Merchant Collection (page 6)

4th Cross Street, Pettah, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Street scene, 4th Cross Street, Pettah, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with merchant stores and bullock-drawn carts. Date: circa 1910

Sadar Bazaar, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
Sadar Bazaar, Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), Madhya Pradesh, India, with various shops. Date: circa 1910

Negadras Uorch蠦rom Gondar, Ethiopia
Negadras UorchÞá®n traditional menswear from Gondar in the north of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). Negadras was an official title in Ethiopia given to the appointed leader of a towns merchants supervising

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Shylock
William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The Merchant of Venice. Shylock. Engraving. Colored

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Butchery
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Butchery. Miniature. Fol. 77r

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1280-1348). Effects of Good Government in the city. Fresco. Detail. Merchants in the walled city of Siena

Merchant Venice / Trial
Act IV, Scene i Portia for the defence; " In which predicament, I say, thou stand st"

Merchant Venice / Lorenzo
Act II, Scene vi Portrait of Lorenzo, suitor to Jessica

Merchant Venice / Gratiano
Act I, Scene ii Portrait of Gratiano, friend of Antonio & Bassanio

Merchant of Venice
Act II, Scene v Shylock & Jessica " Fast bind, fast find"

Merchant Seamens Orphanage, Snaresbrook - Plan
Ground floor plan of the Merchant Seamens Orphanage, Snaresbrook, North London, designed by Mr G. Somers. Date: 1863

A Bohra merchant, Bombay (Mumbai), India, belonging to the Gujarati-speaking Muslim community. Date: circa 1890s

RMS Carmania, British armed merchant cruiser, WW1
RMS Carmania, British ocean liner (Cunard Line), launched 1905, converted as an armed merchant cruiser for use during the First World War, refitted for passenger use 1923, scrapped 1932

Alfred Lohmann, German merchant and U-boat developer
Frederik Alfred Lohmann (1870-1919), German merchant based in Bremen. During the First World War he took part in the development of merchant submarines (U-boats), including the Deutschland

Children build a fantastic sandcastle on summer beach holiday
Children build a fantastic sandcastle on a beach on the Welsh coast. Date: circa 1920s

Save Food to win Wwi
A woman saves food according to rationing recommendations during World War I in order to help save ships (many merchant ships were sunk by U-boats during WWI)

Musicians with instruments on a Christmas and New Year card
Musicians with instruments on a Christmas card, with a quotation from The Merchant of Venice: I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Date: circa 1890s

La France Maritime - Merchant Seaman. 19th century

Rice Merchant and Money Lender - Sri Lanka - A Chettiar. The white horizontal lines adorning his body identify him as a follower of the Hindu God Shiva. Date: circa 1920s

Messageries Maritimes - Promotional postcard
Promotional postcard for Messageries Maritimes - a French merchant shipping company. Date: circa 1950s

Libyan Traders Houses at Zinder, Niger, Africa. An important centre of the Trans-Saharan trade with the founding of the Sultanate of Damagaram in 1736 by Kanouri aristocrats. Date: circa 1910s

The Merchant of Venice - title page - Shylock and the disguised Portia in court. 1862

Copenhagen, Denamrk - Sofartsmonumentet (Maritime Monument)
Sofartsmonumentet (Maritime Monument), Copenhagen, Denmark - monument to the Danish Merchant Navy Seamen who lost their lives at sea during World War One

Merchant Street, Rangoon, Burma, circa 1880 (Myanmar). Date: circa 1880

Wheel of Fortune. Miniature, 15th century. France
Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortuane. Concept in medieval and anceint philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate. Miniature, 15th century. France

Portraits of Rogier Le Witer, Catharina Behaghel and Magdale
Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Flemish painter. Portraits of Rogier Le Witer, Catharina Behaghel and Magdalene de Cuyper, c. 1635-1636. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Syria. Aleppo. Khan Al Nahasin caravanserai of Khan Al Nahasin. Photo before the Syrian civil war

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Selling salt
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Establishment. Selling salt. Miniature. Fol. 62v

Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543). Portrait of the Mer
Renaissance Art. Germany. Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543). German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. Portrait of the Merchant Georg Gisze, 1532

Merchant ship. 18th century. Engraving

Thomas Tryon - R Grave
Thomas Tryon (1634 - 1703) Philosopher, merchant and vegetarian

William N. Froy & Sons - exterior factory
Exterior of William Nathaniel Froy & Sons, in Hammersmith, London West. Builders merchant, manufacturing and selling fittings, including taps, baths, stoves and glass. Date: 19th century

View of Taganrog port, Sea of Azov, Russia
View of Taganrog port, Sea of Azov, Rostov, Russia, with ships of the Imperial Russian Navy, including the battleship Ioann Zlatoust (centre right, with three funnels)

Costumes of Morocco: Moor, Berber and Moorish nomads.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

World War One Mystery Towers, Shoreham by Sea, England
World War One Mystery Towers, Shoreham by Sea, near Worthing/Brighton, Sussex, England. The towers were built to protect allied merchant shipping from German U-boats

The Pool of London with ships and barges being loaded and unloaded with the distinctive outline of Tower Bridge in the distance. Date: circa 1920s

RMS Aquitania, cruise ship in war paint, WW1
RMS Aquitania, Cunard Line cruise ship, seen here in war paint during the First World War. The ship served as an armed merchant cruiser, as a troop ship and as a hospital ship. Date: 1914-1918

Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys, WW2
Arrived Safely - Thanks to British Convoys. Wartime flyer from World War Two showing civilian ships escorted safely across the sea by British planes and destroyers. Date: World War Two

WW2 poster, To the Merchant Navy, Thank You! Date: 1940s

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Cadbury Tea Dealer, Bull Street, Birmingham
Idealised street scene showing the Cadbury Tea Dealer shop in Bull Street, Birmingham, where John Cadbury was apprenticed as a young man. Date: 1820s

Portia by Henry Woods
The character of Portia disguised as a lawyer from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare by Henry Woods (1846-1921), part of a series of Shakespearean heroines

New Orleans. Camouflaged Merchant Ship (1918). Shoesmith, Kenneth Denton 1890 - 1939. Date: 1918

Kosovo - Street Market at Pristina
Street Market at Pristina (Prishtina), the capital and largest city of Kosovo. Date: circa 1906

Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier. The HMS Rawalpindi (left) was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted passenger ship - as it was at the time of this photograph - as the P&O vessel the SS)

Corn and flour merchant - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Delivering corn to the corn merchant Gledhill & Brook of 11 Victoria Street, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Holmfirth has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer

Norwood Grove House, Streatham, London, was built in 1760 - 61 for John Ambler, a hop merchant. It was extended in the 1830s and opened to the public in 1926. Date: built 1760 - 1761

Merchant ship fitted with Vickers bow protectors
Merchant ship fitted with Vickers M type paravane bow protectors, 1920 Date: 1920

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