Moral Collection (page 4)

Children playing in a nursery
A large group of children play at a table in a nursery. One vain little girl, standing near the door, is in her finery. Date: 1859

Satire on ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments
A moral dilemma. Satire on the ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments on animals. Date: 1889

Christmas card with holly in the middle of a maze, and a moralising verse. Date: circa 1890s

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Z, showing Zaccheus (Zacchaeus) climbing a tree in order to see Jesus. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Y, showing a group of people enjoying Christmas by a large fireplace where a yule log is burning. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- X, showing Moses with the Ten Commandments. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- W, showing a windmill on a windy day. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- V, showing a group of children going on a trip in a horse-drawn van. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- U, showing two children sheltering from the rain under an umbrella. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- T, showing a steam train emerging from a tunnel. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- R, showing a girl called Rosa with rabbits and roses. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Q, showing a portrait of a young Queen Victoria. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- P, showing a mother teaching her child to pray. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- O, showing an organ grinder with a group of children. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- L, showing a lighthouse and some lemons. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- M, showing a milkmaid milking a cow on a moor. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- N, showing a boy selling newspapers on a street. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- K, showing three boys about to fly a kite. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- J, showing a judge in his robes. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- G, showing a grandfather and grandchild looking at a gold watch. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- I, showing a mother and her infant. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- H, showing a hen and her chicks in a farmyard. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- F, showing two children with fruit and flowers. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- D, showing two girls with a doll. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- E, showing eggs in a birds nest, and an egg in an eggcup. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- C, showing a girl and her dog. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- B, showing a boy reading a Bible. Date: circa 1860

Frontispiece, The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Feed My Lambs, St John XXI XV (Chapter 21, Verse 15). A young mother reads a book to her two children. Date: circa 1860

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- A, showing people gathering apples in an orchard. Date: circa 1860

Title page, The Mothers Picture Alphabet, dedicated by Her Majestys Permission to HRH the Princess Beatrice, designed by Henry Anelay, engraved by James Johnston. Date: circa 1860

New Year greetings card with children and moon
New Year greetings card (inside pages) with children, crescent moon and a moral verse. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Little boys birds nesting on a Christmas card, with a warning about greed. Date: circa 1890s

French Theatre -- La Farce du Munyer
La Farce du Munyer [Meunier], a play by Andre de la Vigne, in which the Devil carries off a millers soul to Hell. Showing a delighted Devil in orange costume

YMCA Building, Galveston, Texas, USA. Date: circa 1906

ZORRILLA Y MORAL, Jos頨1817-1893). Spanish Romantic
ZORRILLA Y MORAL, Jos頨 1817-1893). Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist. Engraving

Sicily - Politeama in Palermo
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of a circular building, the Theatre Politeama, which has mounted statues galloping on the roof

Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 11
This is the text which the good pastor chose, And the light on the soul of the drunkard arose, As he sat in the church, to which one Sabbath-day, Along with his wife he had taken his way

Richard Price (1723 - 1791), Welsh moral philosopher. Dissenting minister in London; established reputation with Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1758)

Cartoon, The Glad Hand, WW1
Cartoon, The Glad Hand -- Brother Jonathan (representing the USA) tells Kaiser Wilhelm to wash his hand first, before shaking it

Cartoon, Our Society Portraiture, Mrs Grundy. Showing just the face, hat and folded hands of a docile-looking Mrs Grundy, the proverbial Mary Whitehouse figure of the early 20th century

Diogenes and Alexander
The story of Diogenes (who lived in a barrel) and Alexander, acted out by a monkey (as Diogenes) and a Mastiff Dog (as Alexander)

William Wollaston - 1
WILLIAM WOLLASTON moral philosopher Date: 1660 - 1724

William Wollaston - 2
WILLIAM WOLLASTON moral philosopher Date: 1660 - 1724

John Wilsons Home
The home of JOHN WILSON, Scottish editor, author and moral philosopher, at Elleray. Date: 1785 - 1854

John Wilson Birthplace
The birthplace of JOHN WILSON, Scottish editor, author and moral philosopher. Date: 1785 - 1854

John Wilson - 2
JOHN WILSON professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh, journalist and writer, under the nom-de-plume Christopher North, editor of Blackwoods Magazine. Date: 1785 - 1854

John Wilson
JOHN WILSON professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh, journalist and writer, under the nom-de-plume Christopher North, editor of Blackwoods Magazine. Date: 1785 - 1854

Isaac Watts
ISaC WATTS churchman and writer of moral and uplifting verses for the infant mind... Date: 1674 - 1748

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