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Background imageCowper Collection: Cowper / Olney Vicarage

Cowper / Olney Vicarage
WILLIAM COWPER English poets home: the Vicarage at Olney in Buckinghamshire Date: 1731 - 1800

Background imageCowper Collection: Cowper / Birthplace / Herts

Cowper / Birthplace / Herts
WILLIAM COWPER English poets birthplace at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire Date: 1731 - 1800

Background imageCowper Collection: William Cowper

William Cowper
WILLIAM COWPER (1731 - 1800) English poet in his garden

Background imageCowper Collection: John Gilpins hat and wig run down the road after him

John Gilpins hat and wig run down the road after him
John Gilpins ride on the back of an out-of-control horse - his hat and wig run down the road after him - from a comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper - here he loses his hat and wig

Background imageCowper Collection: John Gilpins loses his hat and wig

John Gilpins loses his hat and wig
John Gilpins ride on the back of an out-of-control horse - from a comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper - here he loses his hat and wig! Date: 18th century

Background imageCowper Collection: John Gilpins rides on the back of an out-of-control horse

John Gilpins rides on the back of an out-of-control horse
John Gilpins ride on the back of an out-of-control horse - here he is chased by turnpike men who think he is a Highwayman

Background imageCowper Collection: Viscountess Jocelyn

Viscountess Jocelyn
FRANCES ELIZABETH (COWPER) JOCELYN Vicountess " Fanny" Jocelyn. Date: - 1880

Background imageCowper Collection: Paris, France - Hotel Cowper

Paris, France - Hotel Cowper. Date: 1856

Background imageCowper Collection: Kissing her Majestys hand, learning to curtsey at court

Kissing her Majestys hand, learning to curtsey at court
A young woman is tutored in the art of gracefully dropping to a curtsey during her presentation at court at the school of Miss Cowper Coles

Background imageCowper Collection: John Newton

John Newton
JOHN NEWTON Churchman, rector of St Mary Woolnoth, London, hymn writer and friend of the poet William Cowper. Date: 1725-1807

Background imageCowper Collection: Victory at the End of World War One

Victory at the End of World War One
Postcard commemorating the Victory at the end of the Great War in 1918, featuring an inset portrait of King George V. " He holds no parley with unmanly fears

Background imageCowper Collection: Colleagues with jigsaw, Convalescent Police Seaside Home

Colleagues with jigsaw, Convalescent Police Seaside Home
Two young Met Police colleagues at work on a jigsaw puzzle at the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex

Background imageCowper Collection: Panshanger, Hertfordshire

Panshanger, Hertfordshire, the seat of Earl Cowper Date: 1810

Background imageCowper Collection: Kentish Farmstead

Kentish Farmstead
Ratling Court, Ratling, Kent, England, a fine Tudor farmhouse and well lodge. It was at one time owned by the Cowper family, Royalist supporters of King Charles I. Date: 16th century

Background imageCowper Collection: Canada - Womens Residence, Macdonald College

Canada - Womens Residence, Macdonald College
Canada - The Womens Residence at Macdonald College - established in 1905 and opened in 1907 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, in the West Island region of the Island of Montreal

Background imageCowper Collection: Irish Unionist Meeting in London, 1886

Irish Unionist Meeting in London, 1886
Engraving showing the Great Unionist Meeting at Her Majestys Opera House, Haymarket, London, April 1886. A patriotic audience (bottom) acclaims Earl Cowper (centre, standing)

Background imageCowper Collection: The Making of the Illustrated London News: How the paper is

The Making of the Illustrated London News: How the paper is
Illustration by Samuel Begg, showing an army artists at work in the offices of The Illustrated London News. At times of exceptional pressure, for instance, during a Coronation or a State Funeral

Background imageCowper Collection: Olney Watermill

Olney Watermill
The fine old watermill at Olney, on the River Ouse, Buckinghamshire. It has associations with the poet William Cowper (1731 - 1800), who loved to stroll nearby

Background imageCowper Collection: Cowpers Writing Telegraph

Cowpers Writing Telegraph
A diagram of Cowpers writing telegraph. Invented in 1878 by William Cowper (1819-1893), the machine was able to reproduce a message written some distance away by a process of interrupted electrical

Background imageCowper Collection: Lady Harriet Hesketh

Lady Harriet Hesketh
LADY HARRIET HESKETH friend of the poet William Cowper

Background imageCowper Collection: Cowper / Holl

Cowper / Holl
WILLIAM COWPER English poet in pensive mood

Background imageCowper Collection: Applegarth Press

Applegarth Press
Printing press by APPLEGARTH & COWPER

Background imageCowper Collection: Gilpins Famous Ride

Gilpins Famous Ride
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin, wigless and on the back of a uncontrolled horse, is chased by other horseback riders to try to slow him

Background imageCowper Collection: Gilpin at Edmonton

Gilpin at Edmonton
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin, on the back of his uncontrolled horse, speeds past his family waving from the balcony at Edmonton

Background imageCowper Collection: Gilpins Family Set Off

Gilpins Family Set Off
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin and his family set off by carriage

Background imageCowper Collection: Stained Glass West Abbey

Stained Glass West Abbey
Windows in Westminster Abbey representing the poets George Herbert and William Cowper, donated by the American benefactor George William Childs



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