Faces Collection (page 10)

A printers portrait gallery, 1885
Amusing portraits created from type faces, after an American magazine. The man who does not advertise is contrasted with the man who does advertise. 1885

Theatre going: audience in the pit
A theatre audience enjoying a performance from the view of the pit. Date: c.1850

Theatre going: the audience, 1858
An array of upper class characters find their seats before a theatre performance begins. A young man clutching a pair of opera glasses stares dolefully up at a box containing a young lady

Theatre going: audience mirth
An upper class theatre audience enjoying a performance of Gloriana at the Globe Theatre. Date: c.1850

Twins in a small sofa, Date: C. 1910

Morocco - Tetuan - Street Traders - Berber women from the Moroccan Riff Mountains, who do not permit their faces to be seen. Date: circa 1910s

Blesbok Antelope
The Blesbok (Damaliscus albifrons) is thought to be the worlds only naturally purple animal. They are purplish antelopes with white faces, found in South Africa. Date: 1960s

Durham Cathedral Corbels
Comical Corbels - some of the faces carved into the corbels above the Chapter House of Durham Cathedral, built between 1093 and 1133. Date: 12th century

Silhouette portraits in caricature
A series of silhouette portraits in caricature, probably German, from the first half of the 19th century. Date: c.1820

Eight faces looking over a wall -- they are expecting the King and Queen to pass by. first published 1879

Faces of racial types, Botocudo tribe
Faces of racial types, of the South American Indian Botocudo tribe of eastern Brazil, known for wearing wooden disks (tembetas) in their lips and ears

Gibson girl wallpaper - suitable for a Bachelors Apartments. Date: circa 1910s

Irving / Rip / Koatskill Mtn
Rip encounters the odd inhabitants of the Koatskill Mountains. Date: First published: 1819

Morning ablutions at a Pembrokeshire scout camp
Boys having fun washing their faces at a Pembrokeshire scout camp

London Life front cover featuring the model Ro
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

British officers and arabs outside a building, Middle East
Four British officers and two Arab men outside a building, somewhere in the Middle East

Union Workhouse, Tetbury, Gloucestershire
The Tetbury Union workhouse, Gloucestershire. Loitering outside are a number of people - some small children, several labourers, and an older man with a stick

Friederichstrasse, Berlin, Germany
A wonderful three-section fold-out postcard of the Friederichstrasse in Berlin, Germany. The detail is superb, right up to the expressions on the pedestrians faces, horse cabs

Maori carving, Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand
A Maori carving over the entrance to a Marae (meeting place or house) in Kennedy Bay, Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand

Hudsons Bay Inuit Mother and Daughter

Self-portrait and study of a young girl
A study of the head of a young girl and self-portrait (both in pastel) by Raymond Sheppard

USA, Hawaii - three local women
Superb card depicting three Hawaiian beauties in traditional lack of costume!

Rotheneuf, France - Emerald Coast - The Rock Carvings
Rotheneuf, France - The Emerald Coast - The Rock Carvings. The village is a seaside resort but is famous for its sculpted rocks, " rochers sculpts"

Babies from many racial groups in Istanbul
The Taste of Milk - 50 babies in Istanbul at the Lazarist Mission, who are Turkish, Greek, Armenian, Syrian and Israeli!

Variety Theatre, Bransby Williams
Displayed upon this artists painting pallet are the many faces of Bransby Williams 1870 - 1964, English stage actor, also in early films

Testing Candidates for the Post of Milk Sourer at a Cream Cheese Factory. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

1950s cosmetics
Two women wearing make up recommended for the skin tones. Above is make up devised by Helena Rubinstein for fair skins with all dark colours and black

Driving cattle for rent in Ireland
A mans livestock is being driven away in lieu of outstanding rent. The owner and his family can only stand by and watch. Two young women carrying wood and water stand sadly

Keeping Home Fires Burning
Humorous depiction of a cheery soldier and sailor home on leave during World War I and feeling that the pessimism of the Home Front

Emigration. The land of Promise. Emigrants Catching their Fi
Moving illustration showing in close up the expressions on the faces of young emigrants as their ship enters the St Lawrence River and the passengers catch their fist sight of Canadian land

Crew members of the emigrant ship, Indus, 1872
Engraved portraits of some of the ships crew: a black cook and other weathered faces

Distorting Mirror
Photographer takes picture of men and women reflected in a distorting mirror

John Bull in Ireland
John Bull faces a struggle against the myriad groups factions and social problems of early 19th century Ireland

Mount Rushmore Carved Up
Supervised by Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is carved with the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and T Roosevelt, 1927 - 1941

Owen Jones Italian 86*
A series of arabesques, painted in fresco by a number of Italian artists, from designs by Raphael in the Vatican, Rome

Owen Jones Pompeian 24
Designs from various pilasters and friezes from different houses in Pompeii

Owen Jones Italian 88
A series of arabesques, painted in fresco on partially-coloured grounds, mostly from the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua

Che Guevara Placard 1983
ERNESTO GUEVARA known as CHE GUEVARA Placard commemorating the Latin American guerrilla leader, at the Ministry of Interior, Havana, Cuba

Partisan Group, Odessa
A group of cheerful Soviet Partisans at Odessa, on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine

Settler / Downhill / Outing
A wagon carrying a heavy load of ore in the mining country, faces a white knuckle ride down the hill

Beauty Spots C17
Fashionable ladies of late 17th century London stuck stars and suchlike ornaments onto their faces, believing they made them attractive

Russian Wedding Feast
The village priest officiates at the wedding feast : evidently the matter is one to be taken seriously, judging by the solemn faces

Hannibal / Allegorical
SECOND PUNIC WAR : A rather allegorical depiction of Hannibal with his army and his elephants. He faces the Romans across the water

Dining by Oil Lamp
Paraffin lamps light up an al fresco outdoor evening drink after a hunt

Hogarth / Physicians
The Company of Undertakers

Chinese Physiology Syst
The Chinese system of physiology - how your facial characteristics reveal your character

Harpies / Johnstone
Though Johnstone includes the harpy in his natural history of birds, they are only half- birds, having human faces; they have nasty habits and they smell awful

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