Merchant Collection (page 7)

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

Frankfurt, Germany - The Romer
The Romer (German for " Roman" ) is a medieval building in Frankfurt am Main and one of the citys most important landmarks. It has been the city hall (Rathaus) for 600 years

The Tea Clipper - Cutty Sark
The Tea Clipper Cutty Sark. Built in 1869, she served as a merchant vessel (the last clipper to be built for that purpose), and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954

Merchant Venice / Antonio
Act III, Scene ii Antonio, a merchant of Venice, seated at a table reading

Thomas Sutton
THOMAS SUTTON - statesman and merchant venturer, which earned him enough to found the Charterhouse, at first a Carthusian monastery but later a school - with his autograph

Abel Tasman attacked at Massacre Bay, New Zealand
Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-1659), Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant, is attacked by native New Zealanders at Massacre Bay (now known as Golden Bay)

Scene from Shakespeares play, The Merchant of Venice
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, The Merchant of Venice, in which Bassanio chooses the leaden casket rather than the gold or silver one, and wins Portia, a rich heiress

Wellington, New Zealand - Oriental Bay
Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India - A Bamboo Merchant and two young assistants/apprentices (his sons?) stringing a charpoy. A Charpoy is a bed or cot used in India

Grotesque Fish Merchants - Algeria
Grotesque Fish Merchants, shouting their wares up to the houses - Algeria. Date: circa 1903

Charles Coburn (June 19, 1877 August 30, 1961) billed here as The Tramp Comedian, Vocalist, Reciter and Story Merchant. The text refers to The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1890)

Steam locomotive The Merchant Venturer
Steam locomotive express, The Merchant Venturer 209. Date: circa 1960s

Sir Henry Irving as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
Famed English Actor and theatre producer Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1879). Date: 1879

American Revolution (1765-1783). First Continental
United States. American Revolution (1765-1783). First Continental Congress. September 22, 1774. Philadelphia. Manifest to request the merchants of the federal colonies

North Cape farmstead, Norway, with farming people and merchants with their ponies. One man is holding a long trumpet. Date: circa 1900

Invasion craft of MONT FLEURY, NORMANDY
Photograph: Invasion craft of MONT FLEURY, NORMANDY, 0900 hours, 7th June, 1944. In the foreground is a DUKW (amphibious 3-ton lorry)

Sailing ship Queen Margaret
Sailing ship (barque) Queen Margaret, launched in 1893. She later became stranded at Lizard Point, Cornwall, where her cargo of wheat swelled, causing the vessel to break up

Advert for Samuel Brothers boys outfits 1884
Selection of clothing for boys at different ages. 1884

Bazaar in Cairo, Egypt
View into a bazaar with various stalls and shops in Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1910

Robert Waithman - London merchant, Sheriff and Lord Mayor
Robert Waithman (1764-1833) - London merchant, Sheriff and Lord Mayor. Date: 1818

Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine - Street Cloth seller. Date: 1905

American Liberty Ship - Advance Transport
An American Liberty Ship (a prefabricated US-built freighter (emergency cargo ships) of the Second World War) - providing advance transport. Date: 1945

Itinerant street Merchants in Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1902

London Trade Card - John Edwards, Coal Merchant, at the Old Collier and Cart, Fleet Ditch, near Holborn Bridge. 18th century

Henry Irving as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
Henry Irving as Shylock in Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. circa 1879

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