Life Collection (#89)

Scandinavian Furniture
The kind of furniture you d see on the stage for one of Ibsens dramas of domestic life. Date: 1869

Conger Eel & Sharp Nosed
Two eels on a city riverbank: 1. conger eel 2. sharp nosed eel Date: circa 1860

Jewish Life / Middle Ages
Jewish life in Germany during the middle ages

After Students Duel 3
Medical inspection after a Mensur (fencing bout) - the duellist hopes he will be scarred for life Date: circa 1905

Boy Taken by Shark / 1901
A boy is taken by a shark (although it is not certain that this photo is genuine) Date: 1901

Sea-Horses & Pipe-Fish
Sea-horses and pipe-fish

Charlotte Bacon
Lady CHARLOTTE BACON a friend Date: circa 1800

Nun at the Window
A young nun looks through her window and contemplates life outside the convent walls : did she make the right choice, she asks herself... Date: early 19th century

International Night Life magazine
Cover for International Night Life magazine, New York, 1938, featuring the dinner and supper shows Plaisirs de Paris and Montmartre a Minuit at the International Casino (Broadway & 45th Street)

International Night Life magazine, New York
Cover for International Night Life magazine, New York, 1937, featuring the Bravo show at the International Casino (Broadway & 45th Street) Date: 1937

Colour plate of the early life of Queen Victoria and Prince
This vibrant colour plate depicts early scenes from the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Around the margin are portraits of their children as adults

Guy Fawkes reprimands trespasser
A life-like effigy of the famous Gunpowder Plot conspirator reprimands a schoolboy who has trespassed, having climbed a ladder over a fence to take fruit from the store shed

Palemon kisses Ondine and dies in her arms
Palemon kisses Ondine, despite knowing that this will be fatal, and dies in her arms. Illustration to a fairytale by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, first published 1812

Thumbelina finds a Swallow by the Moles tunnel
Thumbelina finds a Swallow lying apparently dead at the entrance to the Moles tunnel. She wraps him in cotton wool, and the warmth brings him back to life

British Ballad, Sir Cauline, Knight
SIR CAULINE (Sir Cawline) British ballad telling the story of Sir Cawline who is in love with the kings daughter and has to do some great deed to be worthy of her

Gathering before a Hunt - The Meet

Murallas panama life
Murallas Panama life

Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal

London Life front cover, 24 September 1966
Front cover of London Life, the short-lived but very groovy magazine which captured the style and spirit of sixties London briefly from 1964 to 1966

Double page spread in a diary for 15-20 March
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 15-20 March. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

All the Fun of the Furs, London Life fashion spread 1966
Dyed black musquash suit from Fab Furs at 158 guineas, black crocodile shoes from John Smith collection at Fenwick, worn with a black musquash cossack hat from Herbert Johnson

German Family at Table
The family of a German burgher share a meal together round a table. The son of the family says grace while one of the smaller children appears to be sitting dangerously close to a roaring fire

Doe Lea Village, Mining
Village life in Doe Lea in the 1960 s, a mining village in Derbyshire, England. A young girl on roller skates on a street of Victorian terraced housing

Mevagissey coastguard
The uniformed coastguard at Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, sits in his office and takes a phone call, perhaps an emergency call

The Lighter Side by Bernard Hugh
A Tommy (on furlough pending discharge): Blimey! I should fancy I had my bathing costume on. A soldier returning home weighed down with a greatcoat, boots, rifle

London Life front cover featuring Ungaro
Front cover by Brian Duffy of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

Frank Gray, Liberal MP
In the late 1920s, former Oxford Liberal MP Frank Gray (1880-1935) disguised himself as a tramp to experience first-hand the life of such individuals

Frank Gray, MP, disguised as a tramp
In the late 1920s, former Oxford Liberal MP Frank Gray (1880-1935) disguised himself as a tramp to experience first-hand the life of such individuals

Man with fish for smoking
A man in overalls holding two racks containing fish, ready for smoking in a barn

Man dressed up to celebrate Dickens Day
A man dressed up in vaguely Victorian gear for Dickens Day, to celebrate the life and work of the novelist Charles Dickens

Lifeboat, Freeport, Long Island
Lifeboat, Point, Lookout, Freeport, Long Island Date: c. 1910s

Zoology of the Antarctic Regions drawn by Dr. Wilson
A series of heads of the Adelie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae, drawn by Dr Wilson, who accompanied and died with Captain Scott on his fateful expedition to reach the South Pole in 1912

Sir Edward Twining
SIR EDWARD FRANCIS TWINING British peer and civil servant. Educated at Lancing and Sandhurst, after being commissioned in 1918, he entered Colonial Administrative Service in 1929

Country pastimes by John Hassall
A group of young boys lark about during harvesting, running amok in a cornfield and fishing in a pond

Trooper - 1st Regiment of Life Guards. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Banks of Filing - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Companys Home Office Building in New York City. A view of the filing section - then, the largest outfit of steel filing cases in the world!

Life at Monte Carlo
Well-to-do holiday-makers sit outdoors, enjoying the blue skies and sunshine of Monte Carlo as well as a drink or two

A ladys need (or not!) for a man
I ve got a parrot that can swear and a monkey that can smoke cigarettes, what do I want witha young man?. Satire on a ladys need (or lack thereof)

Life on board a man-of-war
Life in the British navy on board a man-of-war. 1. Playing up the colours, 8am; 2. A Corrobborie in the gun room on Saturday night; 3. Taking up the slops; 4

Lance Corporal of the Life Guards
A Lance Corporal of the Life Guards (Mounted Review Order). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Aberdyfi (Aberdovey), Wales - Motor Launch
The Motor Launch The Pride of the Midlands, bound for Aberdovey (now Aberdyfi). The three portraits above the photograph of the boat are of the Skipper, the Mate and the ships Engineer

Telescope Man - Westminster
A wonderful photographic postcard depicting Big Bens Telescope Man under the Boadicea Statue, Westminster. The statue was sculpted by Lord Thomas Thorneycroft (1815 - 1865)

Family wearing gas masks
A family wearing gas masks on a quiet night in at home during World War II

Lon Charles Bienvenu / Demare
Lon Charles Bienvenu (1835-1911) French journalist and writer known for his biting satires on political and social life known by his pen-name Touchatout

Piccadilly Circus, London, on Derby Day
Traffic on the morning of Derby Day in Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, London

Bohemian Women enjoying the high life
Gypsy Bohemian women in Turkey indulging in the high life

France - Awaiting transport to the New World
A large crowd of emigrants (likely to be Basque Breton fisherfolk) await their passage to the New World at Fecamp, possibly heading to Miquelon or Quebec

In the trenches 1917
Soldiers of the 6th Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment eating dinner in the trenches at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1917

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