Fairly Collection

Maps / Australia 1850S
Map showing the location of the GOLDFIELDS, so presumably made fairly soon after the start of the Australian Gold Rush in 1851

Cocktail Girls 1929
A trio of attractive young bar girls rustle up cocktails in shakers, wearing what may fairly be described as revealing outfits; its all good for business

Portrait study of a fairly young girl, identity unknown. Date: circa 1926

United States Navy - Goodyear ZSG-3 airship K-120 (BuAer number 33512), based at Oakland Naval Air Station in California, being used as a recruitment billboard for the US Naval Reserve

Blackburn B-88 YB. 1 WB797
Blackburn B-88 YB.1 WB797, demonstrating single-engined flight at the SBAC Farnborough International Air Show held from 5-10 September 1950

The Tavern
This painting depicts a tavern scene, where a maid is casually seated on a table, with one foot resting on a chair, enjoying a conversation with a man sat beside her

Shadowy Bridge
A painting, fairly minimal in detail, showing a river spanning arch bridge, with a large number of people gathered underneath. Date: circa 1916

Unrepentant
A simple illustration of two figures looking fairly smug, with no regrets in the world. Date: circa 1916

Portrait of a Child
A portrait sketch of a young girl, looking fairly serious, with mussed hair. Date: circa 1915

The Stadium
A watercolour painting, showing a fairly small amphitheatre-like stadium structure, showing a crowd of spectators, watching an event at the centre circle. Date: circa 1924

Dutch Peasant
A pen and ink portrait of a Dutch peasant man, looking fairly disgruntled. Date: circa 1932

Misty morning, St Jamess Park, London
A misty winter morning in a fairly deserted St Jamess Park, London. Date: circa 1930s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 459
Lepidoptera: Nonagria vectis Curtis = Rhizedra lutosa (Isle of Wight Wainscot)

English Street, Downpatrick - a street scene looking downhill, fairly deserted. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Downpatrick). Date: circa early 1900s

Puccini Photo
GIACOMO PUCCINI fairly early in his career Date: 1858 - 1924

Volcanic Coast Scene
A fairly placid volcano dominates the coastline at Ternate, in the Moluccas of Indonesia, where a steamboat and a sailing boat sail on an equally placid sea. Date: 1883

Persepolis - the Ruins
A fairly romanticised view of the ruins of Persepolis, prior to excavation, most of which was carried out by the Institute of Chicago in the 1930s. Date: 1823

Navy Office Broad St
At a time when Britannia could fairly claim to rule the waves, the Navy Office in Broad Street was a hive of activity, though theres no sign of it in this print. Date: 1750

MAP AFRICA
Portuguese and other early navigators got the African coast fairly well, but the interior, including the source of the Nile, is somewhat fancifully depicted. Date: 16th century

Catherine Dss. Rutland
CATHERINE (nee Noel) duchess of RUTLAND wife of John Manners, first duke. (We are fairly but not absolutely sure that this is she...) Date: ? - 1733

Poincare Early
RAYMOND POINCARE French statesman, fairly early in his career, as ministre de l instruction publique. But one of these days he will be President... Date: 1860 - 1934

John Wall Callcott
JOHN WALL CALCOTT Musician, performer and composer, best known for his glees. He was liable to fits of insanity, but otherwise his career was fairly successful. Date: 1766 - 1821

The May Queen with attendants, Mid Wales
A group of children dressed as nymphs or fairies, and four attendants with feathered headdresses, with a young woman, probably the May Queen, enthroned at the centre

Fairly Tree d
A soldier disguised rather improbably as a tree, scampers gingerly through the mud of the West Front, doing his best to avoid a cluster of enemy shells falling nearby

Queen Annes Bath, London, 1859
Engraving showing Queen Annes Bath in the basement of a tenement house in Endell Street, London, 1859

Adam Czartoryski
ADAM GEORG, furst CZARTORYSKI Polish statesman, fairly early in his career

The Winans Ocean Steamer, 1858
Engraving of the Winans Ocean Steamer cigar ship, launched at Ferry Bay, Baltimore, on 6th October 1858

A Surf-Boat, Sri Lanka, 1887
Engraving of a Sri Lankan (then Ceylon) surf-boat, under sail, riding the waves, from The Graphic, 1887

Constitution in Napoli
Though Ferdinando of Naples /Two Sicilies opposes independence, he grants a fairly liberal constitution which delights the populace

Ethiopia / Genater
We have not been able to identify this place, but we are fairly sure it is in Ethiopia

Stirling Downed by Me109
A Messerschmitt 109 poses before the British Short Stirling bomber it brought down - it has lost three of its engines - and the fourth looks fairly dodgy too !

John Ruskin / Young Man
JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer as a (fairly) young man

Dog Collar Maker
The trade card of Tachot, fabricant, specialising in dog collars, whose premises are in the Palais Royal, Paris, at no 34 in the Galerie Montpensier, a fairly posh address !

Female Type / Demure 1910
A demure young woman in a fairly modest dress

Bergamo, Lombardy
Fairly crude early engraving of the city of Bergamo seen from above showing the fortified walls and surrounding countryside

Ruins Dougga Tunisia
The Temple of Celestis at Dougga (or Thugga) is a fairly well-preserved relic of Roman days

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