Writing Collection (page 42)

Ms - 11th Century Gospel
Saint Luke, depicted in an 11th century English gospel

Monk Copying
A monk copyist at his desk, with his lectern at his elbow

Illiterate Workers Bill
An exact copy of a bill for 10s. 10d. sent by a bricklayer who could not write, to a gentlman for whom he had worked. The symbol for settled is very dramatic! Date: late 19th century

Dutch Writing Master
The writing master sharpens his quill pen before continuing with the lesson

Jm Barrie / Young Man
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan

Dactyle Typewriter / 1896
A Dactyle typewriter

St Mark / Evangelist / Codex
SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST Saint Mark shown writing his gospel with his symbol the lion in the pannel above

St Matthew / Evang / Rubens
SAINT MATTHEW THE EVANGELIST Saint Matthew writing his gospel, the angel behind indicating that his inspiration comes from heaven

St Mark / Evangelist / Latin
SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST Saint Mark shown writing his gospel with his symbol the lion

Goldsmith Writing
OLIVER GOLDSMITH depicted in the act of writing with his autograph

Lake District / Syntax
A tourist in Englands Lake District sketches the scene before him - at this time, tourists carry sketch-books the way later travellers will carry cameras. Date: 1815

Kells : Saint Matthew
SAINT MATTHEW

Writing home - Vietnam
A young, captured North Vietnamese soldier is allowed to write a letter home

Manuscript of E. A. Poe
An example of Edgar Allan Poes handwriting

Letter from De Gaulle
Writing from Algiers, De Gaulle praises the Resistance, promising that the end is near and they ll soon be weeping tears of joy

Christine De Pisan / Btwek
CHRISTINE DE PISAN French writer

Slade Tested - 2
A drawing shows how Slade used slight-of-hand to perform his slate-writing trick

Lafayette, Seated Writing
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de LAFAYETTE French revolutionary general and statesman, served in American Independence War

Girl Writing (G way)
A Victorian girl at her writing table with ink pen and pot

William Gilbert
WILLIAM GILBERT doctor and scientist, depicted writing his De Arte Magnetica

Swiveller & Marchioness
Dick Swiveller is disturbed at his writing desk by The Marchioness, the poor little servant girl kept locked below stairs by the Brass family

Graffiti, Rotherhithe
Graffiti on a park bench in Rotherhithe, London: A boy farted ERE

Silhouette / Woman Writes
Advertisement for a fountain pen featuring a silhouette of a woman sitting under a tree writing

Office Worker
A man with a rather lavish moustache sits at his desk with his cheque book open

16th Century Koran
A fine manuscript page on handmade paper from the Ottoman Koran, finely scripted and embellished in gold leaf. Blue and gold roundels mark the name of ALLAH

16th Century Koran Page
A fine manuscript page on handmade paper from the Ottoman Koran, finely scripted and embellished in gold leaf. Reverse of page

Classroom Scene / Primary
Walter Halls Primary School, Nottingham Children reading, writing and drawing

France / Woman Writing 20C
A woman writes a letter at a table in a cafe

Cultural Activities 16C
Mercury rides over in cockerel-driven chariot as citizens practice arts & sciences: painting, sculpture, music, medicine, astronomy & others

Girl Writes in Snow 1890
A Victorian girl sets down her basket of holly to write a Christmas message in the snow with her umbrella

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Stevenson / Furniss
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Scottish novelist and poet

KIPLING
English writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Gustave Dore / Furniss
GUSTAVE DORE French illustrator

Dickens / Furniss
CHARLES DICKENS Victorian novelist

Thackeray / Furniss
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Victorian novelist

Writing Letters
A collection of letters, an ink well and quill

Erasmus / Holbein / Quantin
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Dutch humanist

Strindberg / Self Photo
JOHAN AUGUST STRINDBERG Swedish playwright and novelist, best known for his play Miss Julie (1888), seen writing at his desk

EGINHARD French Chronicler of Charlemagne

Writing / Runes
Runesten (= rune stone) at Vedelspang, Sonderjylland, Norway

Burns and his Muse
A poet (Robert Burns, garlanded with a laurel wreath) is visited by his muse

Cat Benefits from Will
Mlle. Dupuy, noted harpist who believed that her skill came from her cat, leaves most of her property to him in her will

Monk Mathematicians
Monastic mathematicians : until the creation of universities, monastic establishments were the centres of learning

Girls Reading & Writing
Girls reading and writing

Paul Verlaine, French poet, writing at a cafe table
Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here writing at a cafe table

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