Talent Collection

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, handler at Peterborough Show
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Tom Newman, the Duke of Beauforts huntsman, taking part as a handler at the Peterborough Foxhound Show

Shame Flute - German punishment for being a poor musician
A Shame Flute ( Schand Flote ) - German punishment for being a poor musician - you had to face the public wearing (around the neck) a heavy iron flute

With Your Talent You Should Be A Millionaire
A sketch which shows a large gentleman speaking with a man whose head is slightly bowed, a lady stands behind looking towards a desk. Date: circa 1901

Pierrot And The Banker Part 1
A series of illustrations portraying Pierrot the sad pantomime clown and a banker, in each scene, Pierrot tries to impress the banker carrying the bags of wealth via means of playing music

Advert, Ipswich Hippodrome, St Nicholas Street, offering the cream of variety talent Date: 1912

Sue Carol - American actress
Sue Carol (1906-1982) - American actress and later a talent agent. The last of her four marriages was to one of her clients, Alan Ladd, from 1942 until his death in 1964. Date: circa 1920s

Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold

Two ladies talking in a parlor watching a woman paint in oils. She says, How many more virtues and talents... She thinks, To remain a woman

Lady playing the piano in a parlour to guests. Another lady says, Shes very talented. She thinks, Now we have to swallow a concerto

Charles Mathews playing six parts in Stories
Charles Mathews, comic actor, playing six parts in Stories, showing his distinctive appearance, lop-sided mouth and remarkable gift for mimicry. 1822

Talented Daughter
Unappreciated talent : Now then Julier do a done with that pehanner and give the mangle a turn ! Date: 1837 - 1838

Ethel Warwick painting
Ethel Warwick (1882-1951), Stage and film actress; wife of Edmund Waller, pictured at an easel painting, wearing a very artistic looking oriental cloak

Taking a bow
A young actor takes a bow, revelling in the enthusiasm of his loving audience as they applaud his perfomance. Date: 1886

Cartoon, Hamilton Aide, writer, artist and composer
Cartoon, Charles Hamilton Aide (1826-1906), French-born writer, artist and composer -- described here as All-Round Talent. 1884

Britannia Instructing Her Sons in the Arts & Sciences

Cartoon, English actors will soon be crowded out. 1880

Alfred Austin (Strand)
ALFRED AUSTIN, poet whose lack of talent was no hindrance to his appointment as Poet Laureate in 1896 : at different periods of his life. Date: 1835 - 1913

Female Types / Predatory
Three predatory women eye the local talent from a balcony: " There is no one down here worth looking at... with one or two exceptions." Date: 1876

Pueblo Indians with pottery, New Mexico, USA
Two prizewinning pottery makers, Maria and Julian, San Ildefonso Indian Pueblo, New Mexico, USA. Date: 1940s

A Sing-Song within the Firing Line
Sketches drawn by a sergeant with the B.E.F. of an evenings entertainment at the Front, showing various talents on display from an opera singer giving a recital

Teresa Milanollo
Domenica Maria TERESA MILANOLLA (on left) and her older sister Maria, Italian violin-playing sisters Date: 1827 - 1904

Stone Talent weight of 3000 shekels
Found near the temple of Jerusalem, this stone weight of the peiod of King David was the equivalent of the weight of a silver talent of 3000 shekels

H. L. Oakley cutting a portrait in his studio
Silhouette artist, Harry Lawrence Oakley, known as H. L. Oakley pictured cutting the portrait of a young woman in a cloche hat and fur stole in a studio

Two aspiring musical comedy artistes, London
Minter and Osborn of Manchester, contestants in the 13th Encore Competition staged in Collins Music Hall, Islington, London

Street music: Talent appreciated, 1869
A cook and parlourmaid admire an organ grinder and his " expressive" playing from a downstairs window. Date: 1869

Music in the home, 1887
An accomplished German man eclipses the other talent at an evening party, to the disgust of the watching Englishmen. " Young Muller(from Hamburg)

Saint-Saens at Age 10
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS Saint-Saens at age 10, already showing talent at the keyboard. Date: 1835-1921

Max Darewski, musical prodigy
Maximillian Arnold (Max) Darewski (1894-1929), a musical prodigy who composed, conducted and played the piano. Seen here as a teenager, in coat and hat, carrying a music case

Isaac the Gurner
This ugly man, famed for his grinning or gurning set himself up as a public grinner. This talent has a long competitive tradition and is still practiced to this day

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