Thin Collection (page 8)

The Captain
Harlequin illustration, showing the Captain standing in a typical bragging pose. Date: 1923

Nursery Rhymes -- man watching pigs in a sty
Nursery Rhymes -- a man watching pigs in a sty. In the first illustration the pigs are plump and happy, but in the second they are thin and crying. Date: early 20th century

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, man and two women
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing a thin man whose trousers are too big for him, chatting with two women -- Very few have any superfluous fat of their own. Date: 1940-1945

The Tinkers. Barker, Thomas of Bath 1769 - 1847 (attributed to)

Christmas Greeting card featuring garden moths
Christmas Greeting card featuring three white garden moths alighting on a twig. Date: circa 1910s

Prairie wigwam - home to an indigenous Mother and Uncle
Prairie wigwam - home to the indigenous mans Mother and Uncle, both of whom peep out of suitable holes in the decorated canvas covering. It looks as if the Uncle has already hit the bottle

French Fantasy Beauty in see-through drape poses dramatically in front of a mysterious landscape vista. Date: circa 1910s

Vietnamese Beauty from My To, Tien Giang Province
A delightful photographic study of a beautiful Vietnamese girl from My Tho (the capital city of Tien Giang Province, located in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam)

Malaga - Spain - Calle Pintoresca. Date: circa 1920s

The Times Building, New York City, USA
The Times Building - One Times Square, New York City, USA. Now completely obscured by advertising hoardings! Date: 1905

A rather unpopular sporting character - late Victorian era - known a Poison Date: 1896

Souvenir of Scarborough - Elderly Widow - looking through her Lorgnette spectacles to little a-veil... Date: circa 1890s

The Two Macs - a theatrical comedy act of the London Variety theatres of the late Victorian age. Date: circa 1895

Spinster Street Singer sings her tale of woe
Spinster Street Singer and her tale of woe, sung in tremulous tones !! Street Singer (in tremulous tones) - " An oi tell them they need not come wooin ter me." Date: 1900

Pretty girl in white dress looking through photograph album
Pretty girl in a thin and off-the-shoulder white dress looking through a photograph album. What are the contents ?? Date: circa 1910s

Sordino - known to the French as a pochette - this instrument is a pocket fiddle. Derived in form from the medieval Rebec, orignating from the Near East and also known as the Gigue

Pretty French girl with roses
Pretty French girl in wide-brimmed hat clutching a large bunch of roses to her breast. Date: circa 1910s

Belgian Infantry in action at Malines - WWI
Belgian Infantry in action at Malines (Mechelen / Mechlin) on 25th August 1914 during the first week of the conflict during WWI. Date: 1914

Design for Printed Textile with thin stripes. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1919

LS Plate 168 from the John Reeves Collection

LS Plate 176 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Oxynoticeras oxynotum, ammonite
Shown here is the ventral view of this Lower Jurassic oxycone ammonite

Regalecus glesne, oarfish
Specimen of an oarfish (Realecus glesne). This species of fish is possibly the longest in the world. Photographed by Harry Taylor

Wulfenite comprises of (lead molybdate) and is characterized by thin, square tabulate crystal structures

Strontianite comprises of strontium carbonate with white spiky crystals and derives from the aragonite group. This specimen is from the collections held at the Natural History Museum, London

Watercolour 58 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 58 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Onion skin boulder
Onion skin is a type of weathering where thin layers are exfoliated by erosion processes producing an onion skin effect

Carved nephrite bowl
Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

Man in a crowd in a Yugoslavian street
A man in a crowd in a Yugoslavian street. He is carrying a wooden barrel, possibly containing cheese. Date: September 1965

Caricature of Franz Liszt at the keyboard
A caricature of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in 1842, playing at the keyboard in his usual flamboyant way. Date: 1842

Auxiliary London firemen at drill on a fireboat, WW2
Auxiliary London firemen (AFS) under instruction in the use of a rocket-line as part of their fireboat drills and training

Satirical cartoon, An Aerial Excursion, showing a thin Englishman and a plump Frenchwoman in a balloon, while the crowd on the ground makes rude comments in speech bubbles. 1802

British sailor on a mule, pushed by Egyptian man
Push on with it, Mohamed -- a British sailor riding on a reluctant white mule, being pushed by a thin Egyptian man. Date: 1916

Silhouette of hotel commissionaire
Full-length silhouette of a commissionaire of The Cairn Hotel, in his uniform

The Waning Moon I m going down-hill fast, My bones are cold, its raining, My money spent, my chances past, I m waning, waning, waning! Date: circa 1910s

Benedictine Convent at Monreale, Italy
Benedictine Convent at Monreale, Sicily, Italy. A fine example of cloister architecture with Gothic arches and thin patterned columns

Romanian man with bunch of thin sticks
Romanian man with bunch of sticks, some held in a pouch under his arm. These obviously serve a deliberate purpose, but sadly this purpose has (as yet) escaped our powers of deduction... Date: 1915

Oriental Beauty - Egypt
Oriental Beauty in Egypt holding up a thin gossamer wrap/shawl Date: circa 1909

Comparison of height and girth
A small squat, bald and rather rotund Italian gentleman, complains to his slender and tall friend about the disparity in their physicality! Date: 1917

The Old Quarter - Nice, France Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Geisha girl preparing daikon
Japan - Geisha girl preparing (cutting) daikon (white radish), possibly for takuan or bettarazuke dishes. Date: circa 1910s

Swedish Ice Yachting
A happy young woman ice yachting (or sail skating) on a frozen lake in Sweden. Date: 1930s

Two ladies in evening wear by Martial et Armand and Beer
Two fashionable ladies in the latest evening wear. On the left, a skimpy white crepe evening dress with silver decoration and thin straps around the neck, under a white fur coat

Greek Artistic Beauty, elegantly draped in thin pink chiffon and holding a variety of metal amphorae. She seems to have forgotten some of her clothing however.... Date: circa 1910s

Indian soldier after the Siege of Kut, WW1
An Indian soldier in an emaciated condition after the Siege of Kut (1916), Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Indian soldiers after the Siege of Kut, WW1
Indian soldiers in an emaciated condition after the Siege of Kut (1916), Mesopotamia (now Iraq), during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Valparaiso, Chile - Avenida Brasil. Date: circa 1910

Two men on a street, one tall and slim, the other short and plump. Horace asks: Got such a thing as a spare fiver on you, old chap? The reply is unprintable. circa 1916

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