Holding Collection (page 2)

Four frogs ice skating on a Christmas card
Four frogs ice skating hand in hand on a Christmas card, with comic verse below. circa 1890s

Accipiter striatus, sharp-shinned hawk
Plate 374 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Clan Farquharson
clan FARQUHARSON holding a pike

Good Night ! by David Wright
Good Night! by David Wright showing a blonde woman in typically revealing night attire, holding a luxurious feather fan and looking at her reflection in a Venetian glass mirror

Chichester Market Cross
The Market Cross at Chichester, West Sussex, at 1.30pm : a helpful policeman is holding back pedestrians while the gentleman takes his picture

German circus scrap -- dog jumping through a paper hoop. 19th century

Lieutenant-General Rowland, Lord Hill, 1819.Oil on canvas by George Dawe (1781-1829), 1819.Full-length portrait in general officers uniform, wearing Bath Star and Waterloo Medal

Sheet Music Suffragettes Humorous One or Two Step. Written by Montague Ewing, cover illustration by Reginald Rigby with suffragettes in the colours, one holding a hammer

Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland - A. (at extreme right) is Miss Belle Sherwin, President, National League of Women Voters; B. is Judge Florence E

Poster advertising Acel chamois leather for cleaning cars, showing a chauffeur in green uniform holding a miniature red car. early 20th century

David Wright woman holding black negligee
Elegant naked woman sitting on a red and gold couch, holding a flimsy black negligee or underskirt. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Choirboy singing solo in a church, Horley, Surrey
A choirboy singing solo in front of a modern stained glass window at Salfords Church, Horley, Surrey. He is holding a book entitled English Praise

Queen Victorias First Council, Kensington Palace, 1837
Engraving showing Queen Victoria holding her first council with the British government, eleven am on the morning of her accession, 20th June 1837

Badoit Discovered
A druidess of Ancient Gaul, holding the sacred mistletoe, reveals to a group of warriors the spring which to this day gives us naturally sparkling BADOIT MINERAL WATER

Huckelberry Finn / Rabbit
Huckleberry holding up a rabbit he has just shot

Characterful old lady with her knitting
A characterful old lady sits in a chair, holding a few rows of knitting in front of her as she looks thoughtfully into the distance

Poster advertising Union Castle cruises: the goings good!

Bra - vo by David Wright
Bra-vo by David Wright, showing a blonde model holding her bra. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Hugh of St Victor / Thevet
HUGH OF SAINT VICTOR Saxon or Flemish theologian and mystic

Tommy Dorsey / Postcard
TOMMY DORSEY Jazz musician

Saint Andrew (Butler)
SAINT ANDREW one of Jesuss apostles, he is depicted holding the cross on which he will be crucified

Antony of Padua
The Italian saint is depicted holding the infant Jesus, though in historical fact the two never met

Last photograph taken of Queen Alexandra at Sandringham
Last photograph taken of Queen Alexandra (1844 1925) consort to Edward VII, at Sandringham Estate, Norfolk, holding her favourite dog Pekingese. Date: 1925

Zulu Warrior
An old Zulu warrior, (full length photograph) in native costume, holding a baton, spear and shield, Hluhluwe Game Reserve, Natal, South Africa. Date: 2004

Behind the Scenes at Theatre de L Abri, Paris, France
Behind the Scenes at the erotic revue performed at the Theatre de L Abri, Paris, France with principal dancer Louis Espinoza - Le Ballet des Nymphes. Date: circa 1910s

The Boys Of The New Home Guard
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Boys Of the New Home Guard, printed as a contibution to the Home Guard Spitfire fund

Advert for Cussons Imperial Leather soap, one of a series of ads utilising the language of the fan. Date: 1954

Christmas Evening

Two fairies clasping each other, from The Password to Fairyland -- Then they flew together and clasped in a tight embrace. 20th century

Princess Elizabeth riding as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards
Princess Elizabeth (1926-2022) (later Queen Elizabeth II) riding in the uniform of Colonel of the Grenadier Guards - pictured outside Buckingham Palace. Preparing to hold the reins of power

Marie Loftus music hall dancer and singer 1857-1940
Marie Loftus music hall dancer and singer, pantomime star. Reputation for singing risqu songs. Mother of Cissie Loftus, music hall mimic. In costume holding rose

The Lady with the Veil, 1768, by Alexander Roslin
Alexander Roslin (1718-1793). Swedish painter. The Lady with the Veil, 1768. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Colonel James Skinner holding a Regimental Durbar, 1827.Watercolour with gouache on European paper by Ghulam Ali Khan (fl 1817-1855), 1827.Inscribed in Nastaliq script lower left

Traditional method of holding dowsing rod
A man demonstrates the traditional method of holding the baguette, or dowsing rod. Date: 1693

Victorian Scrap showing Circus Performers in a Big Top Circus Ring, including a lady balancing on a performing horse and a clown holding a hoop. Date: circa 1880s

Eros and Psyche, by Canova
Eros and Psyche, close-up of the sculpture by Antonio Canova, Louvre Museum, Paris Date: circa 1910s

Queen Alexandra - Downey Photograph on a postcard
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia - 18441925) - Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII

Miss Columbia - Personification of the USA
Columbia - a historical and poetic name used for the United States of America and is also the name of its female personification (Miss Columbia)

The Old Curiosity Shop, the Marchioness playing cards
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841

Racial / French Alsace
Four women of Alsace in national costume Date: late 19th century?

Winston Churchill posing in the garden of the White House
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, posing hte the grounds of the White House, Washington, dressed in his siren suit. Churchill was in the USA for a meeting with Franklin D

The Apple by Kay Nielsen. A very pale Pierrot sits in a fantasy Garden of Eden holding up an apple picked from the tree behind, around which a snake is coiled... Date: 1932

Ballet Dancer Robert Helpmann as Hamlet
Ballet Dancer Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) as Hamlet - London, New Theatre - Old Vic Production. Date: circa 1942

Gyorgy Zala, sculpture of the Archangel Gabriel holding the Holy Crown of St Stephen and and the apostolic double cross (Millennium Monument, Heroes Square, Budapest, Hungary). 19th century

Woman police officer Annie Matthews, Hyde Park, London
Woman police officer Annie Matthews (nickname Big Ben), on duty at the childrens lido in Hyde Park, London. Before joining the Met Police, Annie worked as a housemaid at Glamis Castle in Scotland

Fantasy French postcard - Nude woman and doll
Very stylish Fantasy French postcard depicting a nude woman smiling and cradling a doll in her arm. Date: circa 1910s

Raphael Kirchner - Art Nouveau lady holding looking upward
Pretty Art Nouveau lady with a pink camelia in her hair and holding a frond looking upward - fine illustration by Raphael Kirchner. Date: circa 1903

Drunken man staggering home - about to hit lampost
Racing Illustrated - " Some delay at the post!" - a gentleman who has had a serious session at the Old Blue Bell (see 10909661) endeavours to make his way home

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