Text Collection (#36)

Cottage
1815: A view of a cottage on the Isle of Anglesey, near the Paris Mine, engraved by F Stevens and published in 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Military Tower
circa 1930: A tower commemorating the military exploits of French colonisation, with names of generals and principal battles engraved on the four white pillars, at the Exhibition International

Anti-Corn Law
A cartoon showing the floor of Covent garden being scrubbed clean of the words Anti-Corn Law whilst a top-hatted man and his assistants purify the air

Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Engraved scene of people visiting and looking at statues in Madame Tussauds Wax museum on Baker Street, London, circa 1830s. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Scen From Rip Van Winkle
Engraved illustration of a scene from Washington Irvings 1819 Rip van Winkle shows a large group of people in the street outside of the George Washington tavern as they crowd around, point at

Alarmed By Foreigners
Mr and Mrs John Brown visit the theatre during the Great Exhibition in London, 1851, and are alarmed by the appearance of the many foreigners around them

Inuit Feast
A group of Eskimo people feasting on a tub full of tallow at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, 1851

Home Made Wigwam
Oppressed by the heat at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, 1851, Mr and Mrs John Brown shelter under an umbrella in imitation of the native American teepees on display

Sleeping In A Hansom
Exhausted by their visit and unable to find accommodation during the Great Exhibition, London, 1851, Mr and Mrs John Brown spend the night in a taxi cab

Caught Up In The Crowd
John Brown is carried along by the crowd at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, 1851. One of a series of etchings depicting the experiences of a typical English couple at

Antique illustration of ornate capital letter A: within the letter is a half-naked woman holding her veil (by Francois Ehrmann)

Antique illustration of man riding horse at the coaching house
Antique illustration of man about to dismount the horse at a farm. A man is helping the rider dismounting, a woman comes by with a bucket

Antique illustration of ornate letter L
Antique illustration of decorated capital letter L

Antique illustration of ornate letter Q with women playing music
Antique illustration of ornate capital letter Q: within the letter there are two women playing musical instruments: one is playing a sort of cithara, the other one a sort of double-trumpet

Antique illustration of ornate capital letter t within a frame. At the two sides of the T sit two twin kids, naked and holding a cup

Twin rotation printing press

Antique illustration of ornate letter O

Antique illustration of ornate letter A

Antique illustration of lunch of a 16th century Flemish gentleman from a picture of the 16th century Grimani Breviary, masterpiece of Flemish manuscript illumination

Antique illustration of Psyche with her two sisters
Antique illustration of Psyche (the very beautiful pregnant girl the middle) with her two (just normally beautiful) sisters

Antique illustration of argument between Italian women in a street of Venice (drawing from Alexandre Brun from the painting by Remigius Adrianus Haanen or Remigius (Remy) van Haanen

Antique illustration of ornate letter T

Antique illustration of ornate letter L

Antique illustration of ornate letter E

Antique illustration of ornate letter V

Antique illustration of ornate letter J

Light Music Arrangement
The cover of a dance arrangement of Alfred Celliers Dorothy by Procida Bucalossi, published by Chappell & Co of London, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Millbank Cell
A prisoner making shoes in a single cell at Millbank Prison, Pimlico, London, circa 1860. Prisoners were subjected to solitary confinement under the separate system operated at the prison

Abbey Road road sign, London
Famous Abbey Road road sign covered with grafitti from Beatle fans

New Brunswick
Minimalist retro poster of New Brunswick

View over the Berlin Wall in 1985, detached house next to a watchtower adjacent to the inner German border, known as the Death Strip, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Graffiti (on the berlin wall)

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