Design Collection (page 5)

Soviet Poster Art

Vought XF5U-1 Flying Pancake
Vought Xf5U-1 Flying Pancake Unusual Design Parked Flying Flapjack Date: 1948

Cover design, Pears Annual, 1909
Cover design, Pears Annual for 1909, price sixpence, with two people walking through a snowy rural landscape. 1909

Poster design, Train in Art Deco style, advertising DPM White and Tinted Manifolds. 1936

Cover design, Simplicity Sewing Book, helpful hints for beginners and experts. 1947

Wrapper design, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Wrapper design, first monthly instalment of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, dated January 1846. 1846

Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Home made with Triplex! Date: circa 1920s

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Jack and Jill, showing a dog and a cat who are clearly the best of friends. Date: 1914

Advertisement for Bechstein Hall, Brook Street, London
Advertisement for the Bechstein Hall, Brook Street, London, in a building containing a concert hall, practice rooms, offices and showroom, built in 1929 by Bechstein, the German piano manufacturers

Nasturtium botanical study.. Lithograph with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Botanical illustration of the jonquil, Narcissus jonquilla, showing parts of flower.. Lithograph by Verneuil with pochoir (stencil)

WW2 birthday card with plane. Date: circa 1942

Poster, aviation meeting in Nice, France
Poster advertising an aviation meeting in Nice, France, 10-25 April 1910. Design by Charles-Leonce Brosse (alias Bsor, Bzor). Date: 1910

Bystander masthead design, society at the races
Stylised masthead design on the front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring smart society mingling at the races, possibly Ascot, the Derby or Goodwood. Date: 1930

Water Baby by Muriel Dawson -- a little child in a bathtub. Date: 1939

Repeating Pattern - Art Deco Woman - black background. *PLEASE NOTE that the magifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - Art Deco Women - dark blue background. *PLEASE NOTE that the magifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - Tea Cups. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

William Shakespeare on a Christmas card
Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Shakespeare with a quotation on a Christmas card (front and back covers) -- Heaven bless you and prosper your affairs (Henry IV, Part 2)

William Shakespeare on a greetings card
Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Shakespeare on a greetings card (front cover). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Design for Cretonne with flowers. Watercolour on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1936

Design for Printed Textile with flowers. Watercolour on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1931

Design for Printed Textile with leaves and flowers in art nouveau style. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1895

Design for Dress Silk or Print in brown and black. Body colour. Gouache on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1929

Design for Woven Textile, art deco style
Design for Woven Textile in art deco style. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1933

Design for wallpaper with leaves and flowers. Pencil and Charcoal on copy paper. Silver Studio 1927

Design for wallpaper with peacock feathers
Design for wallpaper with stylised peacock feathers. Pencil and gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1905

Metropolitan Fire Brigade helmet
Metropolitan Fire Brigade brass helmet, used until replaced by a cork version in the 1930s

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine combined with Practical Mechanics, showing two criminals in a red car being pursued by two policemen in a biplane

19th century Wallpaper
Williams Coopers Boyle & Co, grey and white patterned wallpaper, 1845 Date: 1845

James Watt Steam Engine Date: c. 1770

Cap badge, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Brass cap badge (the Kings Crown Shield) of REME, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Oval in shape, with a crown at the top, a pair of compasses at the centre

Royal Wedding 1947 - bride and bridesmaid dresses
A fairytale wedding gown by Norman Hartnell for Princess Elizabeth, in itself a tribute to British skill in design and workmanship

World Fair - General Motors - Futurama - Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes designed the General Motors Pavilion, known as Futurama, for the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. Date: circa 1939

Guinness Clock - Pleasure Gardens - Battersea Park Date: circa 1950s

Costume design for the Dolly Sisters
Costume design for a green outfit by Jean Le Seyeux for the Dolly Sisters in A vol d oiseau, Edouard VII Theatre, Paris, 1923 1923

Princess Margaret Design
Press release issued on the eve of Princess Margarets wedding showing her Victor Stiebel-designed going-away outfit with buttercup yellow swatches. Date: 1960

Union Workhouse, Thame, Oxfordshire
A view of the Thame Union workhouse from one of its internal yards with the workhouse chapel in the background. Posed for the photographer are what appear to be the workhouse master (standing)

Union Workhouse, Leigh, Lancashire
Opened in 1851, the Union workhouse on Leigh Road, Leigh, Lancashire, later became Atherleigh Hospital. This early 1900s view focuses on the recently added workhouse offices and receiving home

Union workhouse, Market Harborough, Leicestershire
The Market Harborough Union workhouse. The inscription on the pediment reads HARBOROUGH UNION WORKHOUSE 1836. At the doorway stands a man and a woman, presumably the master and matron

Union Workhouse, Cuckfield, Sussex
The Cuckfield Union workhouse, erected in 1843 on Ardingley Road in Cuckfield, Sussex. The architects, Foden and Parker, produced a less severe design than used in earlier workhouses

Elegant Ottoman calligraphy
Lovely example of elegant Ottoman calligraphy, topped by a cresent moon

Selfridges Department Store, London, c. 1908
Illustration showing the architects design for Selfridges Department Store in Oxford Street, London, c.1908 when the store was being built

The Safety Bicycle of the 1890 s
Photograph of a cyclist and his Safety bicycle of the 1890 s. John Kemp Starley produced the first safety bicycle with his Rover design of 1885

Victor Stiebel / Day Dress
Design by Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) for a pink linen and silk surah summer dress. Scooped-out bodice is filled with a lilac spotted scarf & large knot tied to the belt

Ballet Russses / Cover
Cover programme design for Col de. Basils Ballet Russes, at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, for June-September 1936

Cover design, London Mail, Christmas Extra 1923
Cover design in art deco style, London Mail Christmas Extra 1923 Date: 1923

Nepenthes gymnamphora pitcher plant
Nephenaceae or pitcher plants: Nepenthes gymnamphora (Nepenthes melamphora), carnivorous plant native to Indonesia. Chromolithograph by Adolf Glitsch from an illustration by Ernst Haeckel from Art

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