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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

New York Worlds Fair - First Day Cover
New York Worlds Fair World of Tomorrow - First Day Cover - Left-hand stamp depicts the Contemporary Arts Building. Date: 1939

Ms - C15 French Breviary
page from a French Breviary: the miniature depicts the Annunciation to Mary by an angel, watched by God from up there Date: early 15th century

Boots Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for an Ideal Homes Exhibition stand for Boots the chemist, both images depict scenes in which a finely dressed lady is buying products from a Boots shopkeeper

La Mitrailleuse
A painting with use of angular lines to depict a tightly packed void with three soldiers, one of them almost fused to a heavy machine gun. Date: 1915

Tweed suit and coat
Pattern from MABS FASHIONS depict two women modelling tweed suits and matching coats for Autumn wear. Date: circa 1930s

MEDIEVAL VESSEL
A 13th century vessel, purporting to depict Saint Paul on his travels, accompanied by Sylvanus (also known as Silas) and Timothy Date: 13th century

ST EDMUND BIRTH
This purports to depict the birth of St Edmund, king of East Anglia : in fact he was born at Nurnberg in 841, but this is typical of a 15th century English bedroom Date: 15th century

BELA KUN organises a communist revolution in Hungary - the Germans depict him rising to power on a heap of corpses Date: 1919

Interior - Abu Simbel
The interior of the temple built by Rameses II. The figures seated at the rear depict Rameses II, Ptah, Amun Re and Re-Horakhty. Date: 1846

Philip II of Spain welcomes Japanese ambassadors
" Philip II of Spain welcomes Japanese ambassadors in Madrid. This engraving might depict " Tensho Ken-oh Shisetsu" (1584-1585), a special mission organized by Christian lords Ohmura

Relief carvings, Wat Bayon temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia
Relief carvings at the Wat Bayon Khmer Buddhist temple at Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, Cambodia, built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

Battle between the English Fleet and Spanish Armada, 1588
Illustration of a battle in the English Channel between Elizabeth Is fleet and the Spanish Armada of King Philip II. This image would appear to depict several English galleons or galleases exchanging

Tea for pilgrims, Japan, circa 1880s - Studio tableau
Studio tableau that appears to depict tea being offered to pilgrims, Japan, circa 1880s Date: circa 1880s

J H Forsyth
J H FORSYTH - obscure cleric who might serve as a model for those comely curates and dishy divines that Punch liked to depict drooled about by female members of the congregation... Date: circa 1841

Charles Earl Bellamont
CHARLES earl of BELLAMONT Noble lord, who chooses to have Sir Joshua depict him in his fanciest dress - plumed hat, cloak, sword etc down to his dinky slippers... Date: 18th century

French Colonial
CIVILISATION ON THE MARCH The Germans despised the French for using their Colonial troops, and liked to depict them as apes and (as here) rapists Date: 1920

Rape of the Sabines
The abduction of Sabine women by the Romans provides Rubens with the occasion to depict lots of well-founded ladies. Date: circa 749 BCE

Picture transfers
Cover of a book of picture transfers depict two young girls filling an album with transfers Date: 1938

Rome / Trajan Column C1760
Trajans Column in Trajans Forum, Rome.The monument was built under Emperor Trajan and was finished in 113 AD. The carvings depict Trajans campaigns in Dacia. Date: 2nd century AD

Black Stele / Shalmaneser
This obelisk of black marble was found by Layard in the centre of the mound of Nimrud, and it is now in the British Museum. The four sides depict the life of Shalmaneser III

Birth of St Edmund / Shaw
This purports to depict the birth of St Edmund, king of East Anglia: in fact he was born at Nuremberg in 841, but this is typical of a 15th century English bedroom

Tornado, France C1863
A mother runs home with her children as a tornado approaches : this may depict the Loudun tornado of 1863

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