July Collection (page 14)

The House That Jack Built
A photograph of a toy displaying figurines from the nursery rhyme, The House That Jack Built, including a windmill, the bags of malt, a cat, the rat, the cow with a crumpled horn

Caricatures
A photograph showing a series of five toy characters, in caricature style with abnormally large noses, dressed in uniforms of similar but different professions. Date: circa 1916

Ypres
A detailed etching or engraving of some people at a stall placed outside an inn or town hall at Ypres, Belgium. This area was destroyed during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

The Gravediggers
A painting depicting some worn gravediggers, with buckets and shovels, having made a deep, square hole. Date: circa 1916

Vieille Maison A Malines
An architectural engraving of an old house in Mechelen, a city in Belgium. The front face has some repetitive ornate designs above each series of windows. Date: circa 1916

Winter Landscape
A colourful painting showing a farm settlement with fenced fields and barns in winter, trees are casting shadows which stretch over the land and a swam of birds can be seen in the sky

Forest Clouds
A landscape etching of some huge clouds which can be seen above the tips of trees in a forest. Date: circa 1916

Cutting Bracken
This painting shows three farmers working on cutting the bracken, one of them is looking out towards the large sloping landscape of yellow fields. Date: circa 1916

Greenwich Village, New York
A painting of Greenwich Village, a neighbourhood of tree lined streets in New York, USA. Date: circa 1916

Hyde Park in Spring
A painting of various families walking through Hyde Park during Spring, some are sitting on the benches close by, located in Central London. Date: circa 1916

The Barge
A painting of a large green barge with red sails, docked beside a smaller row boat at a wooden platform. Date: circa 1916

Blue Robed Figure
A painting showing the lonely figure of a young person wearing blue robes, sitting on some fine terrace pillared walls. Date: circa 1916

Study In The Tropics
A portrait painting study of a bot sat on a rock edge, wearing a blue outfit with a green flat cap, looking out towards the ocean in the tropics. Date: circa 1916

Trees In The Wind
An etching of some trees, with ivy entangled around the trunks, during a windy day in the countryside, some crates can be seen on the left. Date: circa 1916

Landscape Horses
A painting of two strong workhorses, accompanied with their owner, standing in the countryside. Date: circa 1916

Portrait of an Old Woman
A portrait artwork of an older woman, seated, wearing some work robes and a simple hood. Date: circa 1916

A Quiet Country Road
A landscape etching of a cloaked man travelling down a peaceful country road, with bushes and trees to each side. Date: circa 1916

The House By The Church Candebec
This artwork shows the figure of a man, shrouded in darkness, as he leans on a wall of house, partially lit in the evening, noted as being a building close to the Church Candebec. Date: circa 1916

Queen Of The Fairies
This sculpture shows a ballerina girl standing in an artistic pose, where her torso is bent slightly, with palms facing upwards, almost in a gesture of self protection. Date: circa 1915

Ostende
This painting shows a heavily populated beach in Ostend, on the Belgian coast, with a row of grand buildings lined in the background. Date: circa 1915

Primitive Buildings
This artwork shows a ladder, leaning against the side of some primitive hut style buildings in the countryside, a large tree sits beside a fence in the foreground. Date: circa 1915

Countryside Town
A painting of a country town, with a few stores lining the edge of a crude road. A large steepled column building dominates the area. Date: circa 1915

Brick Cupolas
A painting of an industrial factory building, with brick cupolas and a large smokestack beside a reservoir. Date: circa 1915

Returning To The Trenches
This painting shows an active flurry of French soldiers in WW1, dressed in their distinctive red and blue uniform, with raised bayonets. Date: circa 1915

Outdoor Park Dining
A painting of a well attended outdoor park dining area, where each table has a colourful striped umbrella. Date: circa 1915

Green Door
An oil painting of some female figures, holding parasols, stood by a solid green door of a posh street. Date: circa 1915

Sailboats
An artwork showing some large steam and sail boats docking at a port, with calm sunlit waters in the foreground. Date: circa 1915

Old House, Lyme Regis
An etching of an old, derelict three storey house in Lyme Regis, a town in west Dorset, England. Date: circa 1915

Golders Hill Park
A landscape etching of a park clearing hill of Golders Green in London, a popular place of natural wildlife. Date: circa 1915

Le Cap Benat
A painting of Le Cap Benat a rocky point of picturesque hills and wooden areas on the Mediterranean, in the town of Bormes les Mimosas, south eastern France. Date: circa 1915

Marcela
An etching of a woman, with one hand on her hip, wearing a headscarf in a countryside landscape of dunes that are populated with goats. Date: circa 1915

Heal and Son Living Room
An advertisement photograph for Heal & Son, London based furniture and interior designers. The image promotes a range of cottage furniture inside a living room, including a plain oak dining table

Mr. Vernon-Ward's Treatment Salons
A photograph of the interior entrance hall which leads to Mr. Vernon-Ward's treatment salons, at Vere Street. The medical establishment had some fame for combatting obesity via fat reduction

Rozinka
A portrait painting of a sly looking woman, wearing a red covering with a large, fully bloomed pink rose upon her shoulder. Date: circa 1915

July Noon
A landscape oil painting of a small, but dense cluster of tall trees sat between a foreground puddled area and distant sunlit fields. Date: circa 1918

Old Country Towns
Originally drawn in September 1930, this masterful depiction of West Street in Faversham, Kent, was one of Brown's final published railway posters

Engagement of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten
Their official engagement photograph of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-) and Philip Mountbatten (later The Duke of Edinburgh) (1921-) on 9th July 1947

Duke and Duchess of York return from Empire Tour
The Homecoming of the Duke and Duchess of York from their Empire Tour to Australia (January to July 1927) on board the HMS Renown - photographed on the balcony of Buckingham Palace reunited with baby

Engineering bound volume, July to December 1910
Engineering, bound volume of the illustrated weekly journal Volume XC from July to December 1910 edited by W.H. Maw and B. Alfred Raworth

The Engineer, three bound volumes, 1910-1911
The Engineer, three bound volumes CXI from January to June 1910, July to December 1910 and January to June 1911, including in supplement Olympic launch, page 209 Olympic fitting-out

Ocean Liners - four postcards
Ocean Liner: four postcards, including American Bankers Association, showing Titanic/Olympic posted Pennsylvania July 1912 advertising traveller's cheques

White Star Line - three pocket books
White Star Line - three rare pocket books. (1) 1893 hardbound booklet of tide tables, sailings, passages, etc. published by Ismay, Imrie & Co

RMS Lusitania - bronze trench art, WW1
RMS Lusitania - extremely rare WW1 bronze trench art souvenir related to the sinking of the original Lusitania. She was sunk a mile east of Folkestone gate by German submarine U5

RMS Lusitania - captured German UC5 submarine. WW1
RMS Lusitania - rare cross-sectional postcard of the UC5, German submarine responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915

Cunard White Star, RMS Queen Mary, engineers log
Cunard White Star, RMS Queen Mary engineers log, detailing voyage no.1 (27 May 1936, Captain Sir Edgar Britten RD RNR) to no.87 (12 July 1942, Captain J G Bisset)

Cover design, Celebrities Monthly, photographs, sketches
Rare July 1895 copy of Celebrities Monthly, Actual Photographs with Biographical Sketches, published in New York, USA, including future Titanic First Class passenger and victim John Jacob Astor IV

RMS Titanic - Probate of the Will, Ernest Tomlin, victim
RMS Titanic - third class passenger and victim Ernest Portage Tomlin. Original probate and legal documentation dated 6 July 1912 relating to Mr Tomlin's estate after his death on the Titanic

Dividing Princess Beatrice's Wedding Cake, Windsor
Soldiers in the Barracks of Windsor Castle divide up the remains of Princess Beatrice's wedding cake. Princess Beatrice (1857-1944) was the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria

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