Traveller Collection (page 27)

The Rocky Mountains, c1834-c1876. Artist: Frances Flora Bond Palmer
The Rocky Mountains, c1834-c1876. Emigrants crossing the plains watched by Native Americans. Published by Currier and Ives, New York, USA

The Virgin Mary as Madonna in Glory (Notre Dame de Grace), 19th century
The Virgin Mary as Madonna in Glory (Notre Dame de Grace) as protector of sailors and travellers, 19th century

St Crispin and St Crispinian, Christian martyrs, 19th century. St Crispin and St Crispinian (dc286), were Roman brothers who went to Soissons, France, to spread the gospel

St Julian, patron saint of travellers, 19th century. Legend has it that St Julian killed his parents by mistake and spent a life of atonement by helping strangers and travellers

Scene from The Adventure of the Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893. Artist: Sidney E Paget
Scene from The Adventure of the Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1893. Illustration by Sidney E Paget, the first artist to draw Sherlock Holmes

Emigration to America, 19th century. Artist: Charles Volkmar
Emigration to America, 19th century. Emigrants being rowed ashore from the vessel that has brought them from Europe

Richard Francis Burton, English explorer and orientalist, 1880. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Richard Francis Burton, English explorer and orientalist, 1880. Burtons (1821-1890) extensive travels included a journey to Mecca, disguised as a Pathan

Gendarmes taking census forms to an encampment of itinerant gipsies in their caravan, 1895. A boy in the foreground leads a muzzled dancing bear. From Le Petit Journal. (Paris, May 1895)

Conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus, 1865-1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
Conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus, 1865-1866. From Gustave Dores Bible (Acts 9)

Marco Polo, Venetian traveller and merchant meeting Kublai Khan, 13th century
Marco Polo, Venetian traveller and merchant meeting Kublai Khan, c1274. Marco Polo (1254-1324), together with his father and uncle, presenting the Popes letter to Kublai Khan (1214-1294)

Prospectors on their way to the Californian gold fields, 1853. Hopefuls off to the Californian gold fields with their belongings and equipment loaded on their horses and carrying pistols and a rifle

London terminus of the London and North Western Railway, Euston, London, c1860. Hand-coloured lithograph from a railway board game showing a busy scene with people

Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and explorer, 14th century. Marco Polo (1254-1324) setting out with his uncles from Venice for the Far East

Headpiece from Thomas Mores Utopia, 1518. First published in 1516, Utopia was a work depicting an ideal state where reason ruled

Title page of Schildtbergers Travels c1554. Hans or Johann Schildtberger (1380-c1440), a Bavarian nobleman, was captured in 1396 by Turks under Sultan Bazajet and sold into slavery in Asia

Girl on her way to starting work in domestic service, 1884. Artist: Marian Gardiner
Girl on her way to starting work in domestic service, 1884. A country girl in a railway carriage leaving home for the first time to go into service as a maid in a city

Arabian travellers on camels, being greeted at the end of their journey. After a 13th century Arab manuscript

John James Audobon (1780-1851), American ornithologist and artist, 1836. In this cartoon, Audobon has a beak for a nose, and his collar, epaulettes and headdress are made of feathers

The capture of two french travelers by brigands in Sardinia, 1894. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 20th August 1894

Passengers on a London to Glasgow train, 1884. Top: as it should be (comfortable and well-ordered). Bottom: as it is (crowded and smoky)

Gulliver in Lilliput. Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, regains consciousness and finds himself a prisoner of the Lilliputians

Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, finds himself in kingdom of the Houyhnhns. He discusses mankind with his master

Portrait of a gentleman in Italy, 1630. Artist: Wolfgang Heimbach
Portrait of a gentleman in Italy, 1630. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris

Alexander Burnes, Scottish diplomat murdered by Afghans during the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1841
Alexander Burnes (1805-1841), centre, Scottish diplomat and traveller murdered by Afghans during the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1841

Bartholemew Diaz (c1455-1500), Portuguese navigator. 19th century wood engraving

Hermes. Greek relief from Thasos, Greece, c470 BC. Relief of the Passage of Theori, from the agora of Thasos. Thasian marble with traces of polychromy

Detail of a Psalter: the Magi follow the Star, c1140. Probably illuminated in Canterbury c1140

Fresco in San Gimignano, 14th century. Artist: Bartolo di Fredi
Fresco in San Gimignano of the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea, 14th century

Cooks Tourists, 1889. An illustration from Punch, March 1889. Thomas Cook founded the travel company that bore his name in 1841. By the late 1880s the company had offices around the world

Passengers joining a P&O liner in the Thames, c1890. Artist: P&O Pencillings
Passengers joining a P&O liner in the Thames, c1890. Embarking for a voyage through the Suez Canal to India, Australia or Japan

Mormons on the trek from Illinois to Utah, 1846 (1853). The Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

The Sphinx, Egypt, 1744. The huge head of the Sphinx, seen from the front. It is just in front of the second pyramid of Memphis. Engraving after FL Norden

Benefits of university education for women, 1887. Artist: George du Maurier
Benefits of university education for women, 1887. A young man in a railway carriage offers a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, some light reading for the journey

English family taking a meal in the station buffet at Boulogne, France, 1886. A poodle begs the children for food

English family travelling to France, 1886. An English family taking the air on deck crossing the English Channel on a steamer on their way to France for a continental holiday

Casualty of the 2nd Boer War, 1899-1902. A wounded British officer in a railway carriage with his wife and daughter on the last lap of his journey home from South Africa

Mail coach on the Bath to London run, c1840. The Mail Guard leans out from the coach to collect mail from the Postmaster (right in nightcap) without stopping

Tyburn Turnpike, Paddington, London, 1813
Tyburn Turnpike, London, 1813. A view of Tyburn Turnpike showing the Toll House and a toll being collected from a horseman near the gatepost. Tyburn in earlier times was a place of public execution

The Red Rover, Southampton Coach, c1815. A crowded Southampton to London stagecoach on its journey

Aerial telegraph: ancient Roman signal towers, c1900. A basket containing fire was hung from an arm near the top of the tower and used to signal a message to the next tower in a chain

Cholera quarantine in Italy. Travellers from Switzerland en route for Italy being kept in quarantine at Bardonnechia, Italy, for five days. Illustration published London, 16 August 1884

Postcard advertising golfing trips to Ireland, c1910. Travelling by the London and North Western Railway, operating between the ports of Liverpool, Heysham and Stranraer

The late Henri Mouhot, naturalist, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The late Henri Mouhot, naturalist, 1862. M. Mouhot was a Frenchman by birth, but, having married into a branch of the family of the late Mungo Park, the African traveller

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