Thackeray Collection (page 2)

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

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. The portly older gentleman preferring a whiskey and soda

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. A girl watering her high hedge soaks her male companion and then tells him to go

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

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