Character Collection (page 17)

H B Irving as two characters in The Lyons Mail, Manchester
H B Irving as two characters in The Lyons Mail, Lesurques and Dubosc, at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. circa 1900s

H B Irving as two characters in The Lyons Mail, Newcastle
H B Irving as two characters, Lesurques and Dubosc, in The Lyons Mail, at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle-on-Tyne. circa 1900s

George Alexander as Francois Villon in If I Were King. circa 1900s

French Leave, Prince of Wales Theatre, Grimsby, depicting the character Lieutenant Harry Graham. 1921

Buffalo Bills Colonel W F Cody

The Brass Bottle, a farcical play by F Anstey, at the Pleasure Gardens Theatre, Folkestone, previously at The Vaudeville Theatre, Mr Arthur Hardys Company

Becky Sharp, a play, Lyceum Theatre, Ipswich
Becky Sharp, a play based on Thackerays novel, Vanity Fair, at the Lyceum Theatre, Ipswich, previously at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London

Portrait of an old woman, Venice, Italy
Portrait of an old woman waiting for a vaporetto in Venice, Italy. Date: 2010

Ragged boatman, Sri Lanka
Barefoot, ragged, skinny boatman wearing big floppy cap sits on a beached fishing boat on the beach at Galle, Sri Lanka Date: 1994

Poda, a Sri Lankan pole fisherman, or stilt fisherman, portrait head and shoulders. He and his family were almost certainly killed in the tsumani of 2004 Date: 1994

Farmer, Staffordshire
Portrait of a farm worker in Staffordshire in winter. He has a craggy face, a large nose and wears a woolly hat pulled down over his ears Date: 1988

Fisherman, cloth cap, Costa del Sol
Fisherman in cloth cap on beach, Costa Del Sol, Spain. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Mr Tingle puzzled farmer
An elderly farmer removes his cloth cap and scratches his head in bewilderment as he looks at the camera at a sheep sale in Abergavenny Market, Wales, UK. His name was Mr Tingle Date: circa 1970

Whalers slice open their catch and find Jonah !! Date: circa 1910

Lands End, Cornwall - Dr Syntax rock - bearing a remarkable similarity to the profile of the comic character created by William Combe and the cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson in 1812. Date: circa 1907

Jean-Gaspard Deburau, mime artist, as Pierrot
Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796-1846), Bohemian-French mime artist, in his famous character of Pierrot. Or possibly his son Jean-Charles Deburau (1829-1873)

Olivia, by Edmund Blair Leighton (from Twelfth Night). 1888

D Ye Ken John Peel in his Coat so Grey by Joseph Simpson
John Peel (1776? 13 November 1854), English huntsman and the subject of the nineteenth century song D ye ken John Peel - " ken" meaning to be aware of or to know in some dialects of

Dressing doll. Dolly Dimple
Dolly Dimple. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the doll character. Date: 1921

Dressing doll. Mary Mary Quite Contrary. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Dressing doll. Little Miss Muffett. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Strip tease card game - Joker card, featuring the four heads of the Theatre Manager, the exotic peformer, the prosecution barrister and the prude, Miss Prim

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Shylock
William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The Merchant of Venice. Shylock. Engraving. Colored

Albrecht Durer ((1471 A?i? 1528). Self-Portrait (1500)
Albrecht Durer ((1471 A?i? 1528) German painter. Self-Portrait (1500). Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Emperor Septemus Severus (193-211 AD). Bust
Septimius Severus (145-211), also known as Severus. Roman Emperor from 193-211. Born in Leptis Manga, province of Africa. Dynasty, Severan

Marcus Aurelius (121-180). Roman Emperor. Bust
Marcus Aurelius (121-180). Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. Bust. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Sulla. Head from the statue of a man. About 20 BC
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 BC-78 BC). known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as that of dictator

Statue of a Silenus. Roman sculpture after a model of about
Greek art. Niche. Statue of a Silenus (old satyr). Roman sculpture after a model of about 330 BC. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany. Europe

Barberini Faun. A sleeping satyr. About 220 BC. Greek baroq
Greek art. Barberini Faun. A sleeping satyr. About 220 BC. Probably stood in a sanctuary of Dionysus and was later brought to gardens on the banks of the Tiber. Greek baroque. Roman copy. Glyptothek

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 1516). The Portrait of Doge Leon
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 1516). Italian Renaissance painter. The Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521. 1501. National Gallery. London. England

Francesco Donato, Doge of Venice from 1545 to 1553. Portrait
Francesco Donato was the Doge of Venice from 1545 to 1553. Portrait by David Teniers II or David Teniers the younger(1610-1690), Flemish artist. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Minoan art. Crete. Phaistos Disc, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium B.C.). Side A. Fired clay

London life front cover - The Playgirl Club
Front cover of London Life magazine with portraits of six women who featured in that issues article about the capitals playgirls - a term used by the magazine to describe women who are very strictly

WW1 - Cartoon - German gun Big Bertha in action
WW1 - A cartoon big lady personifying the German gun known as Big Bertha, firing from Calais at Dover. Date: 1918

Ebers papyrus. ca. 1500 BC. Ancient Egypt. Amenhotep Is reign. 18th Dynasty. One of the first treatises on medicine written in human history. Hieratic, hieroglyphic writing. GERMANY. SAXONY. Leipzig

Rula Lenska filming Robin of Sherwood, Cornwall
Rula Lenska in the character of Morgwyn of Ravenscar, filming the TV series Robin of Sherwood near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Date: 1980s

Nanette Newman and Michael Culver on location in Cornwall
The actress Nanette Newman on location near Lands End, Cornwall, with the actor Michael Culver, in the roles of the Newlyn School artists Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947)

Maude Fealy, actress, in the role of a nun
Maude Fealy (Maude Mary Hawk, 1883-1971), American stage and film actress, seen here in the role of a nun. Date: early 20th century

Repeating Pattern - Alice in Wonderland characters. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Trotty Veck and his daughter Meg - Charles Dickens
Trotty Veck And His Daughter Meg - short story by Charles Dickens in The Chimes Date: circa 1910s

Oliver Twist asks for more - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist asks for more - from Oliver Tiwst by Charles Dickens. Date: circa 1910s

The Burial of Atala by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824). Atala is an early novella by Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, first published in 1801

Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrow
Visitor to Dottieville Lunatic Asylum which is undergoing structural improvements (to harmless lunatic who is extremely busy wheeling a barrow upside down)

Despairing man with his head in his hands
" The Mind and visage oft are things apart; a smiling face oft masks a breaking heart." - character study by Phil May of a man in the deepest throes of despair. Date: circa 1890s

Pierrot and Harlequin, by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760). A scene from the Commedia dell Arte, in which Pierrot and Harlequin protect the honour of the doctors daughter

London Life front cover - Geraldine Chaplin at Tonya
Front cover of London Life magazine, 4th/10th December 1965 featuring the actress Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944), daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O Neill

Scaramouche, character of the Commedia dell Arte

Metropolitan Police officers teaching road safety to children. The man in the white outfit with traffic lights on his front is Safety Sam

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