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Barrister in Full SwingAn advocate in full swing in the courtroom. He gets so carried away that his spectacles fall off
Anthony TrollopeANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist in old age Date: 1815 - 1882
Tennyson / Ape / Vanity FairALFRED, LORD TENNYSON English poet Cartoon
NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER, French music teacherNADIA-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
Anthony Trollope / CenturyANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist
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
Blackpool EntertainmentThe front cover of a souvenir programme for the Blackpool Tower & Winter Gardens, including the Tower circus and ballroom
Ww1 Postcard BulldogTheres life in the old dog yet ! - a British bulldog, depicted with a boot, a pair of spectacles and a German helmet
A Picture WITH Words by Chloe PrestonA studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords
Victorian ShoemakerA Victorian shoemaker in his workshop
Anthony Trollope / PhotoANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist
Italo Calvino / MorganITALO CALVINO Italian writer
Ernst Werner Von SiemensERNST WERNER VON SIEMENS German engineer
Lombroso / Cesare / PostcardCESARE LOMBROSO Italian physician and criminologist
Sacha Guitry / JeidelsSACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, lighting a cigarette
Yeats / Graphic 1923WILLIAM 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 FolkestoneMahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone on 12 September 1931
Elderly woman making lace in an open doorwayAn elderly woman making lace in the open doorway of her home, with a large number of bobbins on display. Date: 20th century
Tommy Dorsey / PostcardTOMMY DORSEY Jazz musician
Sir Frederick BridgeSir John Frederick Bridge Musician
Old Maid card - Old Maid. circa 1940s
Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Producer. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease
Mr Pastry, aka Richard Hearne, with lionMr Pastry, aka the comic actor Richard Hearne (1908-1979), with a lion. Date: circa 1960s
Cheery Families - Miss Switch the Schoolmasters Daughter. 1890s
Reginald Malby, photographerReginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society. Seen here in a head and shoulders portrait with a pipe in his mouth
Utrillo and GuitryMAURICE UTRILLO French painter, best known for his Parisian street scenes, with the actor and dramatist SACHA GUITRY (1885-1957), in Montmartre, Paris, 1955
Josef Scheffel / PostcardJOSEF VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL German poet and novelist
Edward DonovanEDWARD DONOVAN Well-fed naturalist, reading a paper with the aid of spectacles. Date: 1768 - 1837
Four cats drinking tea on a Christmas cardFour cats drinking tea and chatting on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Arthur Rackham / St IvesARTHUR RACKHAM English illustrator: self-portrait in his own illustration to As I was going to St Ives Date: 1867 - 1939
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
Ostia Antica. Theater. Italy
Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal FamilyAdvertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841
Forty Winks by C. E. WilsonA 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
Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904), Russian writer of short stories and plays. He was also a physician
Georges Duhamel / ManuelGEORGES DUHAMEL French writer
Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Eric Gill, sculptor and printmaker, at workArthur Eric Rowton Gill (1882 - 1940), English sculptor, printmaker and typeface designer, at work, using a magnifying glass. Date: 1930
John CummingJOHN 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 1935Leaflet 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
City gent - rowing boat
Cheery Families - Master Switch the Schoolmasters Son. 1890s
Lenin / Kalinin / 1920VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN Sitting with M Kalinin
Ww1 / 1915 / German OptimismThe German people favours OPTIMISMUS rather than PESSIMISMUS [though isn t it ironic that the sign should be rose-tinted spectacles ?]
Rimsky-Korsakov / PostcardNIKOLAY ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian composer in later life
Messager / Andre / H ManuelANDRE-CHARLES-PROSPER MESSAGER French composer and conductor
C Wheatstone / World InvenSIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE English physicist and inventor
Hugh Walpole / Cig CardSIR HUGH SEYMOUR WALPOLE English novelist born in New Zealand
Dog Reading by PiddingA 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
Franz Schubert, Austrian composer and musician
King George V, wearing the eye-glasses he had recently adopted for reading, replying to the Duke of York's address, and declaring the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley open. Date: 1925
Folding spectacles from Speclettes. Date: 1931
Luca Giordano, Italian late-Baroque painter and etcherSelf-portrait of Luca Giordano in spectacles, 1634-1705, Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker/etcher. Court painter to King Charles II of Spain. History and portrait painter
Chinese mandarin in common dress, 18th century. He wears spectacles, a light gown, and carries a fan, long tobacco pipe and pouch. A straw hat lies on the ground. Mandarin en costume ordinaire
17th century Dutch spectacles seller offering his wares to a woman outside a cottage. The itinerant pedlar holds a tray of glasses. An old woman sits in front of a spinning wheel
English gentleman playing with a dog in a study, Regency eraEnglish gentleman listening to a lecture from his bewigged father in a study. Tom Takeall in riding coat, striped waistcoat, buff trousers and riding boots, plays with his dog. Taking Advice
The famous comedian Fleury (Abraham-Joseph Benard) 1750-1822 as the Marquis de Moncade in Ecole des Bourgeois by Abbe d Allainval at the Theatre Francais, Paris 1816
Mlle. More as Fanchette in Les deux jalouxFrench opera singer Mlle. More as Fanchette in the comic opera Les deux jaloux with music by Sophie Gail at the Theatre Feydeau
Old man reading newspaper in cafe, Le Monastier-sur-GazeilleOld man concentrates on reading a newspaper in cafe, Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille, France Date: 1988
Comic postcard, Large man running on the beach Date: 20th century
French mime Charles-Francois Mazurier as Polichinello, 1823French comic dancer and mime artist Charles-Francois Mazurier as Polichinello in Polichinelle Vampire by Theodore de Banville at the Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 1823
Cat reading a book on a Christmas card Date: circa 1900s
Comic postcard, Courting couple on sofa - Wonders of Nature Date: 20th century
Lilian Baylis, Manager, The Vic-Wells Ballet, supplement to The Dancing Times, December 1937 Date: 1937
H L Brook, pilot Date: 1935
Madrid, Inauguration of the Apolo Theater, November 23, 1873Spain, Madrid. Inauguration of the Apolo Theater on the night of November 23, 1873. Woodcut on paper. Tomas Carlos Capuz (1834-1899) and Jose Luis Pellicer (1842-1901)
Are You A Stockbroker?An illustration portraying a finely dressed lady looking down at a short man through her hand held spectacles, asking if he is a stockbroker. Date: circa 1901
Les Rendez-vous De Madame De Z. Part VIIPart VII of a series of sketches which portrays a lady looking through her handheld spectacles as she walks by a woodland, under the shade of her parasol. Date: circa 1901
Mabel Terry Lewis, in A Pair of Spectacles, Garrick TheatreActress Mabel Terry Lewis, (28 October 1872 ?? 28 November 1957), appearing in the production A Pair of Spectacles, by Sydney Grundy, at the Garrick Theatre, London
Mr Tryon the Tailor
Mr Snob the Shoemaker
Master Tryon the Tailor's Son
Advert for Kershaw's BinocularsAdvert for Kershaw's Sportsman Binoculars - worn like spectacles. Date: 1939
Overseas students demonstrating over fees, LondonStudents from Hong Kong, studying at Queen Mary College, demonstrating outside their government's London office, December 1980
Lady Trumpington and Nigel Wright discuss Sunday tradingThe Conservative peer Lady Trumpington (Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington, b.1922) and Nigel Wright, the Dickie Dirts clothing retailer, discuss the issue of Sunday trading, 4 February 1982
Tailors in a workshop with coat on displayA group of tailors in a workshop with a finished coat on display on a dummy. Date: circa 1960s
Tailors in a workshop. Date: circa 1960s
Tailor at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s
Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violin virtuosoIsaac Stern (1920-2001), Ukrainian-born violin virtuoso. Seen here with a young pupil. Date: circa 1980s
Michael Foot and Tony Blair, British Labour politiciansMichael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter
Jessica Mitford speaking at a microphoneJessica Mitford (Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, 1917-1996), nicknamed Decca, English author, journalist, communist and political campaigner, one of the Mitford sisters
Henry Kissinger, American politician and diplomatHenry Alfred Kissinger (b 1923), German-born American political scientist, diplomat, 56th US Secretary of State 1973-1977. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his role in US foreign policy
Denis Healey, Labour politician, with colleagueDenis Healey (Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, b 1917), British Labour politician, served as Secretary of State for Defence 1964-1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-1979