Creating Collection

The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by
The difficult problem of how to enjoy games and field sports when you live in a block of flats has triumphantly solved. The sixth in the series of Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson

An Ideal Home No. I by William Heath Robinson
The first 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

CARPENTER / 1870
A carpenter planes a piece of wood creating lots of wood shavings

Giant Makes the Wrekin
A giant intends to dam the Seven & flood Shrewsbury, but a cobbler persuades the giant that it is a very long way, so the giant gives up & dumps his load creating the Wrekin

FAIRY RING
Children watch fairies dancing and creating a fairy ring

The artist, Alfred Munnings, at his easel
Alfred Munnings at work on an equestrian portrait. Date: 1921

A double-exposure photograph creating a ghost illusion, Victorian period

Forest Tiger
This watercolour painting shows a tiger like creature with the facial features and hands of a human, creating quite an unusual image, it is prowling through a forest of trees and colourful flowers

Advertisement for Nell Gwynn Candles
An advertisement for Nell Gwynn Candles.'Shadows of the past'. Even in the days of Charles II, Field's were making candles

Instructions for creating decorative patches to repair holes in fabric, with ideas for motifs. Date: 1943

An advert for Belling Electric Fires, suggesting that as well as creating warmth, they can also help to generate daydreams. Date: circa 1932

Tear Bottles 1930s
A young woman creating a tear bottle display, a mourning custom dating from Ancient Rome and Egypt, when mourners would bottle their tears for burial with their loved ones. early 1930s

Brass Mill Date: 1938

Design by Paquin - black hobble skirt, fur-trimmed jacket
Design by Paquin: black hobble skirt, fur-trimmed jacket in a bright floral print cut-away at the front & creating a tunic effect, cocked brim hat with aigrette & buckle shoes. Date: 1912

RIDING IN HOLLAND PARK
Men, women and children riding in Holland Park, London. One of Dores most beautiful engravings, creating an almost dream-like atmosphere. Date: 1870

GOD CREATING
God creates... Date: YEAR ZERO

Twos Company - Threes Trouble! A pretty girl is creating certain jealous thoughts between her TWO male companions. She seems happy just to have the choice on each arm! Date: circa 1910s

Second Spanish Republic. Escola nova, poble lliure (new school, free people). Poster in Catalan by Carme Millࠩ Tersol (-1999)

Joan Jordan creating The Tatler Xmas number cover, 1950
Danish-born artist, Joan Jordan, at work creating a cloth-cut montage design for the front cover of The Tatler, 1950. The finished cover is picture number 11067905. Date: 1950

Charles Dana Gibson
CHARLES DANA GIBSON American illustrator, famous for creating the Gibson Girl. Depicted surrounded by a collage of his drawings. Date: 1867 - 1944

Couturier at Work 1927
An overweight couturier in a smoking jacket depicted in the throws of creating a fashion masterpiece. His assistant holds some fringing up against a model for his approval. Date: 1927

Thomas Nast
THOMAS NAST American cartoonist; credited with creating American image of Santa Claus Date: 1840 - 1902

A von Tirpitz - graphic 07
Alfred vo Tirpitz (1849 - 1930) German naval commander. Credited with creating the German high-seas fleet (WWI)

Ovaltine advert, 1927 focusing on the idea of creating energy an nervous vitality Date: 1927

Japan - Creating a miniature Bonseki landscape
Japan - Bonseki - the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black lacquer trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks

Boy scouts creating a design on the ground, Greece
Boy scouts creating an arrow design on the ground, Greece

The Great Ladies Crusade Against The Matinee Hat 1906
Photographs showing hats made by the Comtesse de Talleyrand, the Comtesse Recope, the Comtesse de Fels, the Marquise de Jaucourt and the Comtesse de Guerne

Louis Faidherbe Photo
LOUIS LEON CESAR FAIDHERBE French colonial administrator, governor of French West Africa, military commander in Prussia war, creating the tirailleurs. Photo 1870. Date: 1818 - 1889

Repeating Pattern - Dancing girls - silhouette - yellow
Repeating Pattern - Three young girls in pretty frocks dancing (in silhouette on yellow background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

Estr饳, Gabrielle d, Duchesse de Beaufort, Duchesse dɴ ampes (1573-1599). French mistress of King Henry IV of France, she gave birth to three children

Humorous postcard - Workhouse Tramp gets the Order of the B
A humorous postcard showing a tramp in a workhouse being pushed towards a bath by a uniformed attendant. The Order of the Bath refers to a British order of chivalry whose name derives from

Creating a clone to solve a love triangle
Creating a clone of the girl that two men are in love with - illustration to The Four-sided Triangle by William F Temple. Date: 1939

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory
Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft

Vanity Fair A La Mode by Charles Robinson
An illustration by Charles Robinson (1870-1937), brother of William Heath Robinson) of a fashion designer creating his collection in the open air

J. M. Barrie
A portrait of James Matthew Barrie 1860-1937, Scottish playwright and novelist. He studied at Edinburgh University in 1882 and later moved to London

Scenes during a days fishing off St. Helena, c. 1877
Engraving showing a number of scenes on St. Helena and during a fishing trip off the island, c.1877. The centre image shows one of the European fishermen hauling in an eel

Jacket & Trousers 1939
Leisure, those idle care-free re-creating moments, has brought the Lounge Sports Jacket and Flannel Trousers into great popularity

Futurist designer dress, 1913
A design by the Futurist artist, Leon Bakst, expressing the spring time of the earth, 1913. Bakst designed dresses and scenery for the Russian ballet at this time

Steam-Plough in the Arkansas Valley, 1907
Photograph showing the latest Steam-plough, creating seven furrows at a time, as used in the Arkansas valley, 1907. At this time the valley was being reclaimed by means of irrigation

Feather Hat with Veil
A toque or fitted helmet composed of black & white feathers creating a scallop design complete with a visor style veil; a black hat with a segmented brim

Moss Photographs H Price
A spirit photograph of Harry Price taken by George Moss who subsequently confessed to creating fake pictures (such as this one)

Costume / Gimbel Bros 1914
Fur hat, stole, fur-trimmed coat, double skirts (narrow under-skirt) or long jackets creating a tunic effect, hats with broad brims & vertical trim, Louis heel boots

God Creating Worlds
God and a demon create new worlds for the fun of it

Napoleon the Kingmaker
Napoleon the Gingerbread Baker creating new kings - a comment on his habit of appointing his relatives to the thrones of defeated or occupied nations

Smokeless Powder 1 of 2
Gunfire using normal powder, creating a cloud of smoke (1 of 2)

Sculpting Animals
Waterstone Hawkins and an assistant in his workshop, creating the prehistoric animal sculptures for the grounds of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham

Dinner Dress / Worth 1921
Pink dress by Worth with cap sleeves, deep V -neck, slightly low waisted & with a skirt composed of sections of tiers of fringing creating an uneven hemline

Swimwear / Women / 1918
Pre-war & post-war fashions creating a skirmish on the sea front

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