Four cats drinking tea on a Christmas cardFour cats drinking tea and chatting on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Barrister in Full SwingAn advocate in full swing in the courtroom. He gets so carried away that his spectacles fall off
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
Tennyson / Ape / Vanity FairALFRED, LORD TENNYSON English poet Cartoon
Anthony Trollope / CenturyANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist
Blackpool EntertainmentThe front cover of a souvenir programme for the Blackpool Tower & Winter Gardens, including the Tower circus and ballroom
Anthony TrollopeANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist in old age Date: 1815 - 1882
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
Ernst Werner Von SiemensERNST WERNER VON SIEMENS German engineer
Lombroso / Cesare / PostcardCESARE LOMBROSO Italian physician and criminologist
Yeats / Graphic 1923WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and senator, shown here attending the first meeting of the new Dail Eireann in Dublin
Anthony Trollope / PhotoANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist
Mahatma Gandhi sailing from Boulogne to FolkestoneMahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone on 12 September 1931
Sir Frederick BridgeSir John Frederick Bridge Musician
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
Italo Calvino / MorganITALO CALVINO Italian writer
Tommy Dorsey / PostcardTOMMY DORSEY Jazz musician
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
Mr Pastry, aka Richard Hearne, with lionMr Pastry, aka the comic actor Richard Hearne (1908-1979), with a lion. Date: circa 1960s
Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Producer. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease
Old Maid card - Old Maid. circa 1940s
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
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
Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal FamilyAdvertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841
Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904), Russian writer of short stories and plays. He was also a physician
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
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
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
City gent - rowing boat
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
Arthur Rackham / St IvesARTHUR 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 / 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
Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Sacha Guitry / JeidelsSACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, lighting a cigarette
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
