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

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

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

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

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

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

Vanity Fair / Col. Crawley
Colonel Crawley is wanted

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

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

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" !

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

Child embarrasses an up-tight man
Its Rather Embarrassing An up-tight Gentleman doesn t know how to react to the playful young companion in his railway compartment. Date: 1904

Vicar remembering his youth - rowing on the river
Forty Years On A priest remembers the days of his youth, when he too partook in boating down on the river. Date: circa 1906

A Professor of Languages A Language Student returns to his College, but his grasp of the vernacular of his cabby seems less that First Class as he appears to have underpaid his driver

A Matter of Taste A different approach to having a drink between these two boating enthusiasts

Attending the Tulips - Amorous Couple Gardening
Attending the Tulips An amorous couple attending to their two lips (!) whilst working together at their gardening. Date: circa 1906

Silhouette portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray
Silhouette portrait believed to be William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863), English novelist, pictured full-length with a book in hand. c.1845

River Days - Couple going boating
A young couple spending River Days out boating The gentleman is doing the gentlemanly thing and carrying the picnic hamper, the cushions and the oars! Date: circa 1906

Stuck Up - A Punting Disaster
Two illustrations of the phrase Stuck Up. In the main scene, an unlucky man is stuck on his pole as a quiet afternoon punting with his lady loves goes rather wrong (he has lost his hat too!)

Young Oxford Student, College Master and Bulldogs
A young Oxford student greets the Master of his College with all due deference (making sure to hide his smoking pipe behind his back)

Shepheards Hotel, Cairo, Egypt Date: 1906

A Windfall - tasting an apple in the garden
A Windfall - a charming postcard from Lance Thackerays Amateur Gardening series. A lady gives her male companion a taste of the first fallen apple of the season. Date: 1906

A Good Rainfall
A delightful postcard illustrated by Lance Thackeray, entitled A Good Rainfall from the Amateur Gardening series

Punting - pushing off from the bank. " I can just Manage" Date: 1902

East End Couple having fun
A couple from the East End of London " having a real good time!". The gentleman and the lady have swapped hats! Date: circa 1900

Thackerays Home
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY In this feudal-looking house, at No 16 Young Street, lived the famous novelist William Thackeray for several years

Vanity Fair / Sketching
A fine summer evening

Becky Refuses a Proposal
A young lady turns down a propsal from an older gentleman. (Becky Sharp and Sir Pitt Crawley in " Vanity Fair" )

William Thackeray / Brock
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY English novelist

Pendennis as Suitor
Captain Costigan leaves his daughter Emily & her suitor, Master Arthur Pendennis to their own devices

Thackeray / Furniss
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Victorian novelist

Thackeray / Kensington
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY English novelists home at 13 Young Street, Kensington, from 1846 to 1853

Thackerays Handwriting
Manuscript in Thackerays handwriting for " Sorrows of Werther"

Dickens as Bobadil
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens in the role of Captain Bobadil in Ben Jonsons Every Man in His Humour

Thackeray / Virginians
THE VIRGINIANS A welcome to Old England. One of the American twins arrives in England and is welcome by a curious horseman

Thackeray (Selfport)
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY author of Vanity Fair etc

Vanity Fair / Cover Design
Designs for the cover of Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair / Georgy
Georgy a gentleman

Vanity Fair / Mr Jos Shave
Mr Jos shaves off his mustachios

Vanity Fair / Sir Pitt
Sir Pitts last stage

Vanity Fair / Pincushion
Betty discovers the note on the pincushion

Vanity Fair / Mr Sedley
Mr Sedley at the coffee house

Vanity Fair / Rebecca / Bye
Rebeccas farewell

Vanity Fair / Becky
A characteristic specimen of Thackerays work as an illustrator - Becky in Lombard Street

Vanity Fair / Virtue Rewrd
Virtue rewarded, a booth in Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair / Miss Crawley
Miss Crawleys affectionate relatives

Vanity Fair / Live Baronet
Rebecca makes acquaintance with a live baronet

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