Pensive Collection

Yardley advertisement, 1962
Advertisement for the Lavender range of fragrances and bathroom products by Yardley, featuring an illustration of a pensive woman with large doe eyes. Date: 1962

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

Holmes Smoking Pipe
THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Holmes ponders the problem

Tattooed Victorian lady, 1897
An example of American tattoo work on a Mrs. Williams. Date: 1897

Sher. Holmes Thinking
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN Sherlock Holmes studies the case at his desk

Last of England (Colour)
THE LAST OF ENGLAND -the definitive emigration image, showing a couple in pensive mood as their ship leaves the white cliffs of England. She is clutching their baby

Yevonde Cumbers Middleton (1893-1975), also known professionally as Madame Yevonde, posing as Harlequin in a 1923 self-portrait. Date: 1923

Anna Karenina / Portrait
Illustration of Leo Tolstoys fictional character Anna Karenina

Young Edwardian woman and plant
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Woman in Blue by David Wright
Beautiful portrait of an unidentified woman by David Wright, better known for his pin ups. She sits with her arms folded and looks over her shoulder while wearing a turban style scarf on her head

John Keats / J Severn
JOHN KEATS English poet

Joan Bennett - American stage, film and television actress
Joan Bennett (1910-1990), American stage, film and television actress. Date: circa 1930s

Candid photograph - Central London - Young Woman in furs
Candid Street photograph - Central London, 1936 - A pensive young lady, wrapped up against the cold in a dark fur coat, strides purposefully along the pavement. Date: 1936

Saint John the Baptist in Meditation, circa 1495, by Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). Netherlandish painter. Saint John the Baptist in Meditation, circa 1495. Detail. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain

Saint John the Baptist in Meditation, by Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). Netherlandish painter. Saint John the Baptist in Meditation, circa 1495. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain

Victorian scrap, girl holding a bunch of flowers Date: late 19th century

The Young Apprentice by Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). Italian painter. The Young Apprentice, 1918-1919. Oil on canvas (100 x 65 cm). Orangerie Museum. Paris. France

The carlist conspirator, 1856 - Valeriano Dominguez Becquer
Valeriano Dominguez Becquer (1833-1870). Spanish painter. The carlist conspirator. Oil on canvas, 1856. Museum of Romanticism. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Spinning Virgin, 1897, by Feliks Cichocki-Nalecz
Feliks Cichocki-Nalecz (1861-1921). Polish painter. Spinning Virgin, 1897. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Indian Elegance, painting by W Sibbons

Woman in slippers seated on sofa
A woman sits on a green sofa, wearing slippers, with a cat sleeping comfortably her lap. Date: 1970s

Break, Break, Break - illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons poem. Date: c.1920

Cover design, Home Notes, September 1945. 1945

Box Lid, Victorian Christmas Crackers. 19th century

Baby girl, circa 1920s
A well-nourished baby girl named Lilian Shula, aged nine and a half months, sits thoughtfully on a couch. Date: circa 1920s

Lady Marjorie Manners drawn by the Marchioness of Granby
Lady Marjorie Manners drawn by her mother, the Marchioness of Granby. Victoria Harriet Marjorie Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (nÚÑáLady Victoria Harriet Marjorie Manners) (1883-1946)

Woman resting
Black & white photograph of a pensive woman leaning her head on chairback. Illustration from Delineator magazine January 1928. Artist anon. Date: 1928

FEMALE TYPE / BAYSWATER
A pensive Victorian woman poses in the photographers studio. Date: circa 1860

Mother and daughter 1895
I COUNT ONLY THE BRIGHT HOURS Mother and daughter are pensive as they inspect the sundial. Date: 1895

GALILEO / CHURCH OF PISA
Galileo in a church in Pisa, Italy, where he was born

View of the monument to the Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) in Moscow, Russia. It was erected in 1909 on Prechistensky Boulevard

Christian Kayssler - German Stage and Film Actor
Christian Kayssler (1898-1944) - German Stage and Film Actor - killed in a bombing raid on Berlin during the Second World War. Date: circa 1930s

Rula Lenska filming Robin of Sherwood, Cornwall
Rula Lenska in the character of Morgwyn of Ravenscar, filming the TV series Robin of Sherwood near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Date: 1980s

Ernst Busch - Sea-Star - Lost in thought Date: circa 1920

The Little Gleaner, 1884, by Hugo Salmson
Hugo Salmson (1843-1894). Swedish painter. The Little Gleaner, 1884. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

The Love Letter by William A Breakspeare -- a pensive woman sits at a writing desk. late 19th century

Pierre Janssen (1824-1907). Engraving. Colored
Pierre Janssen (1824-1907). French astronomer. Engraving by Capuz in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1892. Colored

School of Talmudists, 1887, by Samuel Hirszenberg (1865-1908
Samuel Hirszenberg (1865-1908). Polish painter. School of Talmudists, 1887. National Museum. Krakow. Poland

Colette. French Writer
SIDONIE-GABRIELLE WILLY French writer. Date: 1873 - 1954

Lady Louis Mountbatten by Madame Yevonde. Formerly Edwina Ashley, Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Vicereine of India (1901-1960). Date: 1937

Advert for Jays of London Mourning clothes
A pensive woman sits beneath a tree, modelling mourning attire from Jays of London. Her work basket is perched on a rustic table, and illustrated magazines lie discarded at her feet. Date: 1888

Lady Emily Lutyens
LADY EMILY LUTYENS nee LYTTON Wife of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (m 1897), grand- daughter of the novelist Lord Lytton, and daughter of a Viceroy of India

Evelyn Millard (1869 1941) - English Shakespearean actress, actor-manager and " stage beauty" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Beautiful woman wearing Cecil Beaton-style hat. circa 1955

Pensive Beefeater, Tower of London
Pensive Beefeater at The Tower of London, England. circa 1966

Pensive Victorian man at his desk
Pensive Victorian man seated at his desk. circa 1895

Pensive man smoking a pipe
Seated pensive man smoking his pipe. circa 1936

Francisco Camprodon Lafont (1816-1870). Engraving. Colored
Francisco Camprodon Lafont (1816-1870). Spanish writer. Engraving by Capuz (1824-1899). The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored

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