Chickens Gallery

An Ideal Home No. IV. Top-Floor Chicken Farm by William Heat

The beauty and simplicity of this solution of the problem of how to keep chickens in the top floor of the bijou flat will appeal to readers who like to get as much as possible for their rent. The fourth in the series of the Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson. The illustrations from The Sketch depict ingenious space creating ideas for the spatially challenged home. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

© Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Andalusian chickens

Andalusian chickens, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by H. Leworthy. Cock won first prize at Barnstaple 1871 and hen first prize at Barnstaple 1872. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by J.W. Ludlow from Lewis Wright's The Illustrated Book of Poultry, Cassell, London, 1890

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Woman in canary yellow dress with amber buttons

Woman in canary yellow dress with amber buttons, with hat and walking cane. Tailleur de petit drap canari garni de boutons d'ambre clair. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Victor Lhuer from Tommaso Antongini's Journal des Dames et des Modes, Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames, Paris, 1914

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