Character Collection (page 20)

Dressing doll. Little Dutch Girl
The Little Dutch Girl. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the doll character. Date: 1921

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

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

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

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

Dressing doll. Robin Hood
Robin Hood. 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 Jack Horner. 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 Bo-Peep. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

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

John Law (1671 A?i? 1729). Scottish economist. Dutch satiri
John Law (1671A?i?1729). Scottish economist. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV. In 1716 Law established the Banque G?n?rale in France, a private bank

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. 14th C. Engraving by Gusta
Divine Comedy. Epic poem written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) between 1308 and his death in 1321. Paradiso Canto III. Piccarda Donati and souls whose vows had been broken

Hussein Awni pasha (1819 1876). Was a Turkish general and statesman. Engraving by Rico. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1876. Colored

Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). Was a Flemish Baroque artist. Self Portrait, ca 1621. Oil on canvas. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Pietro Perugino (1446 / 1450A?i?1523). Italian Renaissance pa
Pietro Perugino (1446/1450A?i?1523), born Pietro Vannucci. Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school. High Renaissance. The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard

Max Hoffmann (1869 A?o??n?1927). Was a German officer and military strategist during World War I. He is regarded as one of the finest staff officers of the imperial period. Engraving by Klose

Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768 -1854). Was a Swiss jurist. Engraving by H. Gedam. Universal History, 1885. Colored

Panayot Ivanov Hitov (1830 A?o??n? 1918). Was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and voivode. Engraving. The Spanish and American illustration, 1876. Colored

Trajan (53 AD-117 AD). Roman Emperor. Bust
Trajan (53 AD-117 AD). Was Roman Emperor from 98 AD until his death. Bust shows him with the civic crown, sword belt and aegis (a divine weapon). Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Nero (37 A?i? 68). Was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68. Bust
Nero (37 A?i? 68). Was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great uncle Claudius. Bust. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Votive relief for the shepherd god. About 160 AD. Two figures of Pan in a grotto with an altar and a tree between them, above three nymphs, Hermes and a cult pillar of Hecate. Glyptothek. Munich

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Statue. University of Pavia. Italy

Roman Art. Togatus. Restored as Augustus. Emperor (27 B. C
Roman Art. Togatus. Restored as Augustus. First Roman Emperor (27 B.C. -14 A.D.). Sculpture. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Mr Punch. 19th century

Caricature of the actor Alfred Maltby, in the role of Mr Dawson in the play Betsy by F C Burnand. circa 1880s

Japanese sake barrels in Yoyogi Park, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan

The lifesaving Mermaid of Bognor Regis, Mary Wheatland
Mary Wheatland (1835-1924) - a well known Bognor Regis Character, a woman who hired bathing machines from the east of the pier

Dolly Varden, character in Barnaby Rudge
Dolly Varden, a character in Barnaby Rudge, a novel by Charles Dickens. 1883

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, dogs eager for a walk
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Micky, Cracker and two other dogs eager for a walk, having spotted the signs. Date: 1927

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Bedlington terrier
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a Bedlington terrier. Date: 1927

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Micky and Cracker, an Irish Wolfhound and a Bull Terrier. Seen here behind his desk, growing bored by the story about the monkey. Date: 1927

Laughing old man
A laughing old man with a wart on his nose, a fuzzy beard and blacked-out teeth. Perhaps not a real tramp, but an actor wearing makeup? Date: circa 1960s

Bruce Bairnsfather in his Sunbeam with Old Bill mascot
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, famous for his cartoons of trench humour in The Bystander during the First World War seen at the wheel of his Sunbeam car with an aluminium car mascot in the shape of

Anatomy of the Human Body. Persian manuscript (16th c.) illustrating the muscles and nervous system in a male body in a squatting position. Persian art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE

Advertisement for Old Bill car mascot, 1920
Advertisement for the " Old Bill" car mascot, exclusively sold by Smith of Motor Accessories fame. Old Bill was the soldier character created by the cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in

Eve, columnist for The Tatler magazine
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine who was the alter-ego of Olivia Maitland-Davidson. Eve first appeared in The Tatler on 20 May 1914 (pictured here)

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill
Masthead design for a post-war edition of the Bystander magazine featuring one of its main stars the cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather

Hon. Sylvia Coke by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Sylvia (or Silvia) Beatrice Coke (1909-2005) by Madame Yevonde. She was the elder daughter of Viscount Coke (Thomas William Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester)

Dr Frederick L H Willis, American spiritualist and physician
Dr Frederick Llewellyn Hovey Willis (1830-1914), American spiritualist minister and physician. He grew up in the same household as Louisa May Alcott and her family

Whos Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by Lawson Wood
Humorous colour illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his orange utan character, Gran pop sliding away on some ice from the shadow of a wolf. Appropriately, he is accompanied by three little pigs

Portia by Henry Woods
The character of Portia disguised as a lawyer from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare by Henry Woods (1846-1921), part of a series of Shakespearean heroines

Repeating Pattern - Cinderella Story - green background
Repeating Pattern - Characters from the story of Cinderella (in white silhouette on a green background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

Repeating Pattern - Cinderella Story - yellow background
Repeating Pattern - Characters from the story of Cinderella (in white silhouette on a yellow background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

Irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair
A study of an irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair. He may have had a little too much to drink. Date: 1894

Street Vendor selling Nuts to Gentleman with a Simian Visage
Street Vendor cheekily offering the sale of some nuts to a diminutive Gentleman with a distinctive Simian visage!! Date: 1899

The study of an Old Man in the Vale of Years by Phil May - with associated quotation from Sonnet 73, one of William Shakespeares most famous sonnets, focusing upon the theme of old age. Date: 1898

Yemen - Sanaa - Multi-storey decorated Houses
The old city of Sana a, Yemen. A UNESCO World Heritage Site with a distinctive visual character due its unique architectural characteristics

The Guitarist, by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760). A young woman plays a guitar, accompanied by two Harlequins, possibly a scene from the Commedia dell Arte

Sir George Frampton in studio with Peter Pan statue
Sir George Frampton pictured in his studio with a sculpture of Peter Pan, the famous fictional creation of J. M. Barrie. The sculpture was erected in Kensington Gardens on 1 May 1912

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