Characters Collection (page 9)

Four cats with toothache on a New Year card, quoting from Charles Dickens characters (Sairey Gamp, Mrs Harris, Betsy Prig and Tiny Tim) -- Its best to grin and bear it! Date: circa 1890s

Sammys Bowery Follies, New York City, USA
Sammys Bowery Follies, Bowery, New York City, USA, showing the performers grouped together on stage. Date: 1944

Best room, the O Hanlon Pub, Shannon Bridge, Ireland - 1970s
The O Hanlon Couple 2. Best room, the O Hanlon Pub, Shannon Bridge Republic of Ireland - 1970s 1970s

Cartoon, Flemish Characters, by James Gillray. Showing a group of people entering a Belgian church on a Sunday. Date: 1793

Cartoon, Shakespeare Sacrificed; or the Offering to Avarice, by James Gillray. Showing Alderman John Boydell, an engraver and publisher, in the role of Prospero burning his books

WW1 - A Saving Grace
WW1 - An illustration personifying Britain as Little John Bull and Big John Bull. John Bull in his living room reading newspaper articles by Percy Scott and books by John Jellicoe

WW1 - Spoils of Romania and Austria denied her share
WW1 - An illustration portraying Germany after its take over Romania, and its betrayal against the their loyal allies Austria

All the worlds a stage. Featuring Shakespeare along with his stage characters. Artist: Henry Marriott Paget Date: circa 1905

Chinese flag, womens shoes, Porcelain Pagoda at Nanking (Nanjing).. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Bath Characters by Edouart - card players
The Card Players in silhouette by Edouart - Mrs Newnham, aged 80 years of 7 Edgar Buildings, and Miss Wilkinson, taken at Bath, 1st April 1827. Date: 1827

Bath Characters by Edouart - John Roebuck and John Liston
Silhouettes of John Roebuck Esq, MP for Bath, nicknamed Old Tearum in a portrait taken by Edouart at Cheltenham on 2 September 1829

Bath Characters by Edouart - Mr John Basnet
Mr C. H. Basnet, architect, and his wife, Mrs R. Basnet pictured in silhouette by the artist Edouart on 3rd April 1827, one of a series of Bath characters. Date: 1827

Bath Characters by Edouart - Dr Gaitskell
Dr. Gaitskell, one of the well-known practitioners in Bath, a near neighbour of Sir Thomas Lawrence in Alfred Street. One of a series of Bath characters taken by the silhouette artist

Bath Characters by Edouart - George Cary, porter
George Cary, porter at Prices auction room where the silhouette Auguste Edouart lodged at Bath. Taken on April 4th, 1827 - one of a series of Bath characters taken by Edouart between 1826-7

Bath Characters by Edouart - mat seller
The itinerant mat seller in Bath, one of a series of Bath characters taken by the silhouette artist, Auguste Edouart in Bath between 1826-7. Date: 1827

Bath Characters by Edouart - Thomas McDermott
Thomas McDermott, a native of County Cavan, Northern Ireland, who was born without hands or feet, 1793. Inventor and manufacturer of fancy flower vases

Bath Characters by Edouart
Ann Arter, a fruit woman of bath (left) and Elizabeth Smith, 63 years of age, Scotch woman, soldiers widow. Sold matches for forty years

Isabella Lucas, hawker of tin-wear good, Edouart silhouette
Isabella Lucas, aged 36 year, born in Bath. Hawker of tin-wear goods. Daughter of Elizabeth Smith, the soldiers widow. One of a series of silhouettes of characters in Bath by Edouart. Date: 1826

Pygmalion drawn by Tony Sarg
Scenes from Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw which opened at His Majestys Theatre in London on 11 April 1914. The sketches drawn by Tony Sarg show the various characters including Mrs

Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion
Edmund Gurney in the role of Alfred Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion which first opened in London on 11 April 1914 starring Mrs Patrick Campbell and Sir Herbert Tree as Eliza Doolittle

Silhouettes for classroom decoration by H. L. Oakley
Silhouettes for classroom decoration by H.L. Oakley, in The Teachers World, 2 September 1927. The subjects illustrated are Literature, History and Geography. Date: circa 1920s

Fragments Reach the Stage
" Fragments" Reach the Stage A " Bairnsfather" duologue in " Half-Past Eight" Sketches of a scene from the revue, " Half-Past Eight" at the Comedy Theatre

Theater scene with two women consult a witch. The three characters wear masks. Mosaic of Dioscorides of Samos, 1st B.C. Proceeds from Villa del Cicerone. Roman art. Mosaic. ITALY. CAMPANIA. Naples

Assyrian-Babylonian tablet with cuneiform characters. Purchasing contract. 2000 B.C. Babylonian art. Terra-cotta. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Como. Civic Museum

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill by Bruce Bairnsfather
Masthead of The Bystander magazine featuring characters on a London tube train (or bus?) drawn by some of the magazines most regular artistic contributors

Old Bill in Mesopotamia, Nobodies Concert, WW1
A leading member of " The Nobodies" Concert Party for entertaining troops in Mesopotamia, impersonating Old Bill the lead character in the popular cartoons of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in

A German Old Bill
A German prisoner of war, working on a farm near Shortwick, Chester, is identified as being a dead ringer for Old Bill, the cartoon soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The

Bruce Bairnsfather releases - WW1 film cartoon
The Military Cross a pulsating military drama in two reels. Humorous pictorial trailer for a possible war film imagined by Bystander cartoonist, Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. Date: 1917

The Cast of the Better Ole - Bruce Bairnsfather play, WW1
Arthur Bourchier (centre) and cast pose in costume at the time they were playing in The Better Ole at the Oxford Theatre, London which was based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather published in The

The Hospital Nurse, WW1
A nurse from a military hospital during the First World War, one of a series of character sketches exhibited by photographer F. J

Third act of the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A scene from the third act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand. Lucien Guitry plays the cockerel Chantecler, the eponymous hero of the play. Date: 1910

Scenes from the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A page from Femina magazine, showing scenes from the first and second act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand

Seeing themselves as Bairnsfather sees them
A homage to the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, drawn by an amateur soldier artist, Major D. de la C. Ray

Eileen Molyneux as Eve from The Tatler on film
Eileen Molyneux (1893-1962), actress, pictured in 1918, in character, when she had been chosen to star in a series of twelve silent comedy films, called The Adventures of Eve

Sefton fabrics featuring Eve, 1918
Advertisement for Sefton Fabrics, publicising their new materials featuring designs by Annie Fish and Rillette as well as other, unspecified but well known artists

Eve charms and bracelet, WW1 jewellery
Advertisement for the Eve charm, based on the Tatler gossip columnist illustrated by Fish. Charms of various designs were popular gifts to exchange during the First World War

Eve of The Tatler in the revue, Tina at the Adelphi, WW1
Actresses, including Phyllis Dare, playing Eve, the fictional lead columnist, drawn by Annie Fish for The Tatler magazine

Cecil Aldin and some of the characters from The Happy Family
Cecil Aldin (1870-1935), sporting artist, illustrator and Master of the South Berkshire Foxhounds pictured with two little characters from The Happy Family

Toy Theatre
Classic pantomime characters such as Clown, Pantaloon and Harlequin jostle with a dog musician, a dog cart, Mr & Mrs Dashaway and Mr Doublesight to form a production of Harlequin Jack Sheppard. c

Old Bill lookalike
Mr Samuel Birkenshaw, of 123, Eldon Street, Oldham, the winner of an Old Bill lookalike competition run by The Bystander. Old Bill was the central cartoon character created by Captain Bruce

David Copperfield travels to London
A guard helps the young David Copperfield climb to his seat on the roof of a stagecoach for his journey to London, where I found myself wedged between two stout gentlemen. Date: 1937

Kensitas cigarettes advert featuring Old Bill
World War One advertisement for Kensitas cigarettes featuring the character Old Bill, from the Bystander cartoons by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

The Better Ole at the Oxford Theatre Arthur Bourchier
Arthur Bourchier (1863-1927), English actor, pictured in the role of Old Bill in The Better Ole, at the Oxford Theatre London in 1917

The Better Ole at the Oxford Theatre in 1917
Sketches taken from the musical The Better Ole by Bystander cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, staged at the Oxford Theatre (formerly the Oxford Musical Hall)

A Dowager during the London Season
Sketch of a dowager, one of the cliched characters of the traditional London Season, perhaps acting as a chaperone and peering through her lorgnette

Characters in High Life, c. 1796. Although one of the women is much shorter than the other, she makes up for it in the height of the feathers she wears in her turban

Shop scene in China
Interior of a shop in northern China with murals on the walls and statues of gods, possibly? Date: C.1911

Sketches from The Mikado at the Savoy Theatre
Illustrations of characters from the Gibert and Sullivan opera The Mikado. Date: 4th April 1885

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