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Background imageDown Collection: Horse Drawn Cart

Horse Drawn Cart
A painting of a horse drawn cart travelling down a countryside road, which has a row of tall, slender trees along it's edge. Date: circa 1916

Background imageDown Collection: A Quiet Country Road

A Quiet Country Road
A landscape etching of a cloaked man travelling down a peaceful country road, with bushes and trees to each side. Date: circa 1916

Background imageDown Collection: Workmen Walking

Workmen Walking
A painting of a gang of four workmen, strolling down a lane of a town, a fruit seller can be seen with her cart just behind them. Date: circa 1916

Background imageDown Collection: Sitting On The Rocks

Sitting On The Rocks
An illustration portraying a long haired girl, with her head looking down as she sits on some large rocks by the ocean, with a relaxed or negative demeanour. Date: circa 1916

Background imageDown Collection: Town Alley

Town Alley
A painting of a town alley in which numerous people are walking down the narrow road, two colourful green and red striped pillars stand on the right. Date: circa 1915

Background imageDown Collection: Beaufort Street

Beaufort Street
A painting of some people walking down a pavement of Beaufort Street in Chelsea, London. An area of housing sits behind the advertisement boards. Date: circa 1915

Background imageDown Collection: Woman at her Desk

Woman at her Desk
A painting which shows a woman who is wearing a blue robe, sat at her lamp lit desk, with her head down reading. Date: circa 1915

Background imageDown Collection: This Is A Heart The Queen Leant On

This Is A Heart The Queen Leant On
This painting shows a lone man, wandering down a set of steps with a parade of people walking through the arched hallways behind

Background imageDown Collection: The Descent From The Cross

The Descent From The Cross
This oil painting is a biblical depiction of the Deposition of Christ, inspired from the Gospels accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion

Background imageDown Collection: The Down

The Down
A landscape artwork of some windswept trees taking a beating from the gusty wind, in an English countryside. Date: circa 1914

Background imageDown Collection: Among The Searchlights

Among The Searchlights
An oil painting looking down at a central strip of the River Thames in London, under a dark evening sky. Beams from search lights around the city erratically protrude into the air. Date: circa 1918

Background imageDown Collection: Ocean Liners - four hardbound books

Ocean Liners - four hardbound books. Leaves from an Unwritten Logbook by Captain Parker, Hull Down by Sir Bertram Hayes, Viscount Pirrie of Belfast by Herbert Jefferson

Background imageDown Collection: Down the Drain

Down the Drain
British Railway's staff information poster, designed by Frank Newbould, c.1950. This poster warns against loss, damage and delay. Date: circa 1950

Background imageDown Collection: Home Sweet Home down South - Kentucky, USA

Home Sweet Home down South - Kentucky, USA. A slightly-derogatory view of the run-down home of a black family in the deep south of America. Date: 1907

Background imageDown Collection: Seaside donkey pulling a car across Block Island beach, USA

Seaside donkey pulling a car across Block Island beach, USA
A superb photographic postcard showing a Seaside donkey pulling (a pretty stuck-looking!) car acoss a sandy beach at Block Island

Background imageDown Collection: George V - Silver Jubilee Procession at Victoria Memorial

George V - Silver Jubilee Procession at Victoria Memorial
George V - Silver Jubilee Procession passing the Queen Victoria Memorial before Buckingham Palace, London. Date: 1935

Background imageDown Collection: White Star Line, decorative endpapers, presentation book

White Star Line, decorative endpapers, presentation book
White Star Line, decorative endpapers of presentation book. Extremely rare T.H. Ismay hardbound volume presented to the managers

Background imageDown Collection: RMS Titanic - Artie Frost's measuring instruments

RMS Titanic - Artie Frost's measuring instruments
RMS Titanic - Anthony (Artie) Wood Frost was a member of the Harland & Wolff Titanic Guarantee Group, one of nine employees chosen to oversee the smooth running of Titanic's maiden voyage

Background imageDown Collection: RMS Titanic - letter, Mabel Francatelli, passenger

RMS Titanic - letter, Mabel Francatelli, passenger
RMS Titanic - First Class passenger Mabel Francatelli. A fascinating letter from Mattison, Davey & Rader of New York to Miss Francatelli dated 17 April 1956

Background imageDown Collection: Sanotogen advert

Sanotogen advert
A woman appearing ??Run-down?. The advert offering Sanatogen to build your health back up. It was invented by the Bauer Chemical Co. in Germany in 1898. It is still sold today as vitamins. Date: 1925

Background imageDown Collection: Madrid Mob burns Arms of German Legation

Madrid Mob burns Arms of German Legation
A Spanish mob burns the arms of the German Legation in the Puerta del Sol, Madrid. This was in response to the Carolines Crisis (/Question)

Background imageDown Collection: Madrid Mob Tears Down German Flag

Madrid Mob Tears Down German Flag
A Spanish mob tears down the flag at the German Legation, Madrid. This was in response to the Carolines Crisis (/Question)

Background imageDown Collection: St Jerome's Commentary on the Prophet Amos (Fragment)

St Jerome's Commentary on the Prophet Amos (Fragment)
Half of a leaf from a copy of St Jerome's Commentary on the Prophet Amos (Commentariorum Sancti Hieronymi In Amos Prophetae), parchment

Background imageDown Collection: Unidentified Fragment

Unidentified Fragment
Fragment of a leaf of a manuscript, parchment. Text in Middle German(?). The text block has wide margins above, beneath and to the left-hand side but the leaf has been cut down the right-hand side

Background imageDown Collection: Workmen watch RMS Queen Mary on River Clyde

Workmen watch RMS Queen Mary on River Clyde
Workers down tools to watch RMS Queen Mary making her way down the River Clyde Date: 1936

Background imageDown Collection: RMS Queen Mary with seven tugs, River Clyde

RMS Queen Mary with seven tugs, River Clyde
Seven tugs helping to steer RMS Queen Mary down the River Clyde Date: 1936

Background imageDown Collection: RMS Queen Mary, coils of chains piled under hull

RMS Queen Mary, coils of chains piled under hull
RMS Queen Mary, coils of chains piled under the hull to check progress down the slipway Date: 1930s

Background imageDown Collection: Children climbing down to the beach

Children climbing down to the beach with bucket and spade

Background imageDown Collection: SECR Steam Locomotive 4-4-0 No. 470

SECR Steam Locomotive 4-4-0 No. 470
SECR (South Eastern and Chatham Railway) Steam Locomotive 4-4-0 No. 470 passing Shakespeare's Cliff, Dover, with a down train

Background imageDown Collection: Music cover, Down in Dreamy Valley

Music cover, Down in Dreamy Valley, words and music by Michael Carr Date: 1947

Background imageDown Collection: Treacle on Tap, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson

Treacle on Tap, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Background imageDown Collection: The Nativity

The Nativity
A woodcut showing a nativity scene, with the Virgin Mary looking down at her miracle child, overlooked by a cluster of angelic figures

Background imageDown Collection: Mrs. Venour Nathan

Mrs. Venour Nathan
A portrait pencil drawing of Mrs. Venour Nathan, looking rather subdued with eyes looking down. Date: circa 1924

Background imageDown Collection: Market Day, Villefranche

Market Day, Villefranche
A watercolour looking down on the scene of French citizens, gathered outside a grocery store on market day, in Villefranche, on the Riviera, southwest of Monaco. Date: circa 1924

Background imageDown Collection: Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
An illustrated page from the Fioretti Di S. Francesco, writtin originally by Francesco D'Assisi, depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, whom is looking down on a worhipping monk

Background imageDown Collection: Melbourne 1920

Melbourne 1920
An etching showing Melbourne at a distance, looking down the line of a large winding river with reed banks. Date: 1920

Background imageDown Collection: The Doctor

The Doctor
An oil painting of a seated doctor, examining his patient, the main subject of the work, who is looking down at the artist, with his shirts raised, exposing his abdomen. Date: circa 1919

Background imageDown Collection: The Broken Waggon

The Broken Waggon
A landscape oil painting showing a broken down wagon, with two horses nearby, in an Australian countryside setting. Date: circa 1919

Background imageDown Collection: Williams Talc Powder Advertisement

Williams Talc Powder Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Williams Talc Powder. The fragrance of an old-fashioned garden, promoting a nostalgia, the purity of mountain air and the softness of thistle down

Background imageDown Collection: The Crevice

The Crevice
An oil painting showing a lady standing on some high rocks, wearing a long, blue dress, accompanied by a younger woman say down, inspecting a crevice that has formed between them. Date: circa 1916

Background imageDown Collection: Evening Lit Street

Evening Lit Street
Oil painting of a street in the evening, featuring a man pushing a cart down the road, towards the light. We see the calligraphic touch of Utrillo grafted to the dramatic vision of Vlaminck

Background imageDown Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Illustration to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow showing a man and woman in a strange clearing, surrounded by animated trees and a couple of goblins looking down on them. Date: circa 1929

Background imageDown Collection: Lady Acheson, nee Mildred Carter

Lady Acheson, nee Mildred Carter
Mildred Acheson, Countess of Gosford (1888-1965) was an American socialite, here depicted on the occasion of her wedding to Lord Archibald Acheson

Background imageDown Collection: Dorothy Hurst, actress, theatrical studio portrait, kneeling, in pale costume with down trim

Dorothy Hurst, actress, theatrical studio portrait, kneeling, in pale costume with down trim. Captioned, Just By the Way!'

Background imageDown Collection: Colour illustration of golfer in tweeds, in an accident with butcher's boy on bike, P Bodge

Colour illustration of golfer in tweeds, in an accident with butcher's boy on bike, P Bodge, Family Butcher. Outdoor scene in country lane by H H Harris

Background imageDown Collection: Caricatures of players from the English cricket team, by Kerwin Maegraith

Caricatures of players from the English cricket team, by Kerwin Maegraith. Including Tate, Bryan, Whysall, Hendren, Hobbs, Woolley, Sutcliffe, Kilner, Tyldesley, Freeman, Sandham, Chapman, Strudwick

Background imageDown Collection: Common Cold Research Unit, Wiltshire

Common Cold Research Unit, Wiltshire
An aerial view of the Common Cold Research Unit established in 1946 at Harvard Hospital, Harnham Down, near Salisbury. Date: circa 1950

Background imageDown Collection: Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1583

Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1583
United States Air Force (USAF) - Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1583 (MSN 382-4545), at the Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Airshow held at Boscombe Down on 10 June 1990. Date: 1990



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