Face Collection (page 9)

Dearborn Limited Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Dearborn Limited, promoting refined toilet table essentials, including Mercolized wax, Stallax hair shampoo, Prolactum lip colour

Yardley & Co Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Yardley & Co, a perfumery and fine soap maker established in 1770. The illustrations show the art in perfumery

Desert Village, Arizona
An oil painting showing a desert village in Arizona, U.S.A. with a sheer rock face, boasting an impressive use of shadows, Date: circa 1919

An Australian Lady
A portrait oil painting, showing the side profile of a young lady, wearing a black headband, with a blushing face. Date: circa 1919

Nyal's Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Nyal's, producers of cosmetics, it is promoting their face cream. Enhances my lady's charm, imparting girlish youth & transparent beauty

War Memorial At Annandale
A photograph of a war memorial at Annandale, in the form of a hybride obelisk cenotaph, with curved seating. The names of 87 local dead people are inscribed on the front face

Indasia Advertisement
Advertisement for Indasia Eastern Perfume. The subtle fragrance of the East is harmonised in INDASIA Eastern Perfume. The illustration shows a woman with a magnifying glass

Commercial Poster McDougall's Flour
A commercial advertising poster promoting McDougall's Self-Raising Flour. For cakes that cause delight this phrase is emphasised by the large image of a young boy smiling with a laughing face of

Advert for Larola - For Face and Hands - bottle being held up by an ARP (Air Raid Precautions) Girl Date: 1940

Annie Benham, a Romany traveller
A portrait of Annie Benham, a Romany traveller pictured in the Dorset Downs. Date: 1939

Portrait of Lady Islington
Anne Dundas, Lady Islington, was the wife of Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Governor-General of New Zealand from 1910 until 1912. Date: 1910

Emmy Destinn
The opera singer Emmy Destinn (1878-1930) on the cover of The Tatler'. She was due to have performed at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris with the New York Metropolitan operatic company

Mrs Ronald Balfour, studio portraits. Captioned, The Face and the Flower No 4 Mrs Ronald Balfour'. With description, To choose a flower to express the quality of Mrs Ronald Balfour's

Lord Howard de Walden, illustration by W Howard Robinson, in fencing outfit with epee and face guard. Captioned I was ever a fighter'

Wartime advert for Yardley Cosmetics, featuring the face of a woman in Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform. Date: 1943

Wartime advert for Yardley Complexion Powder, featuring the face of a nurse. Date: 1943

A wartime advert for Yardley Complexion Powder. Date: 1943

Christmas card, Miss Dolly stands in the corner
Victorian Christmas card, girl tells Miss Dolly to stand in the corner, Santa Claus waits to wish her a Merry Christmas Date: 19th century

French and German caricature soldiers face off
The splendidly drawn uniformed figures are divided by the German's boast of the strength of his armed forces and the Frenchman's literally translated reply So what? Clear off'

Advert, Yardley cosmetics, WW2
Advert, Yardley cosmetics, encouraging women to keep their standards up during WW2 - put your best face forward. Date: 1942

Music cover, I Love You Very Much, Madame, words and music by Fred Grundland and Michael Carr, recorded and broadcast by Ambrose and his Embassy Band. Date: 1934

Advert, Price's Olva Toilet Soap, made with palm fruit oil and olive fruit oil, sixpence per tablet. Date: 1926

My Word! We caught THIS wandering here. Two young women mock a rather daft-looking young man, possibly trying to use his facial dexterity to gain their attention/affection?! Date: 1910

Hermes and the Infant Dionysus (detail)
Close-up facial detail of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, also known as the Hermes of Praxiteles or the Hermes of Olympia - an ancient Greek sculpture of Hermes

Advertisement for Lotus, open-toe heeled shoes. Date: 1950

Photograph of Old Face Plate Lathe, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895. 3-speed gear and differential. Date: circa 1920

Three comic profiles with movable chain. Date: circa 1920s

Conchy, peek-a-boo character by Chloe Preston, WW1
Conchy (conscientious objector), First World War. A peek-a-boo character by Chloe Preston, in hand-painted Savoy china (Birks Grotesques). 1914-1918

Posada, Calavera of the Female Dandy, Mexico
Calavera of the Female Dandy, Mexico. circa 1910s

Calavera de la Adelita, Mexico -- La Adelita is a famous Mexican folk song of the revolutionary period (1910-1920), about a female soldier and supporter of the revolutionary leader Francisco Madero

Calavera Mexico 1900s Death Skull Bones Mexican
calavera, mexico, 1900s, death, skull, bones, mexican, face, skulls, teeth, morbid, macabre, head, dead, hat, dark, humour, spear, armour, don, horse, horses, horseback, flying, skeleton, skeletons

Calavera of Don Juan Tenorio -- a version of the legend of Don Juan. The stone statue on the right refers to the statue which comes to life and drags Don Juan to hell. Date: circa 1900s

Calavera of the Dandy, Mexico
Calavera (skull or death's head) of the Dandy, Mexico. circa 1910s

Advertisement, Dr Williams pink pills for pale people. Afraid to face traffic. Nerves in a terrible state and anaemia made her as pale as death

Sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Medusa. From Sidon (Lebanon)
Roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Marble. Medusa. From Sidon (Lebanon). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. From Sidon (Lebanon)
Roman sarcophagus tub. 2nd century AD. Marble. From Sidon (Lebanon). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

The Descent from the Cross from Erill la Vall. 12th century
Romanesque art. Spain. The Descent from the Cross. Detail. Face. 12th century. Poplar and walnut wood with traces of polychromy. From the church of Santa Eulalia in Erill la Vall

Funerary mask. Punic style. Spain
Funerary mask. Punic style. Terracotta. From Cemetery of Puig des Molins, Ibiza. Archaeological Museum of Barcelona. Spain

Coffin of King Nubkheperra Intef. Detail. 17th Dynasty. Second Intermediate Period. Around 1600 BC. From Dra Abu el-Naga (Thebes, Egypt). British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Egyptian skulls
Egypt. Skulls. Initial Late Period. One of them is dated after 664 BC. 26th dynasty or Saite Period (672-525 BC). From cemetery near Tura. The other has uncertain date and unknown origin

Egyptian skull. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Mycenaean art. Greece. Funerary Mask in gold foil embossing. Found in Tomb IV at the Acropolis. Mycenae. Dated in 1580 BCE. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Mycenaean art. Greece. Funerary Mask of Agamemnon in gold foil embossing. Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 in Tomb V, Circle A at Mycenae. Dated in 1550 BCE. National Archaeological Museum

Funerary mask in gold foil embossed. IV Grave Circle A in the Royal Tombs of Mycenae. Dated in the 16th century B.C. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

St Agnes Place, Camberwell, south east London
A terrace of houses in St Agnes Place, Camberwell, south east London, boarded up prior to demolition by Lambeth Council after the eviction of squatters, 19 January 1977

2 pesetas bill (Spain, 1938)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Advertising poster of the Soviet film El carnet del Partido (The Party's Card). Poster by Pedraza Blanco

Dead soldiers on a battlefield, WW1
Dead soldiers with their faces covered up, lying on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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