Images Dated 29th May 2020 (#3)

Young couple kissing
A young couple in a warm embrace. Artist: Dorothy Kuck. Date: circa 1930

Cat & Roast Turkey
Tabby cat (as the cook) carrying a roast tukey to the table. Artist: (Possibly) Louis Wain. Date: circa 1895

Stonemason
Christmas card. Glad be thy Christmas, Happy thy New Year. Portrait of a classical stone mason at work. A prize design for The Recorder 1882. Artist: (Possibly) Frederic Leighton. Date: 1882

Child Faces
Facial portrait of three children.Date: circa 1920

Female Swimmer
The Swimming Girl. A young Edwardian on the beach readying herself for a swim. Artist: JM Flagg. Date: circa 1904

Oyama Iwao, OM (1842-1916) was a Japanese field marshal, and one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Army. Date: 1903

A Happy Dog
Portrait of a happy dog. Artist: Barbara Briggs. Date: circa 1920

Boy, Girl and a Kite
Image of a boy and girl with a kite. With birthday wishes. Artist: Frances Brundage. Date: circa 1908

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let sleeping dogs lie. A cat espies two sleeping Scotty dogs. Artist: Barbara Briggs. Date: circa 1919

Travel Through Egypt
Girls of Araby. Arabian women in traditional costume carrying fruit and wine. Hilda Dix Sandford illustrated this image as her ship passed through the Suez Canal en rooute to Australia circa 1908

Aboriginal Children
Young boy tasting his girls pie. Hilda Dix Sandford illustrated these children on a visit to Australia circa 1908. Date: circa 1908

Barnards Inn
An engraving depicting the front entrance of Barnards Inn. Barnards Inn is a former Inn of Chancery in Holborn, London. It is now the home of Gresham College

Grays Inn
Engraving depicting the Hall of Grays Inn

Old Houses in Holborn
Engraving depicting old properties in Holborn, opposite Grays Inn Road

Middle Row, Holborn
Engraving depicting Middle Row, Holborn, a block of three or four properties that obstructed the free-flow of Holborns traffic, seen here shortly before their demolition in 1868

Ely House
Engraving depicting the Hall of Ely House, the London townhouse of the Bishops of Ely from 1290 to 1772. Engraving from Groses Antiquities 1772. Date: 1772

Sacheverell Cards
Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724) was an English high church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon denouncing the Whig government

St Andrew Holborn
Engaving depicting the interior of St Andrew Holborn. circa 1840. Date: circa 1840

Metropolitan Meat Market
19th century engraving of the Metropolitan Meat Market. The market originally covered 30 acres of the site and grounds of Copenhagen House (previously a pleasure resort and tea garden)

Giltspur Street Compter
Engraving depicting the Giltspur Street Compter in 1840. It was a compter or small prison, designed by English architect and surveyor George Dance the Younger, mainly used to hold debtors

Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmiths house, Green Arbour Court, near the Old Bailey, London

Coronation of George IV
View depicting the Coronation of George IV in Westminster Hall enacting the Champions Challenge, a feudal ritual

Sir Henry Dymoke, 1st Baronet (1801-1865) was the Kings champion in 1821 at the coronation of King George IV (reigned 1820-1830), the last time the traditional ritual was enacted

Saracens Head, Snow Hill
The Saracens Head, Snow Hill. From a sketch taken during its demolition in 1863. It was a celebrated tavern and coaching establishment, which stood on the north side of Snow Hill, without Newgate

King Charless Porter and Dwarf
A bas relief over the entrance to Bulls Head Court preserves the memory og a giant and a very small dwarf. The effigies represent William Evans a Welsh porter over 2 metres in height

Red Lion Tavern
Various aspects of the old Red Lion Tavern. Possibly dating from the mid-16th century, this rambling building stood in Chick Lane (also called West Street) near Saffron Hill in West Smithfield

The Hand & Shears
An 1811 view of the Hand & Shears, a public house in Smithfield built early in the 19th century. It was named after the former Bartholomew Fair, held at Smithfield for centuries

Raheres Tomb
Rahere (or Raher) was an Anglo-Norman priest and monk. He was a favourite of King Henry I and is most famous for having founded the Priory of the Hospital of St Bartholomew in 1123

St Bartholomew-the-Great
Engaving depicting St Bartholomew-the-Great in 1737. The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, is a medieval church in Smithfield within the City of London

Coffee Room Clerkenwell
Coffee room by St Johns Gate, Clerkenwell - a favouite haunt of Dr Samuel Johnson

Bishop Burnets House in St Johns Square, Clerkenwell, London, 1866. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) was a Scottish philosopher, historian and cleric who became Bishop of Salisbury in 1689

Edward Cave (1691-1754). was an English printer, editor and publisher. He coined the term magazine for a periodical, founding The Gentlemans Magazine in 1731

St John of Jerusalem
Artists impression of various aspects of the Monastery of St John of Jerusalem, consecrated in 1185 in the reign of Henry II

Church of St John Clerkenwell
Artists impression of the original priory church of St John, Clerkenwell. circa 12th century. Date: circa 12th century

Copenhagen House was a famous tavern & tea-garden which stood in what is now Copenhagen Park, N7, from early 17th century until 1855

Canonbury Tower
Engaving depicting Canonbury Tower circa 1800. The manor house of Canonbury was constructed by William Bolton of St Bartholomews Priory between 1509 and 1532. The tower was added in the 1590s

Chapel Royal, Whitehall
The Chapel Royal is an establishment in the Royal Household serving the spiritual needs of the sovereign of the British royal family

View of London
Engaving depicting London from Clerkenwell (City & East End). From a view by Canaletto published in 1753. Date: 1753

Old Bethlem Hospital
Engraving depicting Old Bethlem Hospital, Moorfields. circa 1750. Date: circa 1750

Whittingtons House
Victorian montage of prominent buildings around Aldgate - Whittingtons house, Grub St, General Monks house, Bloomfields house and the remains of Aldgate, Bethnal Green

Barber-Surgeons Picture
Barber-Surgeon Companys picture depicting Henry VIII granting a charter to the corporation of London

The Old Post Office
The old Post Office in Lombard Street. 1800. Date: 1800

St Giles Cripplegate
Engaving depicting St Giles Cripplegate showing the old wall. It is an Anglican church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex.When built it stood outside

Prince Ruperts House
Prince Ruperts house in Beech Street, Barbican. He was a German-English army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor

The Fortune Theatre
The Fortune, opened around 1600 by Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn was one of the celebrated and earliest Elizabethan theatres and stood between Whitecross Street and Golding Lane

Old Whitehall Stairs
The route once taken when the bodies of many famous personages were taken by river en route to interment at Westminster Abbey

The new Post Office
The new general Post Office in St Martins-le-Grand opened in 1874

Coachmakers shop
An old coachmakers shop in Long Acre, London

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