Consulting Collection

The Loss Book at Lloyds of London, 1877
Engraving showing a group of Lloyds underwriters consulting the Loss Book in their offices, after a bad spell of storms in the winter of 1876-7

Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris
The neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in a consulting room of the mental hospital Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. Patients wait for treatment with an electric current. Date: 1885

WW2 - Inside A Reconnaissance Plane
A photograph portraying a British WW2 Royal Air Force pilot consulting the sergeant observer while flying over enemy territory in a reconnaissance plane. Date: circa 1940s

Brutus consulting Cato Date: early 19th century

Construction of the Queensway Mersey Tunnel
The Queensway tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. Construction began in 1925

Sir William Henry White, British naval architect
Sir William Henry White (1845-1913), British naval architect, warship designer and Chief Constructor at the Admiralty. In his retirement he was consulting architect in the design of the Cunard liner

Satirical cartoon, A Senatus Consultum. Napoleon is making his will and consulting the Devil about his fate. The Devil carries a flaming plaque: Death Bonaparte Death'

English gentleman consulting a somniloquist, 18th century
English gentleman consulting a somniloquist in his chambers, 18th century. The sleeping fortune teller lies in a bed in a room decorated with crocodile skin, Egyptian figures and incense burners

Customs inspectors opening luggage at the border, 18th century. Searched by the Douaniers at the French frontiers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson

PARANORMAL / MAGIC
A magicians consulting room, original William Hogarth Date: 17th Century

British and American soldiers with map, France, WW1
British and American soldiers consulting a map on a road near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Matania as consultant on the film, Susie in the Bath
The Italian-born artist, Fortunino Matania, leading illustrator for The Sphere magazine, pictured giving professional hints to actor Gene Gerrard on the set of the new John Stafford film

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916

Priests consulting the omens in Classical Rome

Andre Dupin - 5
ANDRE MARIE JEAN-JACQUES DUPIN (aine = elder) French lawyer, jurist and statesman, seated in his chambre d etudes, consulting a legal book from his library, no doubt. Date: 1783 - 1865

Mussolini / Three Soldiers
BENITO MUSSOLINI Italian dictator consulting with General Vaccari and others in September 1930 Date: 1930

Advert for Electropathic & Zander Institute 1892
Electropathic treatment showing the interior of a private consulting and treatment room in Oxford Street, the comfortable Harness Belt for men and women that gives support

UFO investigation group at work in an office
An American UFO investigation group at work in an office. Files are consulted, locations plotted, and a field investigator writes up his notes. Date: 1950s

Consulting the Oracle. Male and female anti-suffragists consult the oracle on how to rid themselves of the child who personifies the womens suffrage movement

Womens Royal Air Force -- Fortune Teller
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing four women consulting a Fortune Teller colleague, with cards laid out on the table. Date: 1919-1920

Russian Cossack officers, WW1
A group of Russian Cossack officers examining a document during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Prisoners consulting room, Newgate Prison
Prisoners consulting room at Newgate Prison, London. Date: 1862

I-CHING
Consulting the I-CHING in the elaborately decorated establishment of a Chinese fortune-teller Date: circa 1835

Girls Reading Inside
Three young Victorian women consulting a magazine on a table. Date: 1881

James Hallett, the Sussex Charlata
Illustration of James Hallett, " the Sussex Charlatan" in his consulting room with ladies waiting outside the door, circa 1795, by Clifford Thompson, circa 1822. HPG/8/2/1 (xxii)"

Papua People & Spirits
PAPUA NEW GUINEA Tribesmen consult the spirits regarding a proposed expedition. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

King of Florida consulting his Magician before battle
A King of Florida consulting his Magician before he marches into the field of battle

16th Century Astronomer
As astronomer at his desk, consulting his books : a celestial sphere hangs over his head, and he can see the stars themselves through his window

Lenormand - Wise Woman
Consulting a Wise Woman in ancient times

Lenormand - Soothsayer
GRAND JEU DE MLLE. DE LENORMAND Consulting a soothsayer in ancient times

Lenormand - Augur
Romans consulting an augur

Consulting the Prophet
A man consults a fortune teller on a matter of some importance

Greek Oracle
Consulting an oracle, in Ancient Greece

Albrecht Von Wallenstein
ALBRECHT VON WALLENSTEIN Austrian general, generally but not consistently loyal to the Emperor : depicted consulting an astrologer

Phrenology Session
Consulting the phrenologist - the parents wait while the practitioner assesses their sons qualities

Hogarths Quack Doctor
Marriage a la Mode Consulting the quack doctor

Ladies in a conservatory
Four elegant ladies and a child in a large conservatory (or greenhouse). They are tending plants and one of them is consulting a large book

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