Desk Collection (page 18)

Office Worker
A man with a rather lavish moustache sits at his desk with his cheque book open

Dickens / Furniss
CHARLES DICKENS Victorian novelist

Strindberg / Self Photo
JOHAN AUGUST STRINDBERG Swedish playwright and novelist, best known for his play Miss Julie (1888), seen writing at his desk

Lincoln (Chappel)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President, clutching the Constitution of the United States

Charles James Fox / Smith
CHARLES JAMES FOX - British statesman

Saint Jerome, theologian, writing in his cell, shared with a lion and a skull. He is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (known as the Vulgate)

Classroom scene, with pupils eating at their desks
A classroom scene, with pupils eating their midday meal at their desks, at an unidentified mixed school

Farmer and Landlord 1886
Lady Day: The farmer complains to his landlord that hes going through a bad patch and can t pay the rent

Davy / Phillips
SIR HUMPHRY DAVY scientist

Thomas Marlowe, journalist and editor
THOMAS MARLOWE journalist, editor of the Daily Mail from 1899 to 1926

Pupil reading with teacher
A boy pupil reading with his teacher, at her desk in front of the blackboard

Ws Gilbert / Penrose 1911
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT English playwright and collaborator with Sullivan, writing at his desk

Elgar / Graphic 1904 / Desk
SIR EDWARD ELGAR English composer writing at his desk at Malvern Wells

Wilkie Collins / Writing
WILKIE COLLINS English novelist

Aristotle / Laplante
ARISTOTLE Greek philosopher as a young man, reading at his desk

Soane / Maclise / Frasers
SIR JOHN SOANE English architect

Shakespeare / Grammar Schl
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grammar School at Stratford-upon-Avon where he studied as a boy

Changing in Bathing Hut
Two girls strip in a hut which has not only a mirror and pegs but also a desk and chair in case they feel like writing postcards or a poem about the sea

Matthew Parker / Holl
MATTHEW PARKER Archbishop of Canterbury

Edinburgh / Alfred / Maull
ALFRED DUKE OF EDINBURGH Second son of Victoria, in civilian clothes, writing at a desk

Aem Gretry / Geille / Isabey
ANDRE-ERNEST-MODESTE GRETRY French composer at his desk

Robert Cecil / R Haines
VISCOUNT ROBERT CECIL British statesman at his desk

Condorcet (Beranger)
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET French philosopher sitting at his desk

Jacques Coeur / Dupre
JACQUES COEUR French merchant who gained wealth through trading and manufacturing; Chancellor to King Charles VII

Campbell-Bannerman / Postc
SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN Politician, writing at his desk

Edward Vii / Hills Cdv
Edward Vii, British Royalty as Prince of Wales Seated at his Desk

John Bright / Elliott & F
JOHN BRIGHT Liberal MP Date: 1811 - 1889

Louis Blanc / C Silvy
LOUIS BLANC French politician and writer

Woodrow Wilson / Stereosco
WOODROW WILSON 28th President of of U.S seated at his desk and holding a document

Photo, German at Desk
EDWARD GERMAN English composer

Conan Doyle / Menpes 1900
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE British physician and writer, in South Africa in 1900

Mme Jeanne-Marie Roland
JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND French saloniste & victim of the revolution, shown here at her writing desk

Wa Spooner / Vfair 1898
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SPOONER English clergyman and academic of New College, Oxford, best known for his Spoonerisms

James Young Simpson / Bing
SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON Scottish physician, first to use ether as an anaesthetic in obstetric practice

Eugene Scribe
EUGENE SCRIBE Popular French author depicted with his earnings heaped around his writing-desk

French Plan Air-Raid
Officers of a French aviation squadron prepare meticulously for a forthcoming air-raid

Public Letter Writer
A public letter writer composes at his desk for a female client

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

Man Writing in Ledger
A young man making an entry in a ledger with a fountain pen. He sits at a desk with a wire in-tray and stacks of card index drawers behind him

Wspu Offices
Christabel Pankhurst at a desk in the WSPU offices, St Clements Inn, London

Lincoln (Brady)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President

Stevenson Age 17
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Scottish writer and poet at the age of 17, arms folded on his desk

Stevenson Age 35
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Scottish writer and poet at the age of 35, seen writing at his desk

Clerk at his Desk
A clerk at his desk

Clerk on his Stool
A clerk at his desk, seated on a stool

Child in Frock 1860S
A small child wears a frock with short sleeves ornamented with full rosettes of narrow ribbon, volans & ribbon trim on the skirt, broad belt with buckle & button boots

GIRL & DESK 1860S
Girl: dress in a large check print, full skirt & vandyked falling collar & sleeves, trimmed with both narrow & broad velvet ribbon. Hair: chignon with hairnet

Costume / 2 Girls 1860S
Two girls in identical dresses with short full skirts, a row of pleated braid on the hem & sleeves & loose bodices with high round necks. Hair: hair net & chignon, ringlets

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