Expectations Collection

Pip & Miss Havisham
Pip and Miss Havisham

Great Expectations: The Dickens Christmas Spirit by Matania
A Dickensian Christmas as imagined by the Italian-born artist, Fortunino Matania, who in his later career concentrated on historical genre subjects

Comic postcard, Woman bathing in the sea - only up to my knees! Date: 20th century

Dickens scrap - Pip and Joe in Great Expectations
Charles Dickens scrap - Pip and Joe in the novel Great Expectations, Chapter 7. 19th century

Neilson NC-1 Golden Bear - aka Coach NC883E
Neilson NC-1 Golden Bear (aka Coach) X883E (later NC883E), built by the (Thomass & Duncan S) Neilsen Steel Aircraft Co, Berkeley CA. at Berkeley airport around the time of its first flight

Mitsubishi 2MR1 Tobi reconnaissance biplane. Designed and built for an Imperial Japanese Army Air Service competition for a reconnaissance aircraft

Curtiss Beachy Tractor biplane. Lincoln Beachey, a reknowned American display and aerobatic pilot worked for Curtiss until 1911 and required a new aircraft to carry on with his own air-show flying

Life of Charles Dickens - Fountain Court (Great Expectations). Part of Box 330 Charles Dickens (Life and Works) slide no 20 Date: circa 1890s

Great Expectations by Harry Rountree
A meek, little mouse sits on a branch and waits hoping that Father Christmas will fill the threadbare stocking with some Christmas presents. Date: 1914

A recuperating wounded WW1 soldier gets his comeuppance - initial delights at the idea of a massage from nurse on the Monday turns into stark realisation tat this might not be quite so pleasurable

Great Expectations - Waiting to see An Ideal Husband
Satirical card entitled Great Expectations. A group of women waiting to see a performance of An Ideal Husband (an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde) at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Date: 1895

Cooling Church
The Church of St. James, Cooling, Kent, England, famous for its association with Charles Dickens as the place where Pip first met Magwich in Great Expectations. Date: late 14th century

My Dads at the Front
Children used as recruiting sergeants in Cardiff, 1915. The British Cabinet were against conscription and so Lord Kitchener had to rely on recruitment drives

Great Expectations
Pip and Estella walk arm in arm

Langleys Model
Samuel Pierpont Langleys model performs well and promises success, but his full-size flying machine will fail his expectations

Dickens / Pumblechook
Uncle Pumblechook

Pip & Joe Gargery
Pip and Joe Gargery

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