Figures Collection (page 7)

Figures of Gog and Magog, guardians set up in the Guilhall, London, after the fire

Poster Pageant - Advert for Pears Soap, Bubbles 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Poster Pageant - Advert for Edwards Soup 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well-known familiar bill board posters

The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Poster Pageant - Advert for Michelin Tyres 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Poster Pageant - Advert for Egall, Pure Dried Eggs 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Poster Pageant - Advert, Dean's Untearable Rag Books 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Guards Memorial, also known as the Guards Division War Memorial, war memorial located on the west side of Horse Guards Road, opposite Horse Guards Parade in London. Date: 1935

Some of the prominent figures in a NUWSS London procession. Also shown are some of the 70 banners carried commemorating great women through the ages. Date: 13 June 1908

Fredensborg Palace Gardens - Normandsalen - Denmark
The Valley of the Norsemen - Farmers and fishermen in stone at Normandsalen - Sculpture museum in Fredensborg, Denmark. The creator of the collection was the Norwegian post driver Jorgen Christensen

Ancient draped statues, Acropolis Museum, Athens Date: 1903

Comic postcard, Little boy doing multiplication Date: 20th century

The Venetian Arsenal, Venice, Italy
The Venetian Arsenal - a complex of former shipyards and armouries clustered together in the city of Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1950s

Fontana del Moro by Gianlorenzo Bernini, Rome, Italy
Fontana del Moro by Gianlorenzo Bernini - one of the three fountains in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. Date: circa 1950s

Font, Hereford Cathedral, Herefordshire, England Date: circa 1910s

Roman Arch of Constantine, Rome, Italy. Date: circa 1950s

Kalākaua, last king of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Vintage 19th century photograph: Kal─ükaua, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death

Figures at the Sphinx, Cairo, Egypt, c. 1880 s
Figures at the Sphinx, Cairo, Egypt, c.1880 s

West front and doorways, Rheims Cathedral, France. Date: circa 1920s

Medieval gothic doorway of a French Cathedral
Medieval gothic doorway of an unidentified French Cathedral Date: circa 1910s

Lunette carving in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, one of two with six seated apostles and an angel above. Date: circa 1920s

Ancient Egyptian Temple ruins Date: circa 1910s

Abu Simbel Temple, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s

Tunnel under railway bridge, Whitechapel, London
Tunnel under railway bridge, Whitechapel, East London, with figures emerging into sunlight. Date: circa 1930s

Misty day on the River Seine, Paris
Solitary figures on the banks of the River Seine in Paris. Date: circa 1930s

Street scene in Marseilles, France. Figures move in and out of the sunlight as they pass under an arch. Date: circa 1930s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - I ve Come to the Conclusion
The caption says I ve come to the conclusion. The conspiratorial togetherness of the two figures suggests that some very personal matter is being discussed

The Easter exodus to Le Touquet, 1925
The British Easter exodus to Le Touquet, 1925 showing the boxer Georges Carpentier and various London society figures Date: 1925

A sketch by Fish showing showing the illuminated floor of the Florida Nightclub in Paris, 1926 - the illuminated legs create intricate and ever changing geometric figures Date: 1926

Strength in Bronze, sculptures by Dora Gordine
Page from The Graphic reporting on the bronze sculptures by a young Russian girl, Dora Gordine, at the Leicester Galleries in 1928. Date: 1928

Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th century
Women of the working class in Tokyo, Edo Era, 18th century. A laundress washing clothes in a tub, a menial maid carrying water pales with yoke, servant with brush, and nursemaid with baby

Edo street scene, 18th century. A dance teacher and pupil on the left, a nori (glue) seller is beckoned by workers in a small family business

Young women and geisha on an Edo street, 18th century
Scene outside an office for servant placement with the entrance to a female bathhouse. An older woman talks to a nanny with baby and other working women

Wealthy townswomen at a house with courtyard, 18th century
Wealthy townswomen, Tokyo, 18th century. Three young chonin women gather at the house of an older woman for a meeting. A maid brings tea to a young nursing mother

Women of the merchant or artisan class. Waka poetry tutor in a daimyos house. Servants sewing, writing poems, wrapping items and carrying rice

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

Wife of the elite samurai class relaxing
Wife of the elite samurai class reading books, with other women writing with a pen, one looking at ukiyo-e prints, and one folding paper. Another woman delivers reams of paper and ink

Japanese women picnicing in a field, Tokyo, 18th century
Japanese women picnicing in a field outside Tokyo, 18th century. Women smoking a tobacco pipe while waiting for a soba-shop woman to bring a kettle and tray of noodles

Aristocratic women parading past a ?shop, Tokyo
Aristocratic women parading passing a ?yojiya, a shop selling brushes and toothpicks, Tokyo, 18th century. Young maids carry a mirror

Edo street scene, 18th century, with archery range
Edo street scene, 18th century. A shop girl sits in front of an archery range holding a bow. A tea shop girl stands on a bench with a candle. A woman and edemame seller with baby pass by

Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono walking
Woman of the nobility or courtier in silk kimono with cypress fan walking in a garden under cherry blossoms. Handcoloured ukiyo-e woodblock print by Toyokuni Utagawa from Shikitei Sanbas Ehon Imayo

London Docks, Greenwich Hospital and Chelsea Hospital. Entrance to the new London docks opened in 1805 in Wapping 85, disabled Navy pensioners at Greenwich Hospital 86

Guy Fawkes in Effigy, Bartholomews Hospital and Smithfield Market. Children begging with an effigy of Guy Fawkes on 5 November 39, men bringing a patient on a stretcher into St

The Principal Gate of the Priory of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield. Founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society

English gentleman consulting a somniloquist, 18th century
English gentleman consulting a somniloquist in his chambers, 18th century. The sleeping fortune teller lies in a bed in a room decorated with crocodile skin, Egyptian figures and incense burners

Stick figures, Dot and Line, dancing and fainting
Dottator et Lineator Loquitor. Stick figures Dot and Line dancing the poussette, hornpipe, and then fainting and being led out drunk

View and plan of Napoleons final residence on Saint Helena
View and plan of Longwood House, Saint Helena. Final residence of Napoleon Bonaparte, exiled after the Battle of Waterloo

Midshipman Newcome transferred by rowboat to HMS Vanguard
Midshipman Newcome transferred by rowboat to the HMS Vanguard near Gibraltar. Johnny in disgrace sent to another ship. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Williams

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