Clerk Collection (page 2)

The sleeping congregation, 1736. Artist: William Hogarth
The sleeping congregation, 1736. The scene is a country church, the only member of the congregation awake (besides the speaker) is the clerk who observes the charms of a young girl

The Lottery Contrast, 1760. The entrance to Touchpenny, Fortune and Winalls State Lottery Office; clerks are at a table within; oyster woman exulting over winnings

The Toilet of an Attorneys Clerk, c1778-1832. Artist: Philibert Louis Debucourt
The Toilet of an Attorneys Clerk, c1778-1832

Constantijn Huygens and his Clerk, 1627, (c1915). Artist: Thomas de Keyser
Constantijn Huygens and his Clerk, 1627, (c1915). Held by the National Gallery, London. From International Art: Past and Present by Alfred Yockney. [Virtue & Company, London, c1915]

Clerk using a Pascal adding machine, 1835
Clerk using an adding machine of the type developed by Blaise Pascal (1623-1664), 1835. (Colorised black and white print)

Robert taken prisoner by the clerk Baudri, 1106 (1864). Artist: James William Edmund Doyle
Robert taken prisoner by the clerk Baudri, 1864. Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy (c1051-1134) and elder brother of Henry I, taken prisoner by the Breton clerk, Baudri at Tinchebraye, Normandy

Sir John Godsalve, c1532-1534 (1945). Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
Sir John Godsalve, c1532-1534 (1945). Sir John Godsalve (c, 1505-1556), of London and Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician. Elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich in 1539 and 1542

The Bill of Rights ratified at the Revolution by King William, and Queen Mary previous to their Cor Artist: John Cary
The Bill of Rights ratified at the Revolution by King William, and Queen Mary previous to their Coronation, 1783. After Samuel Wale (c1721-1786)

Public search room at the Probate Registry, Somerset House, London, c1901 (1901). From Living London, Vol. 1, edited by George R. Sims

Scene from Much Ado about Nothing, c1890. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey
Scene from Much Ado about Nothing, c1890. William Shakespeares comedy Much Ado about Nothing was first performed c1598. In this scene (Act 4 Sc 2), Dogberry, Constable of the watch

The Bench, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
The Bench, 18th century. Scene showing judges sitting in the Court of the Kings Bench, with Sir John Willes, Lord Chief Justice, in centre, and Henry Bathurst on his left, asleep

Sleeping Congregation, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
Sleeping Congregation, 18th century. The scene is a country church, the only member of the congregation awake (besides the speaker) is the clerk who observes the charms of a young girl

Laughing Audience, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
Laughing Audience, 18th century. Cartoon showing the inside of a theatre and the reactions of different parts of the audience to the play

The Bathos, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
The Bathos, 18th century. Time expiring, collapsed against a broken column, with the blade of his scythe snapped and his hour glass smashed, blowing out smoke from his broken pipe

Elizabeth Louise, Queen of Prussia, 19th century. Artist: W Clerk
Elizabeth Louise, Queen of Prussia, 19th century. Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (1801-1873), Queen Consort of Prussia

Seal of the King of the Basoche, 16th century (1870)
Seal of the King of the Basoche, 16th century, (1870). The Basoche was the guild of legal clerks of the Paris court system under the pre-revolutionary French monarchy

Long Room in the Custom House. Payment of the Customs, c1841. Artist: Henry Melville
Long Room in the Custom House. Payment of the Customs, c1841. From London Interiors with their Costumes & Ceremonies from Drawings made by permission of the Public Offices

The Rotunda, Bank of England - Payment of Dividends, c1841. Artist: John Shury
The Rotunda, Bank of England - Payment of Dividends, c1841. From London Interiors with their Costumes & Ceremonies from Drawings made by permission of the Public Offices

One hundred clerks, New College, Oxford, c1453, (1892). An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume I, Macmillan and Co, London

June - Holiday at the Public Offices, c1836. Artist: George Cruikshank
June - Holiday at the Public Offices, c1836. Illustration from the Comic Almanack

The new registry of wills office, Somerset House, London, 1875. From 1837 the Registrar General of Births, Marriages and Deaths was in the North Wing of Somerset House

Smugglers Alarmed, 18th century. Artist: W Clerk
Smugglers Alarmed, 18th century. One man watches through the keyhole, another loads a pistol and a third hides contraband. High customs duties meant that smuggling was rife

Initial letter C, early 14th century, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
Initial letter C, early 14th century, (1843). After a manuscript illustration to the poem by Gautier de Metz Image du Monde

Explosion of a letter bomb sent to Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, 1895. Artist: F Meaulle
Explosion of a letter bomb sent to Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, 1895. In August 1895 the chief clerk of Rothschild Freres bank was seriously injured when he opened a latter bomb intended to

Roman relief of a ship unloading amphorae, with tally-clerks on the quay-side

Scene from Shakespeares Much Ado about Nothing, 1856-1858. William Shakespeares comedy Much Ado about Nothing was first performed c1598

Merchant and his clerk at the dockside checking goods at a warehouse, 1823. From The Book of English Trades. (London, 1823)

Assembly of the Provostship of the Merchants of Paris, 1528. Dignitaries sit on an elevated bench while the Secretary and his Clerk put the business of the meeting before them

Roman relief of a ship, with amphorae being unloaded, overseen by Tally-Clerks by the quayside

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