Table Collection (#80)

An Artists Notes in California. Three Card Monte Sharps
Scene in an empty hut with a card table and professional card players, chips and cards on the table. A mangy dog sits under the table and an indian girl looks from the doorway

A Chinese Lottery in San Francisco, 1884
Engraving showing a group of Chinese men, in traditional clothing, and white Americans gambling, San Francisco, 1884. The men are seen gathered around a card table, with a game in progress

Interior of the engine house at Camden Town
Interior view of the new great circular engine-house at the Camden Town depot of the North Western Railway. The vast circular building accommodates engines

Young Emigrants singing Grace on their ship, 1884
Engraving showing emigrant boys from Dr. Stephensons Home singing Grace before a meal on board an Atlantic steamship, 1884

Catherine Gladstone
CATHERINE GLADSTONE nee GLYNNE Wife of WE Gladstone

Housemaid / Fresh Laundry
A smiley housemaid carrying freshly laundered and ironed tableware

Franklin / Martin / Welch
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN American statesman, scientist and philosopher

The Artists Room
Four people sit at a table in an artists studio - but where is the artist?

Jfw Herschel / Anon Eng
SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL Astronomer; a founder (1820) of Royal Astronomical Society

Dr Syntax / Counterpart / 2T
Dr Syntax and his counterpart

Smart Dinner Party / Thony
A smart dinner party where the men are wearing military uniform and there are elaborate candlesticks in the middle of the table

Scene at a County Cricket Match, 1881
Engraving of a scene beside the pavilion at a county cricket match, circa 1881. On the left of the image are a number of spectators and the two scorers, sitting at their table; on the right

Dr Slade: spirit writing trial
Sketches of the trial of Henry Slade, showing Slade in the centre. Slade first practised his spirit communication in America before travelling to England where he gave seances from his lodgings in

Cat on Dining Table
A small child is alarmed when Puss jumps onto the table to share its supper - but maman and elder sister don t seem to mind

Small boy and dog
A small boy and his terrier dog gaze longingly at a delicious pie, left tantalizingly on a dinner table

Crocuses growing in PRS Discoverys wardroom, 1902
Illustration showing the wardroom of the Polar Research Ship Discovery, Easter Sunday, 1902. Several of the ships officers can be seen climbing onto the dining table to look at their pots of crocuses

The Interior of the Amundsen Antarctic Expeditions Winter Q
Photograph showing the living quarters of the hut used by Roald Amundsens Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12. Sleeping bunks, with curtains, line the edges of the hut, with the dining table in the centre

Odysseus & Circe
Circe the sorceress, with her handmaiden at her side, urges Odysseus (Ulysses) to have a drink from her table. But since she turned his men into pigs. he is reluctant to do so

Gandhi Impersonator
A young man impersonates Mahatma Gandhi and pleases the crowd outside Buckingham Palace, London. The real Gandhi had recently visited for the Round Table Conference

Period Dining Room
A period style dining room with a polished wood dining table

Young Boy and Pekingese
A young boy (Barrie Godfrey) stands rather pensively by a low table, upon which a pet Pekingese sits

Greeley (Kruell)
HORACE GREELEY American journalist, noted for urging young men to go West : he also befriended the table- rapping Fox sisters. with his autograph Date: 1811 - 1872

Ration Gadgets for your Coupons - Sunday Joint
Part of a series of humorous illustrations he produced for the Sketch during World War II. The scene shows a family sitting at a dinner table for Sunday lunch only to be faced with a circular machine

The Making of the Illustrated London News: How the paper is
Illustration by Samuel Begg, showing an army artists at work in the offices of The Illustrated London News. At times of exceptional pressure, for instance, during a Coronation or a State Funeral

Brother & Sister C1880
Brother and sister pose for their photograph in a studio

Housemaid Dusting
A housemaid in a large Edwardian house dusting the dressing table and polishing the brass bed ends

Dressing for Dinner
Lady Anna Olliff-Cooper sits at her dressing table while Eva Morrison, the Ladys Maid, puts her hair up for her

Girl Tries on Hat C1890
A little girl tries on a new hat and admires her reflection in the dressing table mirror

Boy Eats Cake 1927
A little boy sits at a table, about to tuck into a big cake

Tourists in Ratskeller
A party of tourists are led to a table in a RATSKELLER (a bar/restaurant beneath the City Hall)

Old Age / Mask of Youth
An old man puts on the mask of youth at his dressing table

Social / Belgium / 17C
A Flemish household at table in a dining/bedroom

Ladies Leave after Meal
After dinner, the ladies leave the table and the room, allowing the men to enjoy port and cigars, and to discuss the matters of the day

Taking Seats for Dinner
Diners take their seats at the dinner table

Les Salons D aujourd hui
The ladies (above whom hover cherubs) are deserted by the men in favour of the card table, above which is a devilish winged beast perhaps suggesting gambling folly

The Canons Ward
Illustration to accompany a story James Payn, showing a late-Victorian family seated around the dinner table. An elaborate floral

Except on Business
Young girl stands by a Christmas dinner table staring at a roast turkey. A dog sits on a dinner chair beside her looking hungry

London Societys Latest Playground
Restaurant of the new Mayfair Hotel in Berkeley Square, London, London societys latest playground, inspected by their majesties

Saving their servants and enjoying themselves with easy cons
Restaurant scene to illustrate the fashion among society to dine at a grand restaurant or hotel on a Sunday evening, to give their servants a rest

A Merry Christmas
A Christmas scene from the early 17th century showing seven men round a table raising goblets in the air for a toast. Several empty bottles or flasks are scattered about suggesting that a lot of wine

Dinner table scene
Engraving to illustrate a short story by Robert Buchanan, The Master of the Mine showing a family in a typical middle-class Victorian home around a dining table

Aunt Sallys Christmas Boxes: John Crasss Discomfiture
A Victorian family around a dining table during the distribution of envelopes of money, or Christmas boxes to servants. The servant who has just received his is either embarrassed or unimpressed with

A Rival to the Gotterdammerung dinner: Dining in Berlin s
Two ladies and a gentleman sat around a dinner table at the Ice Palace in Berlin. The venue, complete with ice rink was built at a cost of 100, 000 and became a fashionable dining venue

Monte Carlo Winner
A huge stash of winnings surrounds a lucky gambler at Monte Carlo

Playing Cards at Bath
Four ladies of Bath play cards around a table by candlelight

Cobden & Bright Cdv
RICHARD COBDEN English politician and economist, with his friend and ally John Bright

Dusting a Coffee Table
A young housewife dusts her marble effect coffee table

The Billiard Table
Dr Syntax and the ladies playing billiards

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