Collector Collection (page 3)

William Fraser (Pelleg. )
SIR WILLIAM FRASER - Writer, statesman and collector. Date: 1826 - 1898

Ethel Gabain and a sitter
Ethel L鯮 tine Gabain (26 March 1883 30 January 1950), French-English artist. Gabain was a renowned painter and lithographer and among the founding members of the Senefelder Club

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Z, showing Zaccheus (Zacchaeus) climbing a tree in order to see Jesus. Date: circa 1860

Father Christmas and pudding on a Christmas card, with two poems: The Collector, and The Pudding That Cut Away. Date: circa 1890s

C. Harris feeding Galapagos tortoises, 1898
Sailor and explorer Charles Harris was despatched to the Galapagos islands to collect giant tortoises for Walter Rothschild in 1897

Cartoon, Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Morland s, by James Gillray. A satire on the popularity of Morlands paintings, focusing on fat pigs, foolish donkeys and greedy dealers

Richard Payne Knight - British writer and antiquary
Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824), British writer, antiquary, scholar and book collector, best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery

Refuse collector at work on a Balham street, SW London. He is wearing a mortar board which someone has thrown away. Date: circa 1960s

Charles Roach Smith (1807-1890) was an antiquarian and amateur archaeologist, whose collection of antiquities found during London excavations or dredging of the Thames formed his Museum of London

Women War Work WW1 Ticket Collector
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

Collector of old clothes
Old cloaths. Street trader. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Womens Work WW1 Fare lady. Lady ticket collector on the bus or tram described as The war-time fare Lady. Date: circa 1918

Woman Ticket Collector WW1. Young lady inspecting railway tickets at the train station with queue of admiring men, one in uniform. Captioned, Held up for Inspection. Date: circa 1916

Lady Dorothy Nevill (1826 - 1913), English writer, hostess, horticulturist and plant collector

Woman railway officials on the Underground, WW1
Two women in uniform working on the London Underground during the First World War in jobs which were previously carried out by men. Date: 1914-1918

Bystander- Military officer collecting images of Gaby Deslys
A military officer, second in command, collecting images of the actress Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), as a way of improving the morale while fighting abroad. Date: 1916

William Beard Banwell (1772 1868), British bone collector Date: 1841

A female ticket collector at platform five in a London train station

Collection of TV Rental
Collection of TV rental from two housewives Date: 1930s

Ernest Cognacq Photo
ERNEST COGNACQ Paris shopkeeper who with his wife Louise Jay founded the Samaritaine department store : art collector and philanthropist photo 1912. Date: 1839 - 1928

Camille Groult Photo
CAMILLE GROULT French industrialist, art patron and collector of French and English art, photographed in 1903. Date: 1837 - 1908

Will. Thompson Walters
WILLIAM THOMPSON WALTERS American businessman and art collector Date: 1820 - 1894

Robert Vernon
ROBERT VERNON art collector with his spaniel Date: 1774 - 1849

Robert Udney
ROBERT UDNEY Scottish merchant and art collector Date: 1740 - 1802

JOHN TIMBS journalist and writer, collector of curious and eccentric facts Date: 1801 - 1875

Mark Masterman Sykes
Sir MARK MASTERMAN SYKES collector of books and prints Date: 1771 - 1823

Charles Earl Sunderland
CHARLES SPENCER, third earl of SUNDERLAND statesman and book collector Date: 1674 - 1722

Third Duke Roxburghe
JOHN KER, third duke of ROXBURGHE statesman and book collector Date: 1740 - 1804

Samuel Purchas - 1
SAMUEL PURCHAS Churchman, and collector of travelers tales in his celebrated Purchas his Pilgrimage. Date: 1575 - 1626

Charles Rogers
CHARLES ROGERS art collector and writer Date: 1711 - 1784

Samuel Purchas - 2
SAMUEL PURCHAS Churchman, and collector of travelers tales in his celebrated Purchas his Pilgrimage. Date: 1575 - 1626

Sir Thomas Parkyns
SIR THOMAS PARKYNS wrestling enthusiast and collector of coffins... Date: 1664 - 1741

Nathaniel Oldham
NATHANIEL OLDHAM antiquary, extravagant collector of curiosities depicted in hunting mode, with inquisitive or apprehensive dog. Date: flourished 1740

Michel De Marolles
MICHEL DE MAROLLES, abbe de Villeloin French churchman, scholar and collector of prints Date: 1600 - 1681

Aln. Baron Londesborough
ALBERT DENISON, first baron LONDESBOROUGH antiquarian, collector and archeologist with a special interest in tumuli. Date: 1805 - 1860

Samuel Cunliffe Lister
SAMUEL CUNLIFFE LISTER, first baron Masham English inventor of textile machinery at Bradford, Yorkshire, art collector and philanthropist. Date: 1815 - 1906

JOHN JONES Tailor and art collector Date: 1800 - 1882

John Taylor Johnston
JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON American railway magnate and art collector. Date: 1820 - 1893

Japan - Geisha with crickets in a small cage. Date: circa 1905

Gentleman storming out of a meeting with the Taxman
Gentleman storming out of a meeting with a (rather odious and bureaucratic-looking Taxman - " And Thats That!" Date: circa 1940s

18, 000 farthings for London Slum Childrens Breakfasts
18, 000 farthings collected in 1907 by R Arnold of 15 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent for the charitable purchase of London Slum Childrens Breakfasts. Date: 1907

The Octroi - Sketch in Paris by Phil May. The Octroi was a local consumption tax, so this gentleman is seemingly the tax collector. Date: 1898

Bailiff very well treated
Bailiff (who has been very well treated and settled with) - " Well good-bye, Sir. See you again soon, Sir, I ope!" Date: 1902

James Orrock - landscape painter and watercolour
Brother Brushes - Portrait drawing by Phil May of James Orrock (1829-1913) - Scottish landscape painter, watercolourist and art collector. Originally qualified as a dentist

Mussel Collectors by Karl Daubigny (1846-1886). Date: 1867

Athene blewitti, forest owlet
Donated to the Museum in 1954 by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, it was discovered that he had in fact stolen the specimen from the Museum and changed its label

Letter from A. R. Wallace to his mother, 28 May 1854
Page 2 of a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his mother about sending beetles to his agent Mr Stevens, future travel plans and his daily routine as a collector, dated May 1854

Bubalus bubalis, Indian water buffalo
These are the largest Indian water buffalo horns ever recorded, each almost 2 metres long

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