Thackeray Collection

Playing Table Tennis - Edwardian - Etiquette
I am not sure whether it is my turn. (to write the postcard or to serve!!) A smart Gentleman makes a courteous enquiry to his glamorous young female table tennis companion. Date: circa 1904

A Kings Clothes
How to make a king look like a king - dress him in a kings clothes ! (Thackeray chooses Louis XIV, but any king would do as well...)

The Last of the Dandies
Popular Plays: " The Last of the Dandies" A kindly Policeman leads two young toffs homeward after having far too much debauchery for one evening... Date: circa 1900

Rich Woman fishes for suitors
Leap Year - A Sure Bait A rich woman sits on the riverbank, loading up her hook with her riches ( LSD - pounds shillings and pence) - a sure bait for the mass of suitors she has already caught

Motor Car for Sale - Owing to Liquidation - Drink Driving
Motor Car for Sale - Owing to Liquidation - A Drink Driving Offender arrested by the village Policeman after a hearty session at The Cross Keys

Slow Coach and infuriated passenger
A lovely postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Urgent - featuring a carriage being pulled by a very tired old nag and being driven by an old soak of a driver

Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a group of men dining at a table, with a boy standing on the left. Date: first published 1850s

Thackeray - Palace Gardens
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) English novelist's home in Kensington Palace Gardens, where he lived from 1862 until his death

GHOST OF DEAD WIFE
An old man is visited by the ghost of his dead wife (illustration to Thackeray's The cane-bottom'd chair) Date: 1894

Cover design, W M Thackeray, The Newcomes
Part-work cover design, William Makepeace Thackerays serialised novel, The Newcomes, Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, designed by Richard Doyle. 1858

Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a supposed sketch by Clive Newcome, following a visit to his step-grandmother

Walpole House, Chiswick Mall, originally the home of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II, and the inspiration for Miss Pinkertons Academy in Thackerays Vanity Fair

A KINGS CLOTHES
How to make a king look like a king - dress him in a kings clothes ! (Thackeray chooses Louis XIV, but any king would do as well...) Date: circa 1840

Becky Sharp, a play, Lyceum Theatre, Ipswich
Becky Sharp, a play based on Thackerays novel, Vanity Fair, at the Lyceum Theatre, Ipswich, previously at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London

By Order of the Owner - Lot 1. Kitty, Chestnut Mare (property of a lady - very fast) - a lightly satirical (to whom does the description apply!!) postcard by Lance Thackeray (1867-1916). Date: 1902

The results of getting married
Beautiful postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Amateur Gardening - A Labour of Love. A handsome gent pushes his lovely wife around their walled garden in a green wooden wheelbarrow

Mistress Beatrix with her candle comes down the staircase of Walcote House to greet Esmond

Vanity Fair / Col. Crawley
Colonel Crawley is wanted

Colonel Newcome adapted by Michael Morton (1864 11 January 1931) from W. M. Thackerays novel The Newcomes (1853-5). First produced at His Majestys Theatre in London, on 29th May 1906

Leap Year - Running the Gauntlet! Date: 1904

The Single Life - Living on his punt
The Single Life - A young gent living alone on his punt Date: 1907

16 Young Street, London
Illustration of 16 Young Street, home of William Makepeace Thackeray. Artist: Sydney Carter. Date: 1904

Young soldier and friend seek to be alone
We don t want to lose you, but we think you ought to go. A young soldier and his lady friend at one end of a bench seeking to remove a gentleman reading a newspaper from the other end of the bench

At the Royal Academy exhibition of 1913. An overhead view of the building, showing the various galleries, with humorous cartoon sketches of visitors above and below. Date: 1913

Egypt Cabman - Cairo
Reproduction of a delightful painting by Lance Thackeray (1870 - 1916) of an Egyptian Cabbie. Date: circa 1910s

Thackeray (Laurence)
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY author of Vanity Fair etc. Date: 1811 - 1863

Thackeray Lecturing
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY the author reading from his works. Date: 1811 - 1863

THACKERAY
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY author of Vanity Fair etc. Date: 1811 - 1863

Thackeray Reading
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY depicted reading The Rose and the Ring to Miss Story. Date: 1811 - 1863

Thackeray Seated
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY author of Vanity Fair etc. Date: 1811 - 1863

Thackeray (Anon)
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY author of Vanity Fair etc. with his autograph Date: 1811 - 1863

Thackeray (Maclise)
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY author of Vanity Fair etc. Date: 1811 - 1863

Anne Ritchie
Lady ANNE ISABELLA RITCHIE (nee Thackeray) novelist, biographer and essayist, author of The story of Elizabeth, Tennyson and his friends etc. Date: 1837 - 1919

3rd Marquis Hertford
FRANCIS CHARLES SEYMOUR CONWAY, third marquis of HERTFORD statesman, model for the marquis of Steyne in Thackerays Vanity Fair Date: 1777 - 1842

Popular Plays - His Majestys Servant - Proud Lad in uniform
Popular Plays - His Majestys Servant - A proud lad in his cadets uniform strides along with an arrogant swagger borne out of the confidence his uniform provides

Bridge Illustrated - Gone on Diamonds
A pretty young lad and her adoring (and rich, although perhaps the Pawnbroker sign top right may mean he isn t all he appears) husband spend some of (his) money on something sparkly at the Jewellers

Syrup Seller - Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

Grandfather and Grandchildren at the seaside - Thackeray
Passive Resistance - A Grandfather, thoroughly enjoying his day at the seaside with the Grandchildren, curbs the speed they can reach the sea, however much they encourage him to get a move

Taking the Waters - I hope no ones looking! A glamorous lady takes the Strong Sulphur waters and hopes nobody spots her... Date: circa 1905

Admiring a Ladies smart new Automobile
Just a few remarks A crowd of town folk admiring a Ladys smart new Automobile. Date: circa 1904

Schoolboy suggest a game of ping pong to W G Grace
" I should like to play you at ping pong" !! A young schoolboy suggests a sensible choice of sporting contest when faced with the colossus of the cricketing world, Dr W G Grace

Dandy Pianist - a Wow with the Party Ladies
Botany - The Dandelion - a florid little man! A wow with all the ladies (up to a point!). A pianist, possibly modelled in part on popular Polish pianist Paderewski? Date: circa 1907

Dashing to give train passenger his change
Urgent - a frantic newspaper boy dashes along the platform to give an elderly train passenger his change for the paper he has purchased

Leap Year - A young woman pops the question
A young woman pops an innocent question to an elderly gentleman at a dance. His look of surprise is due to the date and the fact it is a Leap Year! Date: circa 1904

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863). English victorian novelist. Engraving. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

Delcher & Hennessy present Miss Coghlan as Becky Sharp in Thackerays Vanity fair. Date c1900

Gentleman and his extensive luggage
Fully Equipped - A smart young Gentleman and his extensive luggage en route to a shooting weekend in the country. A porters nightmare... Date: 1908

Taking the Waters and its effect
Taking the Waters - The First Glass ! Nine gentlemen take the waters in a spa town, with the result depicted by a tenth chap at the base of the card, from whom bubbles are issuing forth. circa 1904

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