Best of British Collection (page 2)

The Old Kitchen at Miss Cranstons Tea House, Argyle Street, Glasgow, c1906. Catherine Cranston (1849-1934) employed Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) to design the interior of her Tea House

Mr P Perrin, Essex cricketer, c1899. Artist: WA Rouch
Mr P Perrin, Essex cricketer, c1899. Percy Perrin (1876-1945) played for Essex from 1896 until 1928. He scored 66 centuries, the third highest total amongst players who never played Test cricket

A Speciality, 1882 (1891). Artist: George du Maurier
A Speciality, 1882. A print from Society Pictures, drawn by George du Maurier, selected from Punch, Volume I, London, 1891

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857 (1956)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857, (1956). Brunel (1806-1859) standing in front of the launching chains of his steamship the Great Eastern

Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer, 1854. Florence Nightingale made her reputation by her organisation of nursing service during the Crimean War

Charles Darwin, British naturalist, 1878. Darwin started his career on board the HMS Beagle and spent six years surveying the South American seas

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English novelist, 1908-1909. Bronte was the author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette. The Bronte family of Haworth in Yorkshire was a literary family; Charlottes

The George, 17th century inn, Southwark, London, 1926-1927. Artist: McLeish
The George, 17th century inn, Southwark, London, 1926-1927. Londons only surviving galleried coaching inn was rebuilt in 1676 after a fire

Howard Baker, goalkeeper, Stamford Bridge, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

Luncheon time behind the grand stand, Ascot races, 1872. A print from The Illustrated London News, 15th June 1872. Hand-coloured later

The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Holmes and Watson on train. Artist: Sidney E Paget
The Adventure of Silver Blaze: Holmes gave me a sketch of the events. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on train to Devon to investigate a murder and the disappearance of a famous racehorse

Charlie Chaplin, English / American actor and comedian, 1928
Charlie Chaplin, English/American actor and comedian, 1928. Seen here in a scene from The Circus, Chaplin (1889-1977) was an Academy Award-winning actor and director

Rolls-Royce enclosed drive landaulette with partition behind the driver, c1910-1929(?). A print from the Thrupp and Maberly Ltds coachbuilding handbook or catalogue

Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1798-1799. Artist: Lemuel Francis Abbott
Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1798-1799. Probably the most famous portrait of Nelson, painted after his victory at the Battle of the Nile, from an earlier sketch

King Henry VIII, c1538-1547, (c1900-1920). A print after a painting in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, from Art History and Literature Illustrations, by Jessie Noakes, Virtue and Co, (London)

A Yeoman of the Guard, c1905. Print published in Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905). Original painting by Sir John Everett Millais

Queen Victoria in 1899, (1901). Artist: Heinrich von Angeli
Queen Victoria in 1899 at the age of 78, (1901). Victoria (1819-1901), was the longest reigning British monarch. She ruled from 1837 until 1901

Houses of Parliament, London, 20th Century. Much of the present Palace of Westminster was designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin, and was constructed between 1837 and 1858

William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1609. Portrait in oils dated 1609. This is the portrait engraved by Droeshout for the First Folio edition of his plays published in 1623

Afternoon Tea, 1886. Three young ladies in white dresses and straw bonnets take tea on the lawn in a walled garden with a wide herbaceous border. Chromolithograph after Kate Greenaway

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