler and upholsterer, with finished items including trunks, bags and a chair (top right)

No News to Speak Of by David Wright featuring a glamorous, half-dressed woman lounging on a boudoir-style chair as she pens a letter

Westminster Abbey C18
In the tranquil street before the abbey and St Margarets church, a sedan chair passes, a cripple begs, fruit sellers and a porter ply their trade, a boy bowls his hoop

Dd home and Chair
Daniel Dunglass Home, Scottish-American medium, remains the most enigmatic of all spirit mediums, performing extraordinary feats which have never been explained

Browned Off by David Wright, showing a model seated with her legs over a chair. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician, seen here as a young man, sitting at a grand piano

Characterful old lady with her knitting
A characterful old lady sits in a chair, holding a few rows of knitting in front of her as she looks thoughtfully into the distance

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