Shapes Collection (page 6)

Design for Metalwork. Pencil on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1903 - 1904

Design for Wallpaper in pink, orange and blue. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1926

Design for Dado Paper (Wallpaper) with organic and geometrical shapes. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1889

Design for wallpaper in green. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1903

Design for woven textile with flower shapes. Watercolour and Charcoal on tracing paper. Silver Studio. circa 1905

Design for printed textile with organic shapes. Charcoal and crayon on copy paper with one portion worked in gouache and ruled pencil lines. Silver Studio. 1906

The various shapes of the human form that we provide for. Print shows nineteen different male body shapes illustrating the range of clothing the advertiser, Hammerslough, Saks & Co. can accommodate

Decorative end papers, Art Gout Beaute, 1929
Decorative end papers in pink, purple and silver, Art Gout Beaute, 1929. 1929

American army recruit taking aptitude test, WW1
An American army recruit (left) taking an aptitude test during the First World War, fitting wooden shapes into holes. The man on the right is timing him with a stopwatch. Date: 1917-1918

Russian Berlin Work Pattern with a spider and his web. Date: 1937

Canvas and aluminium screen, Festival of Britain, London
View of a brightly coloured canvas and tubular aluminium screen which faced the Country Pavilion at the Festival of Britain exhibition on the South Bank, London. early 1951

Abstract design with bird shapes
An abstract design with two bird shapes. An archway in the background leads to a wood

Abstract design with various shapes
An abstract design with various shapes, including an empty set of shelves and a red brick wall floating in the air

Abstract design with starfish shapes
An abstract design with starfish shapes and bubbles

Window detail, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A window detail on the main workshop building at Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales. Wooden patterns for the ironwork, including these frames

Young child on an exotic rug, Middle East
A young child kneeling on an exotic rug, somewhere in the Middle East

Abstract view of an underground cavern
An abstract view of an underground cavern in a surreal style. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Abstract picture of tubes & swirls
Abstract painting of tubes, horns & swirls by Raymond Sheppard

Patterned shapes - abstract painting by Raymond Sheppard

Cairo, Egypt - Pot Seller
A pot seller in Cairo, Egypt with his wide selection of pottery in varied shapes and sizes. He sits in the open entrance to his shop and talks to a passing fresh water carrier / seller

Example of Ottoman-era script
Good example of script using Arabic letter shapes, possibly Ottoman/Egyptian

Close to Station (Railway) Beijing, China
An interesting card, entitled: Close to Railway Station Beijing, China

A Display of Vases
Vases by Clarey of Asnieres, in a variety of shapes and sizes, weird and wonderful, the sort of thing you find in dusty antique shops or the marche aux puces

England / Poole
The white beauty of the ever- changing cloud shapes adds to the charm of the scene across Poole Harbour, one of Dorsets gems of beauty and the distant Isle of Purbeck

Imaginary Ufo (Buhler)
This painting captures the mysteriously ambiguous quality of the UFOs - part nuts-and- bolts spacecraft, part dreamlike shapes which echo subconscious archetypes

Comets of 1st Century
Various shapes of comet reported by Plinius the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) including disk-shaped, twin- tailed, bearded, sword-like and other variants

Hypnagogic Images
Hypnagogic images - abstract shapes which present themselves on the threshold of sleep

Marie / Sachsen-Weimar-Eis
PRINCESS MARIE von SACHSEN-WEIMAR-EISENACH Wife of Prince Carl of Prussia in 1825

Vowel Simulator / 1900
Marages machine to simulate the sounds and mouth shapes created by saying the five vowels

The Old Shipyard - a carpenter shapes the timbers of a sailing vessel

Liebig Games - 6
A boy delights his friends with a demonstration of what happens when two shapes are projected and superimposed on a screen, a lesson in physics

Anteater (Bewick)
Ant-eaters come in many shapes and sizes. This one is the GREAT ANT-EATER, myrmecophaga jubata, more than a metre long, not counting its tail which is most of 1m more

MENs HATS
Top hats come in Twenty Different Shapes at the Western Hat Company of Oxford Street, London, known for their unequalled Half-Guinea Hats

De Vesmematerialisation
Cesar de Vesme testifies to witnessing materialisations in which misty shapes detach from the medium and move around the seance room

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