Favourite Gallery

My Favourite Model (Mrs David Wright) by David Wright

My Favourite Model (Mrs David Wright) by David Wright. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940's. David Wright's Lovelies proved hugely popular and adorned practically every military mess, bunker, dormitory or club room in the country during World War II

© Estate of David Wright/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Favourite Sayings - You can't catch the wind in a net

Black and white lantern slide of a man standing on a bank holding a rod with a net painted in at the end. Painted background of countryside.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection. You can't catch the wind in a net. Lantern slide creations of C. H. Spurgeon's (a British Particular Baptist preacher, 1834-1892) illustrated John Ploughman's Pictures. Date: circa 1890s

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

Plumed cockscomb or silver cock's comb, Celosia argentea

Plumed cockscomb or silver cock's comb, Celosia argentea (Cock's-comb, Celosia cristata). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Step's Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

© Florilegius

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