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Sick man with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Comic postcard, I shall be pleased to see your jolly old mug again! Date: 20th century
Early Japanese portrait: woman with umbrellaVintage 19th century photograph - early photographic portrait from Japan, probably the work of the Japanese photographer Shimooka Renjo - woman with parasol, umbrella
Clown with donkey and bottle on a comic greetings cardClown holding a bottle of ginger beer for a donkey to drink from on a comic greetings card. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century
Clown with barrel on a comic greetings cardClown filling a bottle from a barrel of ginger beer on a comic greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: early 20th century
Chef with pudding on a Christmas cardChef in a kitchen with a pudding on a Christmas card -- Out of the frying pan into the fire. Date: circa 1890s
Girl seeing stories in the fire on a Christmas cardGirl seeing stories in the fire on a Christmas and New Year card, with a humanised joint of meat, a pudding, a turkey, geese, bottles and a steaming kettle. Date: circa 1890s
Man with smiling pudding on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Smiling man in cap and goggles on a movable greetings card. Date: circa 1890s
Rabbit pulling large egg in a cart on an Easter postcardRabbit pulling a large humanised egg in a cart on an Easter postcard. Date: circa 1890s
Garden scene with robins and flowers on a Christmas cardGarden scene with robins, flowers, trees and water spouts on a Christmas card with white and gold ornate edging. circa 1890s
Clown riding a goose on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Two clowns with an umbrella on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s
Clock with nursery rhyme on a Christmas card, with verse below. Date: circa 1890s
Clowns face on a hat-shaped New Year cardClowns smiling face on a hat-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Clown head on a Victorian scrapClown head in profile on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s
Punch BowlTHE PUNCH BOWL
Victorian Scrap - Circus Clown Feeding the Baby. late 19th century
Cartoon, The Brothers Griffiths -- Athletic Drolls. Two clowns in costume. 1884
Two men playing chess, watched by a boxer dogUnusual Friends - two men playing chess, watched by a boxer dog. 1950s
Matene Te Nga, Chief of the Ngati Maru Tribe, New ZealandMatene Te Nga, Chief of the Ngati Maru Maori Tribe with tattooed face, New Zealand. Date: circa 1900
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Toucouleurs (Fula) WomanA Fula (Toucouleurs) Woman from Bukina Faso (Upper Volta), a landlocked country in West Africa. Date: circa 1920s
The Cook, c. 1570, by Giuseppe ArcimboldoGiuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593). Italian painter. The Cook, c. 1570. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden
Young Parisian Lady, c. 1875, by Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). French painter. Young Parisian Lady, c. 1875. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden
Dionysus. Bust. 2nd century AD. MarbleGreek mythology. Dionysus. God of wine. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark
Offerng female Iberian sculpture. 2nd-3rd centuries BCFemale Iberian sculpture in offering attitude, carrying a offering glass. 2nd-3rd centuries BC. Limestone. Robed and veiled conical miter
Plastic Surgery - Before and AfterExamples of patients who have undergone plastic surgery in the 1920s, to accompany an article in " The Sphere" magazine, entitled " New Faces for Old." 1927
Portrait of Livia Colonna, 1570-1572, by Paolo VeronesePaolo Veronese (1528-1588). Italian painter. Portrait of Livia Colonna, 1570-1572. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain
Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and Magdalena RuizIsabella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633). Infanta of Spain. Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and Magdalena Ruiz, 1585-1588. By Alonso Sanchez Coello (1531-1588). Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain
Arab Girl - Cairo, Egypt - wearing coins and medallions on a beaded string around her hairline and neck. Date: circa 1907
Philip II of Macedon (382-336 BC). Bust. MarblePhilip II of Macedon (382-336 BC). King of the Ancient Greek Kingdom of Madedom from 359 -336 BC. Bust. Marble. From Anatolia. Roman work after original of about 4th century BC
Claudius (10 BC-54 AD). Roman Emperor. Bust. MarbleClaudius (10BC-54 AD). Roman Emperor from 41 to 54 AD. House Julio-Claudian Dynasty. Bust. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark
Aged Sami Fortuneteller - NorwayAged Sami (Saami) Fortuneteller - Norway. Date: circa 1910s
At the circus, two clowns playing musical instruments 1888Two traditional circus clowns, wearing ruffled collar, pointed hats, white faces with red noses, lips, eyebrows and cheeks, playing musical instruments. Date: 1888
The Novice Who Ticked Off The Bridge Expert by H M BatemanThe Novice Who Ticked Off The local Bridge Expert by H M Bateman. This illustration shows a man who is so unused to being contradicted that his monocle has fallen from his eye
Pre-Incan. Mantena Culture. 500-1500 AD. From EcuadorPre-Columbian art. Pre-Incan. Mantena Culture. 500-1500 AD. From Ecuador. 21 x 15 cm (diameter). Anthropomorphic ceramic vessel. Private collection
Clown feeding a baby on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s
Dachshund with a movable tail on a novelty postcard. Date: circa 1890s
Portrait of Pope Gregory XV (1554-1623). Engraving by PeterPope Gregory XV (1554-1623). Born Alessandro Ludovisi. Engraving by Peter Isselburg (1580-ca.1630). Colored
Jose Mariano Michelena (1772-1852). Engraving. ColoredJose Mariano Michelena (1772-1852). Mexican military officer and politician. Mexican engraving, 1885. Colored
Tom L Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, USATom Loftin Johnson (1854-1911), American industrialist and Democrat politician, US Representative (1891-1895) and Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1901-1909). Date: circa 1905
Old London Signs - The Bull & Mouth Inn sign - formerly to be found in Aldersgate Street, London - from the original sign now in the Guildhall Museum
George II (1683-1760). Engraving. ColoredGeorge II (1683-1760). King of Great Britain and Ireland. Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. Portrait. Engraving. Colored
Saint Jerome, 1646, by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652)Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652). Spanish painter. Saint Jerome, 1646. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic
Roman mosaic. Female figure depicting the Spring (Hestas). 4th century. It comes from Villa Las Tiendas. Merida (Augusta Emerita). National Museum of Roman Art. Merida. Spain
Jean-Baptiste Sebastian Frantz (1817-1899). Colored engravinJean-Baptiste Sebastian Frantz (1817-1899). French engineer and politician. Engraving. Colored
Arsenio Martinez Campos y Anton (1831-1900). Engraving. ColoArsenio Martinez Campos y Anton (1831-1900). Spanish officer, who rose against the First Spanish Republic in a military revolution in 1874 and restored Spains Bourbon dynasty
Robert Koch (1843-1910). Engraving. ColoredRobert Koch (1843-1910). German physician. Nobel Prize, 1905. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1890. Colored