Leans Collection

Barrel Girl
Bottoms up! A little girl accidentally reveals the fact that her knickers match her dress as she leans over a water butt!

Girl & Beach Ball 1950S
Windswept young lady, wearing shorts & a stripey dolman (batwing) sleeved top with cowl collar leans against a large beach ball to have her photograph taken

Puccini Leans on Piano
GIACOMO PUCCINI leans on the piano, a cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth

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

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

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

Chemistry Lesson
A male teacher leans over a group of schoolboys as he explains something to them during a Chemistry lesson at Nuffield Junior School, London. Date: 1960s

Macleans Cross, Iona
Macleans Cross - named after the chief of the Clan Mac Lean

Pin-Up in Blue Shorts
A pretty blonde with plaited hair & wearing tight blue shorts & white bikini top with the straps dangling in front, leans against the trunk of a large tree

Smithfield Street C1935
A man leans against a postbox while two others sit down and watch the world go by in a Smithfield street

Oliver Twist and Camera Crew
A production still shows a camera crew filming Robert Newton and John Howard Davies in the climactic rooftop scene of David Leans 1948 version of Oliver Twist. Date: 1948

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

Fatherly Advice - A young woman leans of her Father and takes his wise words to heart. Date: 1909

Woman Looking Out The Window
A drawing possibly inspired by the Romeo and Juliet window scene, showing a woman, holding a fan, interacting with a man in the garden below, as she leans out of the elevated window. Date: circa 1918

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

Black Cloaked Woman
A watercolour painting of a rather large older woman, seemingly asleep with folded hands as she leans against a wall beside a pot of flowers

CHAMOIS HUNTER
A Swiss hunter leans on his gun with which he has just shot the dead chamois which is slung across his shoulder. Date: circa 1840

VISITING FRENCH MORGUE
An assortment of visitors to a French morgue: a soldier in uniform and a mother and her son. A caretaker leans against the barrier smoking, unaffected by the corpses. Date: 1816

Admirers - Crinoline 1850s
Promotional music sheet for A Few Words About The Crinoline, by Thomas Walker

GENERAL BERTHIER FALLS
French General Berthier, staying with his father-in-law der Herzog von Bayern, leans out of his window to see some Russian soldiers, has a stroke and falls to his death Date: 1 June 1815

Chap delighted with his parcel (Peak Freans Biscuit Box!)
A Young chap delighted to discover a parcel has arrived for him, containing a Peak Freans Biscuit Box! (or so says the hand-written message!!) Date: circa 1900s

Holding up the pillar
Three men and two small children pretend to be supporting the weight of a rather precariously leaning pillar - part of quite a grand countryside entrance way. Date: late 1930s

Gladys Cooper (1888-1971) - English stage, film and television actress - leaning against a magnificent early open-top motor car, possibly a Rolls Royce. Date: 1916

Man Hears Paul Revere Date: 1948

Family at Football Game Date: 1954

Preview of Dinner

Happy Hour Date: 1947

Calm Captain in Storm Date: 1947

Couple Eyes New Watch Date: 1950

Boy Preparing to Bathe Date: 1950

Watching Mom Bake Pie Date: 1940

Boy and Nest of Chicks

Lovers Intimate Embrace Date: 1881

2 DALMATIANS / 1938
One dog stares into the distance while the other leans out of their pen. Owned by Hurst. Date: 1938

BARMAID AND CUSTOMER
A monocled gentleman leans over the bar and banters with a barmaid. Date: 1879

Words About Crinoline
A young man leans forward in an attempt to obtain a kiss from a woman in a an extraordinarily wide crinoline who stands in anticipation beneath the mistletoe. Date: late 1850s

BILLIARD PLAYER. 1842
A billiard player leans on the table with his cue Date: 1842

Cami-Knickers Photo
A lady in her undies and gartered stockings leans cheekily on a pillar. Date: 1920s

Chinaman Chow-Chow
A jovial Chinese man is delighted with his bowl of Chow Mein and is about to dive on in for that first bite! Date: circa 1910

Parasol / Ackermann s
Cambric muslin morning dress with the skirt finished with a 13 tucks, in the French style. Pale fawn coloured spencer with cuffs & half-sleeves trimmed with full scallops

Kissing a young maid
A man leans in to kiss the neck of a young maid; she seems quite happy to be distracted from her ironing. Date: 1885

Ethiopian Woman in suggestive repose
Beautiful Ethiopian Woman in suggestive repose. The card caption reads: " Seeing something of the East and enjoying wonderful experiences". Read into that what you will... Date: circa 1930s

Irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair
A study of an irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair. He may have had a little too much to drink. Date: 1894

Huckleberry Finn / Smoking
Huckleberry leans against a tree, smoking a pipe. Date: First published: 1884

Bologna - Leaning Towers
The two leaning towers - the symbol of the City of Bologna, Italy. The taller one is called the Asinelli while the smaller but more leaning tower is called the Garisenda

Pin-Up in Corn Field
Smiling country girl in floral print summer frock leans back leisurely in a corn field after the harvest

WW1 - Comic Postcard - The Long and the Short of it
WW1 - Comic Postcard - " The Long and the Short of it". A lady and her remarkably tall fella! Date: 1916

WW1 era Comic Postcard - Boy leans in for a kiss
WW1 era Comic Postcard - A boy leans in for a kiss with his donkey cart-driving girl. She replies with the slightly devastating retort " I can drive one donkey but not two!" Date: circa 1916

Turkmenistan - Muslims pray outdoors after a storm - Friday prayers. Date: circa 1910s

She stoops to Conquer, or the Long & Short of it
She Stoops to Conquer or The Long & Short of It - a couple very in love but completely un-matched in terms of height! Date: 1907

Emile Augier, Standing
GUILLAUME VICTOR EMILE AUGIER French writer, poet and playwright of popular social dramas, leans casually on a desk. Date: 1820-1889

Train in Bad Weather
Fallen branches halt a train, and a telegraph pole leans dangerously, during a severe gale. Date: 1884

Children / Water / Bridge
A girl leans on a bridge, looking down at the water below. Date: circa 1920s

The tease
Girl in a hammock with her doll leans over to tickle her boy. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1911

Christopher Columbus nears the New World
Christopher Columbus about to set his eyes on the New World for the first time, after his perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, sighting the Bahamas archipelago on 12th October, 1492

Horse Rider in a Car
A girl in horse riding ensemble leans out of a car window waving. Date: late 1960s

Raphael Kirchner - Pretty lady looking down on pink flowers
Raphael Kirchner - Pretty lady looking down from a cream marble wall on a patch pink flowers. Her long dark hair falls down toward the blooms. Date: circa 1903

Suzhou City, China - Tiger Hill Leaning Pagoda. Date: circa 1910s

French Fantasy Beauty in see-through drape poses dramatically in front of a mysterious landscape vista. Date: circa 1910s

Actors discuss rates of pay
First Budding Actor (to second budding actor) - " Oh yes, you hear about those salaries of Twenty-five and thirty shillings, but you never get em." Date: 1901

Dutch Fashion Model
A very striking 1940s Dutch Fashion Model, wearing a plaid jacket and floppy hat and smoking a cigarete, whilst leaning nonchalantly on her elbow. Date: 1943

Lindbergh in Plane
Charles Augustus Lindbergh leans out of the Spirit of St Louis. The second picture shows the controls. Date: 1927

Dotty Frock & Tea
A young woman wearing a floaty frock in a rectangular dot fabric with cap-sleeves leans back on a fur throw while stirring her cup of tea or coffee. Date: 1930s

Japanese woman, full length, seated, facing right, playing a koto; a shamisen leans against a wall in the background. Date ca. 1877

Woman leaning out of window with rose
A beautiful woman, wearing a pink dress with ruffled sleeves and a flower in her hair, leans from her window to pick a rose, which she seems to be about to drop, possibly to her lover below

Punting - pushing off from the bank. " I can just Manage" Date: 1902

Sulky Girl C1900
A little girl leans against a wall and sulks - perhaps she has no-one to play with... Date: circa 1900

Elderly Farm Worker
An elderly farm worker wearing a flat cap and smoking a cigarette as he leans on a gate Date: circa 1960

Folklore / Dryads
A Dryad leans on a tree trunk Date: 1913

Uncertain journey / W H Robinson
A motorist leans against his car, at the onset of a journey but on seeing the traffic jam is uncertain of how to set about it

A young girl leaning backward against a wall. Watercolour sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Egypt - Turkish Woman
Ottoman Turkish Woman in Egypt, in a very fine and elaborate costume and leaning on the end of a sofa

Leaning against his motor
A tall man in relaxed pose leans against his motor car

The Childrens Treat of Syllabub
A maid leans down by a small girl, holding a bowl full of syllabub. The gaze of three other children in the background is also transfixed by this tempting dessert

Purple Armchair C1930
A woman leans against a comfortable-looking purple armchair

Boy by Gateway - 1 of 3
A small boy leans against a doorway cut into a far larger set of impressively carved wooden doors in a gateway. He is wearing a sailor suit. (Picture 1 of 3)

Lady and Bicycle
A lady in long white summer dress and boater leans on her upright bicycle at the entrance to a summerhouse or grotto in the grounds of a large country house

Boy by Gateway - 2 of 3
A small boy leans against a doorway cut into a far larger set of impressively carved wooden gates. He is wearing a sailor suit but has discarded his cap (Picture 2 of 3)

Exotic Pipe 1845
Fashionable French gentleman leans against the stone urn of a chateau to have a chat with his friend and a smoke from his extemely long pipe

Chenies Village, Bucks
A man reads a map while his bicycle leans against one of the beech trees in the quiet village of Chenies, Buckinghamshire

Atmospheric Exeter House
An atmospheric scene of an old house on a steep street corner in Exeter; two girls stand beneath the overhanging eaves while a young woman leans against the wall further down

The Half Hour Before Dinner
Humorous scene showing a family and guests, dressed in evening attire, waiting for Christmas dinner to be served

Knitwear 1948
An elegant young woman in a rust coloured cardigan and white gloves leans against a shooting stick while out in the countryside

Pin-Up / Bathrobe & Hay
Self-assured, confident brunette gazes at the viewer as she leans against a haystack with her terry towelling bathrobe falling off her shoulder

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