Leaning Collection

Friedrich Nietzsche
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE German philosopher

Jeeves and Wooster
In Thank You Jeeves!, Jeeves gives notice when Bertie Wooster, his employer, insists on playing the banjolele

Leaning Tower Bologna
Leaning towers of Bologna, Italy - La Garidenda and Torre degli Asinelli

Laurence Olivier / Signed
(Sir) LAURENCE OLIVIER British actor of stage and screen

Breezing Up by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Date: 1876

Railway Sleeper - Crewe Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing railway porter at Crewe Station. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Goethe / Window / Tischbein
JOHANN WOLFGANG von GOETHE German writer in Rome in 1787, looking out of the window in a relaxed mood

Lina Cavalieri, Italian opera singer and actress
Natalina (Lina) Cavalieri (1874-1944), Italian operatic soprano and actress. circa 1900

Edward Jenner / Thiriat
EDWARD JENNER Physician and pioneer of vaccination

Cartoon of Winston Churchill, British statesman
A cartoon depiction of Winston Churchill, British statesman and historian

Victorian woman (Polhill-Turner family)
An upper class Victorian woman, probably a member of the Polhill-Turner family of Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire

Streamlined Piece by David Wright, featuring a woman wearing a pale blue evening dress leaning against a chair

Charles Darwin / Column
CHARLES DARWIN Naturalist

Ulyssess Grant / Brady
ULYSSESs GRANT American Civil War General at Headquarters during the Virginia Campaign

Spooner / Cricketer
R H Reggie Spooner, English cricketer

Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician, seen here as a young man, sitting at a grand piano

Robert Stephenson / Lucas
ROBERT STEPHENSON Engineer and designer of the Menai Bridge Depicted leaning against a rock with the bridge in the background

The Two Towers, Bologna, Italy. These medieval towers, both of them leaning, are the landmark of the city. The taller one is the Asinelli Tower, the shorter one the Garisenda Tower

Stella and Chaplin Court Treatt, Cape to Cairo expedition
Stella and Chaplin Court Treatt, Cape to Cairo (South Africa to Egypt) motor expedition Date: 1925

Omani Outside Broadcast truck
Salalah Sultanate of Oman. Omani Cameraman sitting on top of the green and orange Outside Broadcast truck. Small ladder leaning against van. Grey car park next to the van with Omani signage Date: 1977

Sketch for Le Peintre, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). The artist leans back to view his work, resting his head on a womans shoulder

Pin-up by David Wright, circa late 1950s, showing a woman in a transparent black, negligee reclining on a bed, her shapely legs clad in black stockings. c.1958

Lanchester car
A Lanchester car (10 HP) and suave-looking driver in relaxed pose on a suburban street

Sir John Reith - Director General of the BBC
Cartoon portrait, Sir John Reith, 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven (1889-1971), Director General of the BBC, 1927-1938, depicted here as a giant figure towering over Broadcasting House, Portland Place

Advertisement for Facel Vega car with female model (Helen Connor). 1959

Square of Miracles, Pisa
The Battistero or Baptistery and the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Duomo Cathedral of Santa Maria Asunta in the Piazza del Duomo, the Square of Miracles, in Pisa, Italy

Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Victorian lady leaning on a large rock on the shore of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. circa 1899

Coconut palms, Nassau, Bahamas, West Indies. Date: 1924

Boy with two guns, Balham, SW London
A little boy with two guns (possibly real ones!) on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boy with two guns, Balham, SW London
A little boy with two guns (possibly real ones!) on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Poster for Candian Pacific Mont Cruises - a glamorous lady in a green dress leans back against the rail of the liner, holding a black witches hat by its lengthy bowstrings

The Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Lifeboat Coxswain Jonas Oxley, Walton, Essex
Portrait of Jonas Oxley, lifeboat coxswain of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from 1947 to 1964. Seen here standing outside the boat house. circa 1963

Pisa, Italy - View toward the Leaning Tower
Pisa, Italy - View through an archway toward the Leaning Tower Date: circa 1910s

Scottish soldier writing home on a spiral staircase, WW1
A resourceful Scottish soldier sits on a section of spiral staircase on the Western Front during the First World War to write his letter home. Date: 1914-1918

Plutarch / Thevet 1584
PLUTARCH Greek biographer and historian

Jennie Churchill / Cdv
JENNIE JEROME LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Later wife of George Cornwallis-West

John Keats / Crayon Portr
JOHN KEATS English poet

Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here in a full-length photograph, wearing top hat, overcoat and scarf, and leaning on a walking stick

The Kissing Ceremony by Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky
The Kissing Ceremony by Russian painter Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (1839-1915). Date: late 19th century

George Grossmith / 1895
GEORGE GROSSMITH (SNR) English actor, associated with the Gilbert & Sullivan operas

British Soldiers on a ship bound for Russia; First World War
Photograph showing a group of British soldiers leaning over the rail on the deck of a transport ship bound for Russia, 1916

Augustus Leopold Egg
AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD EGG English painter and friend of Dickens

William Ernest Henley / Vf
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY English man of letters, editor of the Magazine of Art and other journals

Lewis Carroll / Resting
LEWIS CARROLL alias CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON English mathematician, clergyman and writer - creator of Alice

Leaning Tower / Musicsheet
The Pisa polka

John Keats / J Severn
JOHN KEATS English poet

Gb Shaw / Munsey 1905
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish writer Sitting down leaning on the arm of a chair

MORRIS (1834 - 1896)
WILLIAM MORRIS writer, artist, designer

Reverie Date: 1890

Postcard, Little girl dreaming of her soldier - We're keeping a light in the window for you. Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Soldier in camp, dreaming of his girl. Date: 1914-1918

Architectural details of St. Marks Basilica Venice, 1823. Section through the church, plan, carved capitals, columns, etc. Spaccato della Chiesa di S. Marco in Venezia. Facade of St

Helen Silver, actress. 1938

A Young Man is Coming to see You, Father dear by Edmund Blampied. A woman is telling her father that a young man, possibly her lover, is coming to see him, perhaps to introduce himself to the father

Ruined medieval building, North Wales, with man leaning in open doorway Date: circa 1889

Thomas Robert "Tommy" Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar (1864-1930) - a Scottish whisky distiller who, along with his brother John Dewar, built their family label, Dewar's

The Mushroom Gatherer
A painting of a man leaning on a countryside fence, looking towards a grouping of tall trees beside a stone wall. Date: 1913

Ciocciara, ca. 1862, by Eduardo Rosales Gallinas
Eduardo Rosales Gallinas (1836-1873). Spanish painter. Ciocciara, ca. 1862. Oil on canvas, 125 x 75 cm. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

1920s Songcard
Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares is a popular song of the early twenties by by Blossom Seeley (1886-1974), Elmer Olson, and Vernon Stevens

Traditional Welsh Greeting - Iechyd da i Chwi!
Iechyd da i Chwi! - ('Good Health!') - Traditional Welsh Greeting from two ladies in traditional Welsh costume! Date: 1909

Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909). King of Belgium
Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909), whose birth name was Leopold Louis Philippe Maria Victor of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. King of Belgium (1865-1909). Portrait as young, as heir to the throne. Drawing by C

Alexander II of Russia (Alexander Nikolaievich) (1818-1881). Emperor of Russia (1855-1881), Grand Duke of Finland and King of Poland

Figure of Father Time, bearded old man with wings, legs in shackles, leaning on a scythe. In chalcedony. Il Tempo. In calcidonio

Saint Jude Thaddeus - attributed to Juan de Valdes Leal
Saint Jude Thaddeus (1st century AD). One of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Portrait attributed to Juan de Valdes Leal (1622-1690), circa 1660-1665. Oil on canvas (109 x 91 cm). El Greco Museum

Saint Jude Thaddeus, by El Greco (1541-1614)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541-1614). Spanish painter born in Crete. Saint Jude Thaddeus. Oil on canvas, ca.1608-1614. El Greco Museum. Toledo, Spain

Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891). German field marshal
Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891. German field marshal. Moltke in his cabinet in the German general staff palace. Berlin, Germany. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Olga Brandon, a Reminiscence of Hypatia Date: 1890s

Billie Burke (1884-1970) - American actress, famous on Broadway and in early silent film. Date: circa 1920

La Montmartroise statue, Montmartre, Paris, France
La Montmartroise statue by Theophile Camel, Square Carpeaux, 18th arrondissement, Montmartre, Paris, France

Man leaning on a fence in the countryside. Date: circa early 1920s

Cartoon, A Sort of War (Mexican Revolution)
Cartoon, A Sort of War - a satirical comment on American intervention in the Mexican Revolution

King Manziga Avungura, Belgian Congo, Central Africa
King Manziga Avungura of the Zande (Azande) tribe (son of Ugwa), Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. 1922

Nottingham. Student, Esmel May Woma in her nurses uniform leaning against the hospital door at Womans Hospital Peel Street. Her reflection is seen in the glass door. Date: 1960s

Loie Fuller (Mary Louise Fuller) American dancer doing her Serpentintanz or Serpentine Dance - London, March 8th 1912. 1912

Royal Navy captain on bridge of warship
Royal Navy captain on the bridge of a warship, leaning on the brass engine room telegraph set at Full Ahead. Date: circa 1950s

Comic postcard, Man staying at the seaside Date: 20th century

Sir Jc Bose / Photo
SIR JAGADIS CHANDRA BOSE Indian scientist Date: 1858 - 1937

Leaning Tower of Pisa pre-1900

Italy Pisa leaning tower pre-1900

WW2 - It Was Them Who Cheered Us Up
A photograph of a joyful woman pouring drinks for some troops, leaning out the windows of a Dunkirk evacuation train. Date: circa 1944

Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major, by Art Noel and Don Pelosi. Featured by Renee Houston and Donald Stewart who both can be seen in the portrait photograph

WW2 Greetings Card, Submerged
A WW2 greetings card, the image portrays a group of rather large Royal Navy sailors who have fallen asleep leaning on the unfortunate gentleman in the middle! Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon, Something Wrong - number of Irish MPs
Political cartoon, Something Wrong - John Bull considering the number of Irish MPs Date: 1891

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