Spurrier Collection

Fighting in the Marrowbone area of Belfast
Fighting in the so-called Marrowbone district of Belfast - an encounter between Sinn Feiners on the left, in Glenpark Street, and loyalist Orangemen in Louisa Street

Great-grandmama chooses the Christmas Sirloin,s Spurrier
Great-grandmama chooses the Christmas Sirloin, illustration by Steven Spurrier, artist (1878-1961). Showing woman and girl ordering at Victorian butcher's counter

English huntsman in hunting pinks sitting on a horse with a pack of fox hounds, 19th century. Simon Heavy-side and his hounds

Scenes in a Chocolate Factory by Steven Spurrier
Chocolate in the making at J. S. Fry and Sons, Bristol. Top picture shows melangeurs grinding cocoa beans and sugar. In the middle, women workers mould chocolate cakes and bars

ILN over - Arguing General Dyers case in the House of Lords
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring an illustration by Steven Spurrier of the House of Lords debate on the punishment of General Dyer for his action at Jalianwallah Bagh

Don t be shocked Aunt Cathie but I occasionally smoke
Illustration to a short story by E. F. Benson, The Puce Silk illustrating the a young woman smoking a cigarette in front of her aunt. Date: 1908

FALL / DACHSHUND / 1934
CHAMPION ERNEMANN Owned by Miss D. Spurrier. Date: 1934

Blood and Iron play in The Strand, October 1917. Blood and Iron, a play in one act, by Perley Poore Sheehan and Robert H Davis, illustrations by Steven Spurrier

Riviera entertainment - street performer outside Nice casino
A street performer entertains a fashionable crowd before the casino in Nice on the French Riviera in the spring of 1926. Date: 1926

The vogue of squash rackets: a game for both sexes
A page from the Illustrated London News in 1922, describing the new vogue for squash. Miss Joyce Cave(lady squash champion of 1921) and Miss S

Spurrier in medieval times 15th Century

Thomas Hardys funeral by Steven Spurrier
The funeral of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) in Westminster Abbey drawn by ILNs special artist, Steven Spurrier. Hardys ashes were interred in poets corner in the Abbey next to Charles Dickens

The public in a divorce court
Illustration by Steven Spurrier showing young women in the public gallery of a divorce court. The image accompanied an article in the ILN suggesting that divorce courts should be private

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