Economy Collection (page 9)

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. Butchery
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Butchery. Miniature. Fol

Heinr Hirzel machine to produce gas for lighting. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1886

Boat carrying goods in the port of London. XIX century colored engraving

Around Fier. Rural scenary. Republic of Albania
Rural scenery around the ruins of Apollonia. Fier. Republic of Albania

The industrial Mahonnaise. Mahon. Minorca. Balearic Islands
The industrial Mayonnaise. Factory located in Cala Figuera, in the port of Mahon, and that since 1856 was devoted to cotton production. Oil on canvas. Private collection. Minorca. Balearic Islands

VDNKh - trade show and amusement park in Moscow
VDNKh - a permanent general purpose trade show and amusement park in Moscow, Russia. The acronym VDNKh stands for Russian vystavka dostizheniy narodnogo khozyaystva

Cirpariano Castro
CIPRIANO CASTRO Dictator of Venezuela, ruined the economy with amazing incompetence, deposed in absentia. Date: 1858 - 1924

Disraeli / Reform 1866
Political " Economy" Disraeli thinks the old Reform Bill 1859 banner will do nicely for the opening scene if its spruced up a bit Lord Derby is not so sure. Date: 1 December 1866

Sir John Sinclair, Scottish politician and writer
Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835), 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (1780-1811), and Scottish writer on finance and agriculture

Cartoon, Explanation, WW1
Cartoon, Explanation. Three old age pensioners outside a restaurant discuss earnings and taxation. The plump man says he pays no taxes because he spends all his money on food. Date: 1916

Cartoon, In trouble, WW1
Cartoon, In trouble, showing a draper with a pile of cloth. He claims to be as patriotic as the next person, but is wondering whether he should dye his stock in grey-green (the German uniform colour)

Cartoon, Its very simple, WW1
Cartoon, Its very simple. A coal merchant tells a poor family that if they think his coal is too expensive, then they should do what he does, and burn wood instead. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Political Mathematicians, Shaking the Broad bottomd Hemispheres, by James Gillray. To that last Hope of the Country, the New Opposition

Cartoon, A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain, or, John Bull swamped in the Flood of new Taxes; Cormorants fishing in the Stream, by James Gillray

Food Economy Campaign, WWI - Canning Apples
Women canning apples on the home front during the First World War. In 1917, prior to rationing, a food economy campaign urged the public to save food and cook frugally. 1917

War-Time Economies Saving Breath, WW1 Heath Robinson
War-Time Economies from Heath Robinson - to Save Your Breath. The Penny-in-the-Slot machine for blowing out candles. Wartime savings taken to ridiculous lengths by William Heath Robinson who suggests

War-Time Economies Doing without Braces, WW1 Heath Robinson
War-Time Economies - A Sensible Way of Doing Without Braces. Another ingenious idea from William Heath Robinson, who suggests a strong magnet as an alternative to braces in order to keep ones

WW1 poster, Bad Form in Dress, advocating sensible attitudes to clothing in wartime. Date: 1914-1918

MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

Glass for tobacco (18th c. ). Bordeaux ceramics
Glass for tobacco (18th c.). Bordeaux ceramics. Ceramics. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. HAUTS-DE-SEINE. S趲 es. Sevres National Museum for Ceramics

Sugar Refinery. Illustration by Jan van Grevenbroeck or Grevenbroch (1731-1807) in Treaty of uses and customs of the time, s. XVIII. Early Modern Era. Watercolour. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Museo Correr

A Chinese Woman spinning, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

Metal box for storing Styli. It bears the emblem of the Englisch record label and music brand HMV His Masters Voice (La voz de su amo). Beginning of 20th c

FIGUEROLA Y BALLESTER, Laureano (1806-1903). Spanish political. PEс MUя Z, Maximino (1863-1940). Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Ministry of Economy

New Stock Exchange in London dealing with contracts on coal. La Ilustraci󮠐 eriod o Universal. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

FLORIDO BERNILS, Enrique (1873 - 1929). The port of Malaga. 1885. Spanish school. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Cᤩ z. Museo de Cᤩ z

MOLES, M. F. (second half 19th century-begin 20th
MOLES, M.F. (second half 19th century-begin 20th century). The grape harvest. 1900. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Sitges. Maricel Museum

GIRONA I AGRAFEL, Manuel (1818-1905). Spanish financier, founder of the first private bank in Spain, Banco de Barcelona, ?

PICO, Jos頨17th century). Conseller Quart (Councillor
PICO, Jos頨 17th century). Conseller Quart (Councillor fourth) of the Consell de Cent (Council of One Hundred). Government of the city of Barcelona. 1692. Painting. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona

Spain (1870). Opening of the Barcelona Exhibition. Etching. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Jewish merchant, 18th c. Hindu art. Miniature Painting

Pillow seller. Augustus reign (1st c. BF- 1st c. )
Pillow seller. Augustus reign (1st c.BF- 1st c.). Roman art. Early Empire. Relief. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery)

Graphic front cover - Sir Arthur Yapp
Sir Arthur Yapp (1869-1936), Deputy President of the YMCA and Director of Food Economy during the First World War. Responsible for encouraging the nation towards frugal

Clincher tyres advertisement, WW1 - Reginald McKenna
Advertisement for Clincher Tyres during the First World War featuring a caricature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginald McKenna who says we must economise

Paris, France - La Bourse. Date: circa 1839

Growing food in Chancery Lane, WW1
Mr Hubert Hall, resident officer of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, pictured hard at work in the gardens of the old Rolls House, where

The first National Kitchen, WW1
The first National Kitchen in Britain, opened on 21 May 1917 by Queen Mary. The National Kitchens were opened during the First World War to provide one solution to food shortages

Cartoon criticising dogs given luxury food in wartime, WW1
One of the horrors of war. " And did ums tink their mumsie would waste her money on the horrid war and rob her popsy-wopsies of their ickle nicy-picie" An illustration by George L

Belling electric fires advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Belling electric fires, with the revelation that families could do without one servant as a result of the modern device

Food shortages, WW1
London society finds that the only topic of conversation in 1918 is food, rationing and what there is available to eat. An illustration by Annie Fish to accompany the Letters of Eve gossip column in

Eve talks to Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, WW1
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine, lectures Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller during the latter part of the First World War, on the fact that his economy campaign

Campbell Dye Works advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for P & P Campbell Limited, Dye Works of Perth, whose dyes in wartime allowed people to practice wartime economy by dry-cleaning or dyeing existing clothes or soft furnishings instead

The impact the war had on upper classes in Hyde Park
A slightly comedic illustration in Hyde Park, showing the effect of WW1 on the upper classes. Shown in rags, the only sign of their class is the style of their clothes with a suggestion that this was

Lady Kindersley as a waste paper merchant, WW1
Lady Kindersley, formerly Miss Gladys Beadle, pictured near her home in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, collecting waste paper with the aid of her children and two donkey carts

The Education of the Masses, War Economy, Douglas MacKenzie
Illustration showing the mass of entertainment and amusements on offer to the London population during the First World War, despite the fact the country was supposed to be practising war economy

Rainaway Conduit Coat
The Rainaway Conduit Coat at Kenneth Durward s. It is 48 inches long and cut with a very deep sleeve; it is an ideal coat for motoring and absolutely waterproof

Darn It by Edmund Blampied
A pretty sketch of a young woman darning a stocking - a fine example of war economy. 1916

War Economy by A. Wallis Mills, WW1
Lady Sybil de Vere: " Do look at those extraordinary people. Their clothes are quite new!" Sir Hugo: " Rotten bad form

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