Silhouettes Collection (page 5)

LACE SELLER
BOOTLACE SELLER - James Pearson, the blind laceman of London Date: circa 1830

Children Playing Game
Three children play a game Date: early 20th century

Children skipping
Silhouette of children playing with a skipping rope. Date: Nineteenth century

Two gondoliers wait for tourist clients at St Marks, Venice. One gondolier is silhouetted in the background, the other sits and reads a newspaper Date: 2013

WW2 - Patriotic Propaganda - Play on the initials A. R. P
WW2 - Patriotic Propaganda - A play on the initials A. R. P. as " All - Right - Presently" with a jolly poem painting a rather rosy picture of londoners jauntily doing the Lambeth Walk into

Changing silhouette of womens fashion between 1812 - 1912
Hundred years of womens fashion, showing the silhouettes of change starting in 1812 Regency era with narrow gown, to Victorian era wider and wider bustle dresses

Japanese Pagoda silhouette Sensoji Asakusa Temple, Tokyo
Japanese Pagoda silhouette at sunset at the Sensoji Asakusa Kannon Temple, Tokyo, Japan

Page design, signature and sentiment, School Silhouettes
Page design for signature and sentiment in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting a tall plant with long branches. Date: circa 1930s

Carry On - Women in wartime silhouette, WW1
Types of Britains women armies - Land lasses, Town toilers and Sea Sirens. Three types of women during the First World War depicted rather romantically in silhouette

St Pauls Cathedral in silhouette
One of the most recognisable of London landmarks, St. Pauls Cathedral, pictured in silhouette. Date: 1926

Children in Kensington Gardens in silhouette
Charming scene showing two children in Kensington Gardens, London during the 1920s. Date: 1926

Silhouette portrait of a man in evening dress. Date: 20th century

Silhouette of RAF Observer, WW2
Silhouette of an RAF Observer. Date: circa 1940s

Silhouette of field mice and corn Date: c. 1930

Gardening silhouette
A father and his two children tend to the garden, pruning and watering a small tree. c. 1910

Silhouette of a cocker spaniel

WW1 silhouettes, The Tide of Victory

H. L. Oakley and others on the beach, Scarborough
The renowned silhouette artist H. L. Oakley (front row, second from left), with a group of men and women, all in their swimming gear on the beach at Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Silhouette of jockey and racehorse
Silhouette of jockey galloping along on a racehorse

Silhouette of a girl with a sheep and a goat
Silhouette of a little girl in a wide-brimmed hat, holding a sheep and a goat on leads

Robert Baden Powell, silhouette by H. L. Oakley
Silhouette portrait of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), the English soldier and founder of the Boy Scout Movement, by H. L. Oakley. circa 1920

Silhouette Artist Georg Schmidt
A fine silhouette of Silhouette Artist Georg Schmidt cutting a silhouette of a horse. circa 1830

Etienne de Silhouette - Profile portrait
Etienne de Silhouette (1709-1767) - French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV of France. His miserly tenure gave birth to the term a la Silhouette applying to the perception of things as

Etienne de Silhouette - Full-length silhouette portrait
Etienne de Silhouette (1709-1767) - French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV of France. His miserly tenure gave birth to the term a la Silhouette applying to the perception of things as

Christian Dior designs
Three sketches outlining the fashionable silhouettes created by French couturier Christian Dior, including the famous, extravagent New Look of 1947 with the sumptuous skirt

Boys! Come along, you re wanted
Boys! Come along. You re wanted. World War One recruitment poster of a soldier silhouetted against a map of the south of England

After the War - Silhouette by H L Oakley Date: 1917

The Faun by Edward Knoblauch. First produced at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London on 10th June 1913. A piece of whimsy in which a faun enters a London drawing room to prevent a man from taking his

Dr Syn by Russell Thorndike and Ivan Firth
Dr Syn by Russell Thorndike (6 February 1885 7 November 1972) and Ivan Firth, adapted from Thorndikes novel. First produced at the Wyndhams Theatre on 11th October 1925

The Seven Ages of Man - silhouette by Chris Heaps
The seven ages of man depicted in silhouette, finishing with old age represented by Father Christmas. Date: 1914

Soldier silhouette by Robert Baden Powell, WW1
Soldier silhouette by Robert Baden Powell, First World War, from Atkins at War by Herbert Jenkins. 1914-1918

Sunset on the sea, Agonda Beach, Goa, India
Sunset on the sea behind palm trees, Agonda Beach, Goa, India. Date: circa 1980s

Petticoats, soldiers in kilts, WW1 silhouette postcard
First World War postcard. Petticoats, part of the Camp Silhouette series showing soldiers from a Highland regiment, with their kilts looking very similar to the skirts of their female companions

Mice and Men by Winifred C. Honey, 1920s woman with cat
Illustration showing an elegant woman with cropped hair posing with a grey cat. The background shows silhouettes of men running from scurrying mice. Date: 1929

Auguste Edouart cutting silhouette of Liston the actor
Portrait of the artist in the act of cutting the silhouette of John Liston, the actor, an example of the supreme mastery the silhouette artist Edouart had achieved by 1828 when this picture was cut

WWI Poster, Halt! Who goes there?
Halt! Who goes there? If you are a friend, join the British ranks and help the brave lads at the front. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster. Date: 1915

Public warning poster identifying enemy & friendly aircraft
An official British war poster designed to teach the public to distinguish between enemy and friendly aircraft, with German airships and aeroplanes on the left and British on the right. Date: 1915

The Silhouette Art of H. L. Oakley
Inside page of a promotional leaflet produced by the silhouette artist, Captain H. L. Oakley, who, as well as genre and portrait cuttings, carried out a lot of advertising work

Eley Kynoch gun cartridges by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement for Eley-Kynoch gun cartridges featuring silhouettes by the artist H. L. Oakley. Date: 1936

LNER to Scotland advert designed by H. L. Oakley
Advertisement (or miniature of a poster) advertising the L.N.E.R East Coast train route from London to scotland via the famous Flying Scotsman. Date: 1923

Leagues of Nation with silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
A page from The Bystander (its regular Bystander in Occupation column) with silhouettes by Captain H. L. Oakley showing an English soldier marrying a German woman

Lady eating in silhouette by Nellie E. George
A lady seated at an elegant dining table raises a fork to her mouth. Published in The Bystander during World War One, the accompanying rhyming caption alludes to food rationing - Mary had a little

Heath Robinson - Wartime Cartoons - WWII. Showing people climbing up onto barrage balloons. Date: 1940

Silhouette portrait of Baron Scotford, artist
Silhouette portrait of Baron Scotford, American silhouette artist. Date: circa 1920s

Silhouette portrait of a woman in a large hat. Date: circa 1920s

Silhouette portrait of a man, W. Sorcombe John. Date: 20th century

Silhouette of boy with apple
Full length silhouette of a boy holding an apple. Date: 20th century

Silhouette of man with rolled umbrella
Full length silhouette of a man with a rolled umbrella under his arm. Date: 1914

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