Idealism Collection

The Workers May-Pole, design for a socialist poster
The Workers May-Pole, a design for a socialist poster, with a central allegorical figure, and banners and ribbons labelled with abstract ideas such as Leisure, Solidarity and Humanity. Date: 1894

French poster, The Future Lies in Socialism
A French poster which declares that The Future Lies in Socialism, showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to the octopus monster of commercialism, foreign gold

Conscientious Objectors, World War I
Conscientious Objectors doing hard labour, breaking rocks in prison during World War I

Cartoon, The Working-Man, Royal Westminster Exhibition
Cartoon, The Working-Man, from the Royal Westminster Exhibition. A satire on the Royal Academy Exhibition, where many paintings depicted working men

Housing poster, The Home I Want, with a quotation from Richard Reiss: You cannot expect to get an A1 population out of C3 homes

Lord Byron in the uniform of a Greek patriot
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) in the uniform of a Greek patriot, including a cavalry helmet which he designed himself, based on descriptions of armour in Homers Iliad

Hegel (1770-1831). German philosopher. Portrait. Engraving
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). German philosopher. Hegel in his study. Portrait. Engraving by R. Cremer. Colored

Cartoon, Boche idealism, WW1
Cartoon, Boche idealism -- a fat German with food and drink on the table and portraits of two German philosophers (Leibniz and Kant) on the wall. Date: 1915

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814). German Philosopher. Engr
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814). German Philosopher. Movement German Idealism. Engraving by J. F. Jugel. Portrait. 19th century. Colored

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854). German philosopher. Portrait. engraving. Colored

George Berkeley (1685 A?o??n? 1753), known as Bishop Berke
George Berkeley (1685 A?o??n? 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher. Engraving. Colored

Valenti Almirall (1841-1904). Colored engraving
Valenti Almirall (1841-1904). Spanish politician. Engraving at The Catalan Illustration, 1904. Colored

Cartoon, German Culture, after Ardnt, WW1
Cartoon, German Culture, after Ardnt, showing Germans in various satirical scenes, with idealistic captions about the superiority of their nation and people. Date: 1915

Saltaire, Yorkshire
The factory and model town of Saltaire, Yorkshire, built by the manufacturer Titus Salt to house the workers in his factory. Apparently there were no pubs!

FRENCHWOMAN 1795 - 2
The influence of Ancient Greece shows strongly in this high-waisted gown hanging in natural folds - expressing the idealism that inspired the dedicated Revolutionaries

Communist Food 1919
A revolutionary should not eat: a well-fed worker is just one more bourgeois

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