Magnifying Collection

Poster, Keep ceaseless watch for Colorado Beetle
Ministry of Agriculture poster, Keep ceaseless watch for Colorado Beetle, they can destroy our potato crops. circa late 1930s

University of Oxford. College of the University and Queens College. Illustration in Vues d Optique (Perspective Views). Images to be seen through a zograscope

Medicine / Liver Pills
LIVER TABLETS - Advert for Carters Little Liver Pills

Flea illustration
Page 201 from Micrographia or some Physiological description of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses (1665) by Robert Hooke

Botanist at work
A botanist at work, studying a plant with a magnifying glass

General Alexei Brusilov
Aleksei Brusilov (1853 1926), Russian general in World War One, looking at a map with a magnifying glass to aid him

Allegorical scene with Flora, Botany, Physics and Pomona
Flora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass)

The Chocolate Soldiers, Chumpie's Plan
A wartime children's story book illustration which shows Chumpie the trumpeter, of the Chocolate soldiers, using a large magnifying glass to empower a beam of sunlight towards the approaching

WW2 - R. A. F. Studying The Pictures
A photograph portraying a British man of the Royal Air Force, studying pictures taken through a magnifying instrument. Date: circa 1940s

Indasia Advertisement
Advertisement for Indasia Eastern Perfume. The subtle fragrance of the East is harmonised in INDASIA Eastern Perfume. The illustration shows a woman with a magnifying glass

Advert for Kershaw's Binoculars
Advert for Kershaw's Sportsman Binoculars - worn like spectacles. Date: 1939

Postcard design - When can I see you?. A gardener keeping an eye (through a magnifying glass!) of a little plant slowly growing larger. Date: circa 1937

Magnifying glass
Boy with a magnifying glass. From Country Pleasures published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: May Bowley Date: circa 1910

Retouching photographic negatives
A man uses a magnifying glass to look at the details on photographic negatives in preparation of retouching them in a specially designed workroom. Date: 1863

Gentlemen geologists laboriously search for minerals in a river. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg

The Solar Microscope. Date: 18th century

Interior of the studio where the engravings using tools and magnifying glasses to produce their work. Date: 1881

PICTURE SALE / EXAMINING
Examining a picture with a magnifying glass - the next pleasing picture was Solomons judgement, where a Centinel held a fine babe oer the pavement. Date: 1821

EXAMINING A PICTURE 1821
Examining a picture with a magnifying glass - the next pleasing picture was Solomons judgement, where a Centinel held a fine babe oer the pavement. Date: 1821

Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle
Charles Darwin during his voyage on the HMS Beagle in the 1830s, when he discovered a variety of flora and fauna and begins to have thoughts about the origin of species and evolution

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Miss Peel. circa 1935

B De Jussieu / Guilleminot
BERNARD DE JUSSIEU French naturalist

Adams Universal Microscope - made by George Adams Snr. about 1755 for King George III, while he was still Prince of Wales

More Types From Harley Street by H M Bateman. Skin - The Microscopic. The one with the magnifying glass and the test tubes. Brain - The Genius. He knows all about the mind. Nerve - The Intense

Christmas card in the shape of a pair of binoculars or opera glasses. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a pair of binoculars, with three humanised birds playing snooker in the foreground. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the shape of a pair of binoculars or opera glasses. circa 1890s

Model fly for use in spying
Model fly invented by Ken Achurch for use in spying and other undercover activities. Date: 1970s

Anti-Locust Research Centre, London
Scientist examining a locust through a magnifying glass at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Examining Film Negatives
A young woman examines a strip of film or negatives through a magnifying glass. Date: 1930s

Cartoon, Giving him his place in the sun, WW1
Cartoon, Giving him his place in the sun, showing British, French, Belgian, Russian and Japanese allies working together with a giant magnifying glass to set fire to Kaiser Wilhelms jacket

Title page of Micrographia by R. Hooke

The Chalmers-Hunt Collection
Michael Chalmers-Hunt (1920-2004), a keen and highly respected entomologist, built this fascinating collection from redundant and unwanted items discarded by other entomologists and museum curators

Market Reports Series - Miniature Fish for Breakfast
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Fish: There was a poor supply this morning. A gentleman baulks at the miniature nature of his breakfast kipper

Conrad von Hotzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Army
Count Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf (1852-1925), Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the outbreak of the First World War

German army officer examining a map, WW1
An unnamed German army officer examining a map during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Applying Lipstick
Applying pink lipstick with the aid of a magnifying make-up mirror. Date: 1969

Conan Doyle / Morgan
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE British physician and writer, born in Edinburgh Date: 1859 - 1930

Examining fraudulent financial documentation - cheques and credit cards are checked for authenticity by the Metropolitan Police force

Police experts examine stolen property

Police map operator plotting the position of various police units on a large table map of london. Exact positions are found using the table magnifying glass

Pierre Vron / Gill
Pierre Vron (1833-1900) French publicist. writer, journalist and art critic, hence the magnifying glass

Silk Worms / Vernon Ward
Two leggy girls sit on a country fence and observe with curiosity the activities of an entymologist looking at a caterpillar through a magnifying glass

Botanists Botanising
Bontanists at work in the field, collecting specimens in a case after examining them with a magnifying glass

aRON BURR (1756 - 1836)
aRON BURR American political leader. Vice president of the United States (1801-5). Tried for treason in 1807. Date: 1756 - 1836

Selection of Microscopes
A selection of single microscopes

Alphonse Daudet / Gill
ALPHONSE DAUDET French writer closely examining the human heart

Advert / Chianti 1956
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