Spectacles Collection

Anthony Trollope
ANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist in old age Date: 1815 - 1882

Barrister in Full Swing
An advocate in full swing in the courtroom. He gets so carried away that his spectacles fall off

NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER, French music teacher
NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER (1887-1979), French music teacher and conductor. Her students included Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Lennox Berkeley, Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein. Date: early 1960s

1950s Cinema - Childrens Saturday Matinee. Boys and girls looking up at the screen and laughing. Two of the boys are wearing ABC badges -- the name of the cinema. Date: 1954

Tennyson / Ape / Vanity Fair
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON English poet Cartoon

Anthony Trollope / Century
ANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist

Blackpool Entertainment
The front cover of a souvenir programme for the Blackpool Tower & Winter Gardens, including the Tower circus and ballroom

Sacha Guitry / Jeidels
SACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, lighting a cigarette

A Picture WITH Words by Chloe Preston
A studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords

Victorian Shoemaker
A Victorian shoemaker in his workshop

Italo Calvino / Morgan
ITALO CALVINO Italian writer

Ernst Werner Von Siemens
ERNST WERNER VON SIEMENS German engineer

Lombroso / Cesare / Postcard
CESARE LOMBROSO Italian physician and criminologist

Yeats / Graphic 1923
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and senator, shown here attending the first meeting of the new Dail Eireann in Dublin

Mahatma Gandhi sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone on 12 September 1931

Sir Frederick Bridge
Sir John Frederick Bridge Musician

Anthony Trollope / Photo
ANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist

Elderly woman making lace in an open doorway
An elderly woman making lace in the open doorway of her home, with a large number of bobbins on display. Date: 20th century

Tommy Dorsey / Postcard
TOMMY DORSEY Jazz musician

Old Maid card - Old Maid. circa 1940s

Mr Pastry, aka Richard Hearne, with lion
Mr Pastry, aka the comic actor Richard Hearne (1908-1979), with a lion. Date: circa 1960s

The poet and novelist Katharine Tynan (1861 - 1931), pictured at home with her husband, the writer and barrister, Henry Hinkson, her three children and dog

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Producer. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Four cats drinking tea on a Christmas card
Four cats drinking tea and chatting on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Reginald Malby, photographer
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society. Seen here in a head and shoulders portrait with a pipe in his mouth

Josef Scheffel / Postcard
JOSEF VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL German poet and novelist

Edward Donovan
EDWARD DONOVAN Well-fed naturalist, reading a paper with the aid of spectacles. Date: 1768 - 1837

Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal Family
Advertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841

Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904), Russian writer of short stories and plays. He was also a physician

Forty Winks by C. E. Wilson
A dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt

Utrillo and Guitry
MAURICE UTRILLO French painter, best known for his Parisian street scenes, with the actor and dramatist SACHA GUITRY (1885-1957), in Montmartre, Paris, 1955

Rudyard Kipling
English writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Eric Gill, sculptor and printmaker, at work
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (1882 - 1940), English sculptor, printmaker and typeface designer, at work, using a magnifying glass. Date: 1930

City gent - rowing boat

John Cumming
JOHN CUMMING Scottish divine 1807 - 1881

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Stories from Puppyland. Mr Terrier, proud father of ten puppies, smokes his pipe and reads his newspaper. Date: 1904

Leaflet, London Sketch Club Smoker, March 1935
Leaflet advertising a London Sketch Club Smoker (smoking party), taking place on Friday 29 March 1935 at a venue in Marylebone Road, London NW1, with pictures from 6.30

Arthur Rackham / St Ives
ARTHUR RACKHAM English illustrator: self-portrait in his own illustration to As I was going to St Ives Date: 1867 - 1939

Ostia Antica. Theater. Italy

Cheery Families - Miss Switch the Schoolmasters Daughter. 1890s

Cheery Families - Master Switch the Schoolmasters Son. 1890s

Lenin / Kalinin / 1920
VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN Sitting with M Kalinin

Ww1 / 1915 / German Optimism
The German people favours OPTIMISMUS rather than PESSIMISMUS [though isn t it ironic that the sign should be rose-tinted spectacles ?]

Rimsky-Korsakov / Postcard
NIKOLAY ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian composer in later life

Messager / Andre / H Manuel
ANDRE-CHARLES-PROSPER MESSAGER French composer and conductor

C Wheatstone / World Inven
SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE English physicist and inventor

Hugh Walpole / Cig Card
SIR HUGH SEYMOUR WALPOLE English novelist born in New Zealand

Dog Reading by Pidding
A learned grandfather amuses his grandchildren by teaching the dog to read. The dog, wearing spectacles & smoking a pipe, sits on a stool to read a newspaper

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