Characters Collection (page 13)

Nursemaid and Girl 1884
Margery is woken up by the nursemaid after dreaming about all her favourite nursery rhyme characters

Nursery rhyme heroes at a table
Margery and Freddy meet two more of their nursery rhyme heroes, the King and Queen of Hearts, sitting at a table

Freddy and Margery, brother and sister
Freddy and Margery discuss the characters in the nursery stories they have been reading

Goethe with Faust Chars
JOHANN WOLFGANG von GOETHE German writer, with the characters in his play, Faust

Commissionaire Petherick
London characters: The commissionaire, who performs much the same functions as the couriers of the 21st century

Shoeblack (Petherick)
London characters: a SHOEBLACK wearing the uniform of the London Shoeblack brigade, who polish gentlemens boots in the filthy streets of London

Housemaid (Petherick)
London characters: a HOUSEMAID uses her broom to sweep the front steps of the house where she is employed

Chimneysweep (Petherick)
London characters: the CHIMNEY SWEEP walks the streets with his brushes, offering his services - for every home is heated with coal fires which clog the chimneys with soot

Cats Meat Man / Petherick
London characters: one day they will enjoy Whiskas and Felix, but for now Londons feline population must manage on meat freshly cut by the itinerant CATS MEAT MAN

Advert / Bill Poster 1880
London characters: the BILL POSTER pastes his poster on a hoarding - often, over a competitors advertisement. - especially at election time

Glinka / Ruslan & L - 3
Costumes for the two principal characters- Ruslan, a warrior, and Lyudmila, daughter of the Grand Duke: they are betrothed in Act One, and are united in Act Five after a deal of fuss

Printing Blocks 1760S
How printing blocks are built up from individual characters, each one placed by the compositor, manually

Greek Satyr Play
Characters from a satyr play, featuring Dionysos and Ariadne, represented on a terracotta fragment

LE BOEUF SUR LE TOIT - with characters created by Cocteau and a decor by Dufy

Divining from Characters
A Chinese fortune teller uses the TCHE TSE method of divining from characters

Tennyson Fun
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON the Poet Laureate serenading the characters from his poems, including the Lady of Shalott, floating by in her boat

Commedia Dell arte
Characters of the Commedia

Capricorn / Furness
The Modern Zodiac: An Artists Almanac of English Society. Scenes of the month include snowballing, waits singing carols, pantomime characters, relations, gifts & parties

Characterful Faces
A selection of unsavoury characters showing different emotions including ruthlessness & loathing. A toothless old hag, a drunkard, a baby & an axeman are shown

English Versus French
Two polite nations: English versus French at the time of the Napoleonic Wars

Paul Puff & Jerry Sneak
Paul Puff, presumably a puffed-up fellow; and Jerry Sneak, a henpecked husband, a coward

Don Quixote & Sancho
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Shakespeare / Characters
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English dramatist and poet shown in a rural setting with some of the characters from his plays

Puccini Trittico Costume
Costume designs for characters in each of the three plays in the triptych : 1. " Il Tabarro" 2. " Gianni Schicci" 3. " Suor Angelica"

Twelfth Night Amusements
Christmas Gambols and Twelfth Night Amusements -songs, ditties, characters and parlour games

Police Patrolling / Slum
The Bulls Eye - police, prudently patrolling in a group of three, shine the light on some suspicious characters

Scene from Shakespeares Alls Well That Ends Well
A scene from Shakespeares comedy (or problem play), Alls Well That Ends Well, in which Helena speaks to Bertram, Count of Rousillon. Helena is in love with him, but he does not care for her

Two carnival characters having fun
Two carnival characters in France, having fun

Carnival characters in Venice, Italy
Two carnival characters in costume in Venice, Italy

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping