Listening Collection

The Ghost Story by Alfred Bestall
A family sit in the dark by a blazing fire, rigid with fear while listening to a ghost story told by an aged relative. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, the sceptre of a medieval knight

Che Guevara / Smoking
ERNESTO GUEVARA Known as CHE GUEVARA Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary theorist. Listening to an address in Santiago de Cuba. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT* Date: 1928 - 1967

Chopin Concert Radziwill
FREDERIC CHOPIN Prince Antoni Radziwill, a long admirer of Chopins talents invites him to play at the palace in Berlin

Frederic Chopin / Preludes
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his preludes

Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim, 1900
Queen Victoria, Empress of India, listening to a despatch describing the elation of the troops at the services they had rendered to the Queen. Her Indian servant, Munshi Abdul Karim, supports her

His Broadcast Masters Voice by George Studdy
A spoof on the famous His Masters Voice logo featuring a dog listening to a gramophone; Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy

St Hilda / Whitby / Reid
SAINT HILDA OF WHITBY Anglo-Saxon abbess, receiving a visit from Caedmon

Bonzo adds a fifth to the quartet
Bonzo, listening to music on the radio, adds a fifth to the quartet, and starts to howl. Date: 1923

Policeman at a police call box
A policeman on the phone at a police public call box on a London street

George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo with loudspeaker
George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo listening to a loudspeaker -- his masters voice, no doubt. The pencil marks/lines show potential cropping of the image for onward design usage

Penguins & Gramophone
Penguins listening to the gramophone, during the summer. Date: 1908-1909

The Tune That He Loved Best by David Wright, showing a woman sat listening to a gramaphone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Brooke and Suppliants
SIR JAMES BROOKE Rajah of Sarawak, listening to suppliants who come to him asking for his help or intervention

Listening to Records
A dreamy teenager listening to her new Astrud Gilberto LP on her record player

The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist by Pieter Brueghel the
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569). Flemish painter. The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist. Detail. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

My First Sermon by John Everett Millais
A little girl, wearing a red cape and fur muff, sits primly alert on a church pew listening to her first sermon. See Millaiss companion picture

Precocious Teenage Girl
A rather spoilt teenage girl, lying with her feet up, scoffing a box of chocolates whilst listening to her latest 78 gramophone records!

Storytelling to children on the beach during the summer
Children sitting on the beach listening to stories

John Wesley, Methodist preacher, in action out of doors at a market cross. Date: 18th century

Christmas Carols
A mid-ninteenth century scene showing a Victorian householder with his wife and children standing on their porch listening to carol singers

Listening to Records
A teenage girl with a bouffant hairdo puts her Cliff Richard album on the record player

Disraeli / Parl Speech
BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1st Earl of Beaconsfield; statesman, Prime Minister and novelist speaking in parliament. Date: 1804 - 1881

Children / Seaside Story
Children sitting on the beach listening to an old fisherman telling a story

Futuristic news broadcast
A futuristic news broadcast, where a couple relax in their sitting room and listen to the days news from a gramophone-like machine

Teacher reading to infants, Brentwood, Essex

Dr J D Cockcroft listening for atomic disintegration
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus

Children listening to a tuba player, Berlin, 1945
Photograph showing a group of children listening to a man playing a tuba in Berlin, just after the end of the Second World War in Europe, August 1945

Thomas Edison / La Nature
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Listening to the first phonogram sent to New York from England

Western passengers on a Nile steamer
A group of western passengers on a Nile steamer, listening to a young woman play the piano

Christmas 1952 by Harold White
A 1950s family sit around the fire at Christmas time listening to a wireless broadcast Streamers and paper chains hang from the ceiling and a rather mean looking Christmas tree stands in the corner

Trotting race at the Hipodromo in Sant Lluis, Mahon Menorca
A horse waits for its next trotting race at the Hipodromo in Sant Lluis, Mahon Menorca, Spain. It appears to be listening to a conversation between two men

Enoch Powell MP in Birmingham before giving a speech. His famous homburg hat is hung at the end of the coat rack. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1987

Alican Land, We Have All Had A Lesson
A WW2 children's story book illustration from The Story Of Alican Land, written by Joan Hunt. The image depicts a gathering of Alican Land animals, listening to the Prime Minister's speech

Ministers And The Republican Defence
A pair of sketches of French ministers, the first shows a man listening closely to the chest of a larger man, saying Don't worry, you have nothing on your mind

L'Heure Des Betises
This illustration's title translates to The Hour Of Nonsense, and depicts a smiling young lady listening to a floating child satyr or faun creature whispering in her ear. Date: circa 1901

Minerve Visitant Les Neuf Muses Sur Le Mont Helicon
This sketch depicts the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva, visiting the nine muses at the edge of a woodland on Mount Helicon, the site of two sacred springs, the Aganippe and the Hippocrene

Military Speaker
A pastel painting which shows a crowd of people listening to a military man, who is speaking from an elevated position, onlookers are also viewing from the high terrace above. Date: circa 1920

Malaquera
This pencil drawing captures a musical scene in which a closely packed gathering of people are listening to some guitar players outside a building in the evening. Date: circa 1920

The Teller Of Tales
This illustration shows a man, engaging with a crowd of transfixed people, eagerly listening to the stories he has to tell. Date: circa 1915

Natasha
This artwork shows two women in conversation, sat in a living room, a man is standing by listening in. Date: circa 1918

The Curtain Illustration
An illustration in reference to a poem, written by Australian poet, Zora Bernice May Cross, showing a woman in a blue dress, hiding behind a stage curtain

Caricature illustration, Highland Bull with radio aerial, with herdsman listening below. Captioned, Things seen and heard'

Gramophone, United States, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Gramophone demonstration, United States Section of Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Lifeguard observing Martial Music Date: 1894

Socrates (c 469399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosophe
Socrates (c.469-399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Socrates in prison before being sentenced to death. Colored engraving

Enver Hoxha's speech in Mallakast; Albania
A huge crowd gather in Mallakast;to hear the Albanian leader Enver Hoxha speak to the people from a balcony, along with other officials. Date: c. 1970s

Ray Bernard, left-wing campaigner, giving a speech
Ray Bernard, a left-wing political campaigner, giving a speech in the street. Various people have stopped to listen. Date: circa 1950s

David Owen, Labour and SDP politician
David Owen (David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, b 1938), British politician, served as Foreign Secretary (1977-1979) for the Labour government

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