British Collection (page 22)

City Justice, 1880. Artist: Spy
City Justice, 1880. Alderman Sir Robert Walter Carden, British banker, politician and magistrate. Carden (1801-1888) served as Lord Mayor of London from 1857-1858

Cattistock, 1899. Artist: CG
Cattistock, 1899. John Hargreaves on horseback in hunting clothes. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, 30th March 1899

The General, 1881. Artist: Spy
The General, 1881. Mourdaunt Fenwick Bisset MP. Bisset served as Conservative MP for West Somerset from 1880-1884. He was Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds from 1855 until 1881

Bobby, 1902. Artist: Spy
Bobby, 1902. Robert Abel, English cricketer. Bobby Abel (1857-1936) was an opening batsman for Surrey and England. In a career lasting from 1881 until 1904 he scored 33

Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent, home of Baronet Knatchbull, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, home of Baron Tollemache, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Castle Coole, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, home of the Earl of Belmore, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

The entrance to Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wiltshire, early 20th century. In 1968, Marlborough became the first major English public school to allow girls into the sixth form

Glynis Johns, British actress, singer and dancer, 20th century. Artist: Rank Organisation
Glynis Johns, British actress, singer and dancer, 20th century. Glynis Johns made her first film appearance in South Riding in 1938

Mr Winkle on the Ice, 1915. Artist: Frank Reynolds
Mr Winkle on the Ice, 1915. A scene from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, used in an advert for Black and White and Red Seal Scotch Whisky

Ferniehirst Castle, Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland, 1924-1926. Artist: Valentine & Sons Ltd
Ferniehirst Castle, Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland, 1924-1926. Ferniehirst Castle was originally built by the Ker family in around 1470

Droxford, Hampshire, 1905

Dreadnoughts and hydroplane, British Grand Fleet, North Sea, First World War, 1914. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914)

Children feeding the swans on the Serpentine, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

The potteries, 1926. Artist: Edgar & Winifred Ward
The potteries, 1926. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake

Queen Mary visiting a Welsh colliery, 1935. A print from King Emperors Jubilee, 1910-1935, by FGH Salusbury, Daily Express Publications, London, 1935

Red Lion Square, London, in 1800, 1878. Red Lion Square is situated on the boundary between Bloomsbury and Holborn. It was laid out in 1684 by the economist and financial speculator Nicholas Barbon

Rozelle Gates, on the road to Burns Cottage, Ayr, Ayrshire, 1913. From the Caledonia series of postcards

Interior of Mrs Ewart Sofios house, 25 Bark Place, Bayswater, London, 1932. Designed by Jack Killick. From The Studio Volume 104. [The Offices of the Studio, London, 1932]

Warwick the Kingmaker, 15th century English nobleman and soldier, (1893)
Warwick the King aker, 15th century English nobleman and soldier, (1893). Warwick (1428-1471) in armour holding a shield and sword

Letter by Oliver Cromwell to General Fairfax, 1646 (1865). Artist: Frederick George Netherclift
Letter by Oliver Cromwell to General Fairfax, 1646 (1865). Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax were the two senior generals on the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War

Interior of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, 1924-1926. Artist: Thomas Kent
Interior of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, 1924-1926. The building of St Magnus Cathedral began in 1137, with additions made over the following three centuries

On the Newmarket Road, 1820, (1825)

St Botolphs Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, 1842. Artist: John Le Keux
St Botolphs Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, 1842

The Landore Siemens steel works, c1880
The Landore Siemens steelworks, c1880. View of the factory in South Wales. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York)

Charging a modern blast furnace, Govan Iron Works, Glasgow, c1880. Artist: WD Scott-Moncrieff
Charging a modern blast furnace, Govan Iron Works, Glasgow, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

Mr James Gillray, from a portrait by himself, c1800. Artist: James Gillray
Mr James Gillray, from a portrait by himself, c1800. Self-portrait of British satirical cartoonist Gillray (1756-1815). Engraving after a miniature

The Featherd Fair in a Fright, 18th century. Women with elaborate feathered hairdos flee from angry ostriches who want their feathers back

Chess celebrities at the late chess meeting, 1855. Herr Lowenthal, M De Riviere, Mr Wyvill, MP, Herr Falkbeer, Mr Staunton, Lord Lyttelton, Captain Kennedy

Defeat of Colonel Gore, by the Insurgents at St Denis, 22 November 1837, (1877). British military leader Charles Gore is killed by French patriotes in Quebec

Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, British grocer and yachtsman, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, British grocer and yachtsman, 1926. Portrait of Lipton (1848-1931) who created the famous Lipton tea brand and took part in the Americas Cup

Sunday Morning in the New Cut, Lambeth, 1872. Artist: Smith
Sunday Morning in the New Cut, Lambeth, 1872. An engraving from the Illustrated London News, (27 January 1872). Hand-coloured later

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British statesman, 1846 (c1905). Palmerston (1784-1865) served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid 19th century

Types of soldiers from the first half of the 19th century, 1900. Artist: Richard Knotel
Types of soldiers from the first half of the 19th century, 1900. Illustrations of uniforms from various different countries during the Napoleonic Wars

Abercrombie In Egypt, 1801 (c1850s). Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734-1801) died in battle against the French near Alexandria in Egypt

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, (1910). Villiers, (1592-1628) was a favourite of King James I

St James, Bermondsey, Surrey, 1829. Artist: R Winkles
St James, Bermondsey, Surrey, 1829. Designed by James Savage and completed in 1829, St James, Bermondsey was one of the largest of the Waterloo Churches built in England in the early-mid 19th century

Field Marshal Douglas Haig reviewing Canadian troops, Drocourt-Queant, 31 August 1918, (1926)
Field Marshal Douglas Haig reviewing Canadian troops, Drocourt-Queant, France, 31 August 1918. Two days later the Canadians attacked and broke through the German defences of the Drocourt-Queant Line

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman, 1902. Artist: G Lekegian
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman, 1902. Kitchener (1850-1916) regained the Sudan for Egypt by his victory at the Battle of Omdurman (1898)

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, c1867. Artist: Frederick Hollyer
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, c1867. Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the most noted and at times shocking poets of the Victorian era

John Hampden Esquire, 19th century. Artist: J Posselwhite
John Hampden Esquire, 19th century. English Parliamentary leader (1594-1643) who opposed King Charles I over ship money, an episode in the controversies that ultimately led to the English Civil Wars

A Christmas Dinner on the Heights before Sevastopol, 1855. Artist: William Simpson
A Christmas Dinner on the Heights before Sevastopol, 1855. Troops celebrating Christmas during the Crimean War. Found in the collection of the State Museum of the Defence of Sevastopol 1854-1855

The Reform Bill, 1832 (c1850s). The Rt Hon Earl Grey introduced the Reform Act in Parliament in 1832. It was intended to make wide-ranging changes to the British electoral system

Great Eastern on the stocks at Millwall on the Thames, 1857. View from the stern, showing the vessel in John Scott Russells (1808-1882) yard

New Lanark Mills, Scotland, c1815. Robert Owens (1771-1858) model community of cotton mills and housing. Educational facilities were provided, as well as the worlds first day nursery

Euston Station, London terminus of London and Birmingham Railway, 1840. A man greets a female passenger while luggage on the cariage roof is untied. Iron pillars and trusses support the station roof

Pair of Celtic Bronze Bulls, Bulbury Camp, Dorset, England, c1st century BC - c1st century. Probably mountings from a chariot-spoke

Ensign of the Grenadier Guards, 1844. Note the grenades on the guardsmens collars and belts. From Costumes of the British Army, published by R Ackermann, 1844

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