Step Collection

Mallory and Irvine at the Second Step, Everest, 1924
Illustration showing an artists impression of George Leigh Mallory (top) and Andrew Irvine climbing up the Second Step on Everest, 1924

Oliver Twist meeting the Artful dodger in the streets Date: First published: 1836-37

Lady Outside Gucci Shop
A smartly-dressed lady in turban, pearls and gloves, leaves the Gucci shop in Bond Street to step into her waiting Rolls Royce parked outside

Gypsy caravan and trap in a wood clearing. Pen & ink with watercolour wash sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Recruitment poster for the British Army
Poster for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, encouraging everyone to Step Into Your Place. A long line of people, soldiers and civilians, combine in their effort to win the war

George Leigh Mallory (1886-1924)
Photographic portrait of George Leigh Mallory, the British climber who took part in three expeditions to Everest in the 1920 s, pictured in 1924

Men Evening Dress 1893
Three variations of evening dress for 1893-4: dress tail coats with roll collar or step collar & a dress jacket. One man wears a black waistcoat & pumps the others wear white

Steps up to Whitby Church
The 199 steps leading up to Whitby Church, Yorkshire

Sheet Music Suffragettes Humorous One or Two Step

Clog Dance / Toaduff
CLOG DANCING / ENGLISH STEP DANCE An audience watch a demonstration by Jackie Toaduff, at the York Summer Festival

Racial / French Accordeon
A typical French street or cafe musician playing the one-step for accordion

Ascent Mont Blanc - 4
THE ASCENT OF MONT BLANC Reaching the summit: during this final stage, each step takes ten minutes Date: 1855

Book cover, Wayside and Woodland Blossoms, A Pocket Guide to British Wild Flowers, by Edward Step FLS, with colour plates by Mabel E Step. Date: late 19th century

Instruction sheet, How to Dance the Jitterbug, by Adele England of the Locarno School of Dancing, Streatham, SW London. 1939

Soho, London - 8 Newburgh Street W1 - Deja Vu, a painted psychedelic shop front viewed from Lowndes Court. 1973

Fabulous Arab Doorway - Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
An absolutely fabulous Arab Doorway in the port town of Sidi Bou Said Tunisia, with a pair of knockers for the main decorated wooden doors (for ease of knocking when on a camel or on horseback)

Gipsy girl plaiting horses tail at an encampment in Surrey
A gipsy girl plaiting the tail of the family horse as she sits on the step of their caravan at an encampment in Surrey. (2 of 2)

First Lesson in the Goose Step
A small scrawny goose leading Germen troops, in a goose-stepping lesson

Rose of Sharon, Hypericum calycinum. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Hawker Hector with Napier Dagger III engine
A detail of a Hawker Hector focussing on the Napier Dagger III H-24 air-cooled piston Engine. Developing 805hp the Dagger was the next step for D

The Chapter House Doorway, Wells Cathedral, Somerset. Date: circa 1920s

Mind The Step revue by Charles Baldwin and Harry Richardson
Promotional postcard for Mind The Step revue by Charles Baldwin and Harry Richardson. First produced at the Islington Empire, 10th May 1915

Gipsy girl plaiting horses tail, Surrey
A gypsy girl plaiting the tail of the family horse as she sits on the step of their caravan at an encampment in Surrey. (1 of 2)

Senecio Jacobaea or Ragwort
Senecio Jacobaea, Ragwort, or St Jamess Wort, or Stagger-Wort, or Stammer-Wort. Date: circa 1909

Music cover, Oh Man! You d Hang Around, words and music by Nat D Ayer, from the Empire Revue, Watch Your Step. 1910

Roman peasant woman carrying water, Italy Date: 1918

Throwing snowballs
A group of cheeky monks, step outside of their monastery to throw snowballs and unsuspecting passers-by

WatchYour Step by David Wright
Watch Your Step by David Wright. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Giffards Dirigible
Henry Giffards steam-powered dirigible - a major step towards the achievement of powered aerial navigation

Two-Step Dance (Rieth)

Africa - Women Pounding grain
Africa - Women pounding grain, millet corn or cassava roots as the first step in the preparation of a meal. Date: circa 1970s

Summit of Mount Sinai. Ruins of a temple. Engraving by Emile Rouargue

17th century Dutch peasants outside a large farmhouse

Design for a Gothic Bed Room, 1813. Bed with groined arches, tent-like canopy over bedstead with steps. Walls with compartments divided by mullions, hangings of blue silk, etc

Cabinet bookcase, Regency era. Rosewood cabinet, doors decorated with classical figures in metal gilt, shelves and drawers inside. The top with mirrored steps to display vases

Tower house Susunaga. 14th century, renoved in 16th century
Tower house Susunaga. 14th century and renoved in 16th century. Architectural detail of the main facade. Baracaldo (Barakaldo), Basque Country, Spain

Portugal. Sintra. Partial view of the Pena Palace complex
Portugal, Sintra. Partial view of the Pena Palace complex, conceived as a summer residence for the royal family. Built in 19th century by Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855)

Spain, Extremadura, Valencia de Alcantara
Spain, Extremadura, Caceres province, Valencia de Alcantara. Church of Nuestra Senora de Rocamador (Our Lady of Rocamador)

Jerusalem cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum var. diflorum
Jerusalem cherry or Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum var. diflorum (Star capsicum, Solanum capsicastrum)

Never-stop railway at British Empire Exhibition 1924
Diagram showing step-on, step-off method, where people walked slowly onto the moving carriage that went around the British Empire Exhibition, in Wembley, designed by William Yorath Lewis

The Cisterns of Borj Jedid Carthage near Tunis, Tunisia
Vintage 19th century photograph: The Cisterns of Borj Jedid - a group of cisterns, which are among the most visible features of the archaeological site of Carthage near Tunis, Tunisia

Homeless man in doorway
A homeless man puts on his shoes in the doorway of an East End warehouse, London. Date: circa 1950s

Herbsts bloodleaf varieties, Iresine herbstii a) var. acuminata, b) var. aureo-reticulata

Plumed cockscomb or silver cocks comb, Celosia argentea (Cock s-comb, Celosia cristata)

Red angels trumpet, Brugmansia sanguinea. Extinct. (Datura sanguinea)

Prickly pear or Indian fig opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica (Opuntia vulgaris)

False Christmas cactus, Schlumbergera truncata (Epiphyllum truncatum)

Rose General Jacqueminot, hybrid perpetual. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Rose Baroness Rothschild, hybrid perpetual. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Chinese wisteria, Wisteria sinensis (Wistaria sinensis)

Shoe flower or China rose, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Pansy, Viola tricolor var. maxima. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Parma violet, Viola odorata var. parmensis. Viola alba hybrid

Honesty, Lunaria annua (Lunaria biennis). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica
Trumpet lily, arum lily or Calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica (Richardia africana)

Common water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Tree peony, Paeonia moutan. Paeonia ?? suffruticosa. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

White peony, Paeonia lactiflora (Paeonia albiflora). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Cartoon, The Goose Step, Berlin, 1 January 1914, pre-WW1 cartoon by Harry Furniss. 1914

Poster, Dig for Victory, WW2
Poster, Dig for Victory, step on it! 1940s

Household Objects Date: 1940

Irish Guards, Windsor
Irish Guards marching on parade at Windsor Castle, Berkshire Date: 1989

Arab Street with small shops - Algiers, Algeria
Arab Street with small shops in the Kasbah of Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1904

Advert, Co-Operative Tea is filling the Nation's Teapot

The Great Aztec Temple at Tenochtitlan. Dedicated to the god of war. Built in a large square, with an ashlar wall, carved on the outside with different loops of chained snakes. Engraving

Music cover, You'd Be Surprised, Irving Berlin
Music cover, You'd Be Surprised, one step, by Herman Darewski, based on Irving Berlin's famous song You'd be Surprised. Date: 1919

Cover design, Do it yourself, May 1966 - do it herself, a practical guide for the woman about the house Date: 1966

Cover design, Do it yourself, June 1967 - detached brick garage Date: 1967

Lady and Cupid
This sketch depicts a scene in which a smiling young lady is bowing slightly to look down at Cupid who has arrived at her door step, apparently not for the first time

The New Pet, terrier puppy with whip, by Ruth Cobb Date: 1937

Music cover, Whistling Rufus, by Kerry Mills
Music cover, Whistling Rufus, a characteristic march which can be used effectively as a two step, polka or cake walk, ragtime music by Kerry Mills Date: 1899

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Ho Chi Minh's Campaign
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Ho Chi Minh takes every step and every advance alongside his troops, even if he is not physically by their side'. Date: circa mid-1970s

RMS Lusitania - three sheet music covers. Lusitania, Two Step and March by Leslie H Stowe; Lusitania Two Step, and Lusitania March and Two Step by John M Gray. Date: 20th century

Italian Tango Dancers. Date: circa 1910s

Space Memorabilia - Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin photo
Space Memorabilia - Apollo 11, high gloss photo of Buzz Aldrin standing before the American Flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission, hand signed by Buzz himself

Painting goalposts for FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium
Painting goalposts for FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium Date: 1946

Piano Slide, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Thelma
A portrait oil painting of a little girl, wearing a large hat, the girl is thought to be the artist's (James Muir Auld) step daughter, Thelma. Date: circa 1918

Botot water laboratory, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Botot water laboratory, sold at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Music cover, Barcelona Indigo - Yes- Indigo
Music cover, Barcelona, Indigo - Yes- Indigo, a Nutty 6/8 One-Step, words by Raymond Wallace, music by Tolchard Evans. Date: 1926

The Clown - Dancer of the Moulin Rouge, Paris Date: circa 1910s

Alick Warrand, Mrs. G. Warrand, R. R. Caton and unknown man
Scottish friends left to right Alick Warrand, Mrs. G. Warrand, R.R. Caton and unknown man. Date: 1861

Ringing the Curfew Bell, Lincolns Inn Chapel, London Date: 1921

Comic postcard, Little girl scrubbing the front step Date: 20th century

All products are expertly crafted, using premium materials, tailored to your specifications and promptly shipped