Room Collection (page 17)

Comic postcard, Plump woman at the seaside Date: 20th century

The new rooms in the National Gallery
Visitors admiring the new rooms in the National Gallery. Date: 1876

The Nineveh Room at the British Museum. Date: 1853

The accommodation of the Chelsea pensioners designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Each ward had 36 veterans sleeping in old oak cubicles with little curtains that could be drawn across

View of The Chop Room fireplace inside the atmospheric Old Cheshire Cheese pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

A cosy corner in the Old Cheshire Cheese, the famous old pub off Fleet Street in London. Date: 1884

The Chop Room inside the Old Cheshire Cheese pub off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

A family, three adults and a little girl, sitting in a rustic, trellis garden room outside. They re drinking wine so are likely to be French! Date: 1890s

Dressing Room Footlights dedicated to the costume designer Dolly Tree, 1931 with instructions of how to make a little French peasant dress Date: 1929

Guest being welcomed formally into a hotel, Japan, late 19th century

WW II - German officers surrender to General Montgomery
End of World War II - German officers surrender to Field Marshall Montgomery, Luneberg Heath, May 5th. Major Friedal, Admiral Wagner, Admiral von Friedeburg, General Kinzel, Colonel Poleck

Woman playing koto stringed musical instrument, Japan
Young woman playing a koto stringed musical instrument, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Two young women reading and staying warm, Japan
Two young women reading and staying warm under blankets around a stove beneath a kotatsu table, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Processing tobacco leaves, studio scene, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Two young women and a mosquito net. Vintage 19th century photograph

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (1867 - 1906), English / American writer
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (1867 - 1906), English/American writer, nom de plume: John Oliver Hobbes, pictured in her study, surrounded by bookcases as she writes at her desk

Isobel Violet Hunt (1862 - 1942), British author and literary hostess; writer of feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers Suffrage League in 1908

Arthur George Morrison (1863 - 1945), English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in Londons East End, and for his detective stories

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853 - 1931), writer, pictured in a charming Arts and Crafts room at his home in Wimbledon. Part of a series in The Tatler of photographs of literary figures at home

Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956), writer and dramatist, pictured in his study at home in 1905, part of a series of photographs in The Tatler showing literary figures in their homes. Date: 1905

A Communist Club-Room in Leicester Square
A Communist club-room in Leicester Square - French refugees in London

Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Banqueting Room - Mayors Ball
Royal Pavilion, Brighton - Banqueting room laid out for the Mayors Ball

This is where we won the war - Ops room, Biggin Hill
Sketch by Captain Bryan de Grineau of the deserted operations room at Biggin Hill in September 1945. Date: 1945

Syrie Maugham
Article in The Sphere by Derek Patmore profiling interior designer Syrie Maugham, wife of the novelist W. Somerset Maugham

Miss Evelyn Hope Date: 1907

The Control Room of a Civil Defence Centre. Date: circa 1941

First-aid party training in Furnace Room of an Iron Foundry
A First-aid party training in the Furnace Room of an Iron Foundry. Date: circa 1941

The Building Squad of the N. F. S
The Building Squad of the N.F.S. (National Fire Service) - building a control room for the Fire Station. Many members of the N.F.S

A member of the Wardens Service fitting a gas mask
Shorlty after the Munich Agreement, a member of the Wardens Service (and his assistant - far right) - not yet issued with their uniforms - fit gas masks in the living room of a family in Sunderland

Boys in jackets and breeches with Merveilleuse, 1800
Boys in jackets and breeches with Merveilleuse in Roman robe with bonnet and spencer jacket. Little Patriots, Year VIII, 1800. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Fashionable guests at a masquerade ball, 1800. Woman in medival headdress, man in hussar uniform, man in striped breeches and bicorn, woman in mask and hooded habit. An opera ball, Year VIII, 1800

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

Trades in Regency England. Sail cloth, stone quarries and timber for ship building. Sailors unfurling a canvas sail on a ship 13, men moving blocks of stone in a Portland quarry 14

The ruins of the South Gates of Dukes Place, built by Sir Thomas Audley (1488-1544) near Aldgate. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of

English gentleman consulting a somniloquist, 18th century
English gentleman consulting a somniloquist in his chambers, 18th century. The sleeping fortune teller lies in a bed in a room decorated with crocodile skin, Egyptian figures and incense burners

English gentleman and sleeping woman in a hotel room
English gentleman with candlesticks in both hands tries to remove a bell rope from the bosom of a sleeping woman. The inn at Marseilles

Regency cobbler mending shoes in a crowded room
Regency cobbler mending shoes in a room full of women and children. Buxom wife using bellows on the fire in the hearth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Man and woman lost in the countryside in a night storm with a servant holding a lantern. Miseries of the Country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Man chasing his hat down a muddy street in a high wind. Woman with her bonnet flying, maids stealing food off a platter on a mans head, roadsweepers, etc

Men and women skating on thin ice and falling into a freezing river. Cold Broth and Calamity. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Man using bellows in front of a fire in a smoky room with a scolding wife and bawling child. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Calligraphic title page with vignette of the Skeleton of Death tipping over a misers chair as two relatives grab bags of money from his strong box

Young English gentleman gambling at Newmarket racetrack
Young English gentleman placing a bet at a betting post at Newmarket racetrack. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes The Dance of Life

Plan and elevation of a Regency neoclassical villa. Floorplan shows dining room, drawing room, music room, library, hall, staircase, conservatory and passage

Plan and elevation of a Regency neoclassical ice house. Plans show bunker with double wall for drainage A and B, porches a and b, airtraps c, drain mouth with grating d

Plan and elevation of a Regency cottage. Floorplan shows best parlor, common parlor, kitchen and scullery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1817

Stick figures, Dot and Line, dancing and fainting
Dottator et Lineator Loquitor. Stick figures Dot and Line dancing the poussette, hornpipe, and then fainting and being led out drunk

Plan and elevation of the Savoy buildings, London, 1736
Plan and elevation of the Savoy, between the Strand and the Thames River, from a view taken in the year 1736 by George Vertue

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