Barter Collection

Maori war-canoe at Tauranga, New Zealand, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Maori war-canoe at Tauranga, New Zealand, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Lieutenant Robley, of the 68th Regiment, '...now stationed at Tauranga...The natives of the shores of the Bay of Plenty

Sketches of the British South African Company's Expedition to Mashonaland, 1891. Creator: Unknown
'Sketches of the British South African Company's Expedition to Mashonaland; Bartering for Produce with the Natives, 1891. From "The Graphic

A swap, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A swap, c1905. Crow men on horseback apparently involved in an exchange

Trade Beads, c. 1936. Creator: Walter Praefke
Trade Beads, c. 1936

The Butcher - Newport Market Alley, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
The Butcher-Newport Market Alley, 1872. Butcher cutting meat for femal customer in Newport Market, Leicester Square. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold

Tarquinius and the Sibyl, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Tarquinius and the Sibyl, 1890. From " Cassells Illustrated Universal History Vol. II - Rome", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

A Palestine Bazaar - Luke xxii. 36, c1924. Creators: James Clark, Henry A Harper
A Palestine Bazaar - Luke xxii. 36, c1924. Luke 22:36 He said to them, " But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one

Old Shooes for Some Broomes, Cries of London, (c1688?)
Old Shooes for Some Broomes. A street seller who exchanged old shoes for brooms, carrying a large bundle of brooms fastened to a stick. From Cries of London, (c1688?)

Old Shoes for some Brooms, Cries of London, (c1688?)
Old Shoes for some Brooms. A street seller who exchanged old shoes for brooms, carrying a large bundle of brooms fastened to a stick. From Cries of London, (c1688?)

The beginnings of commerce: primitive people bartering ivory tusks and bull hides, 1907. From Harmsworth History of the World, Volume 1, by Arthur Mee, J.A. Hammerton, & A.D. Innes, M.A

Cries of London, 3rd Plate, Sweet China Oranges, 1794, (1911)
Cries of London, 3rd Plate, Sweet China Oranges, sweet China Oranges sucrees. Oranges fines. 1794. After an original work by Francis Wheatley (1747-1801)

Khoikhois bartering cattle, South Africa, 1931. Plate taken from Historic Farms of South Africa, by Dorothea Fairbridge, published by Oxford University Press (London, 1931)

Merchants, 14th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original manuscript illustration held by the Bibliotheque Royale in Brussels

Studies by Luca Signorelli, 1913Artist: Luca Signorelli
Studies by Luca Signorelli, 1913. Luca Signorelli (c1445-1523) was a Italian Renaissance painter. A print from The Art of the Great Masters, by Frederic Lees, Sampson Low, Marston and Co, London, 1913

Old Clothes Market, Moscow, c19th century

Sale at Calcutta of valuable government presents and Lucknow jewels, 1860. A print from The Illustrated London News, 24th November 1860. Hand-coloured later

The Sale of Nature, c1584-1637. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Sale of Nature, c1584-1637. From a private collection

The blue monuments
These record a transaction of land for goods in Uruk

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