Desk Collection (#27)

The Lord Chief Baron, 1871. Artist: Coide
The Lord Chief Baron, 1871. A caricature of Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly (1796-1880), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Kelly was appointed solicitor-general in 1845

Public letter writer, Mexico. Artist: CB Waite
Public letter writer, Mexico. Public letter writers earned a living writing letters on behalf of people who were illiterate

Jerome and Jean Charaud, French writers, 1932. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1950, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L Arcade, Paris 8, 1850-1950

Charles Dickens, British novelist, 19th century (1956). Considered one of the English languages greatest writers, Dickens (1812-1870) was the foremost novelist of the Victorian era

Professor Charles Laubry, French cardiologist, 1940. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L Arcade, Paris 8, 1855-1915

Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French explorer, 1910. Charcot (1867-1936) commanded the French Antarctic Expeditions of 1904-1907 and 1908-1910

Escritoire a toilette, French, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1911-1912. Artist: Edwin Foley
Escritoire a toilette, French, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1911-1912. Believed to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette. French transitional Rococo-Louis XVI style

Desk of Louis XV, the Louvre, Paris, 1911-1912. Artist: Edwin Foley
Desk of Louis XV, the Louvre, Paris, 1911-1912. Bureau du Roi Louis XV, cylinder desk in French transitional Louis XV-XVI style

Georges Clemenceau, French statesman, 1925. Clemenceau (1841-1929) served as Prime Minister of France from 1906-1909 and returned to the premiership in 1917 during the First World War

Louis Barthou, French politician, 1931. Barthou (1862-1934) was Prime Minister of France from March to December 1913. A photograph from Album de Photographies

Alexandre Ribot, French statesman, 1916. Ribot (1842-1923) was Prime Minister of France on four occasions (1892-1893, 1895, 1914, 1917)

Goron, 1895. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L Arcade, Paris 8, 1860-1920

Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer, 1890. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris

Jules Massenet, French composer, 1905. Massenet (1842-1912) is best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th century

Jules Lemaitre, French dramatist and critic, 1908. Lemaitres (1853-1914) critical reviews of plays and books were extremely influential

Alexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure, 1900. Duval inheited a chain of cheap restaurants founded by his father, the Bouillons Duval, from which Alexandre got the nickname

Anatole France, French writer, 1903. Anatole France was the pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault (1844-1924). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921

Rene Doumic, French literary critic and man of letters, 1922. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, 8th album, Editions MD, Paris

Victor Hugo, French author, 1872. Born in Besancon, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a central figure in the French Romantic movement

Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Lucay, French politician and author, 1904. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album

Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author, 1890. Flammarion (1842-1925) was the author of more than 50 books on popular science, astronomy and science fiction

Serge Voronoff, Russian-born French surgeon, 1923. Voronoff (1866-1951) became famous for his therapeutic technique of grafting of tissue from monkey testicles onto the testicles of humans in

G Lenotre, French historian and dramatist, 1924. G Lenotre was the pseudonym of French historian and dramatist Theodore Gosselin (1855-1935) A photograph from Album de Photographies

Louis Lepine, French, French lawyer and politician, 1911. Lepine (1846-1933) was appointed Prefect of Police for the departement of Seine in 1892

Flirtation. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Flirtation. Stereoscopic card detail

Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist, 1908. Associated with the neo-Romantic movement, Rostand (1868-1918) is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac, first performed in 1897

Albert de Mun, French politician, 1910. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, 7th album, Editions MD, Paris

Eugene Brieux, French dramatist, 1903. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, 7th album, Editions MD, Paris

Edouard Branly, French physicist, 1900. Branly (1844-1940) was a pioneer of early radio and inventor of the coherer (1892)

Gabriel Hanotaux, French statesman, 1901. Hanotaux (1853-1944) was French Foreign Minister from 1894-1898. His colonial policies in Africa were instrumental in causing the dispute between Britain

The Marquis de Lafayette with George Washington, c1775-1781 (c1880). Lafayette served under Washington in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

Police raid on the National Rent Offices at Loughrea, Ireland, 1887. A scene during the Irish Land League agitation. Founded in 1879, with Charles Stewart Parnell as its president

Joost van den Vondel, 17th century Dutch poet and dramatist, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
Joost van den Vondel, 17th century Dutch poet and dramatist, c1870. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J Van Lenner and J Ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870)

Gysbert Japiks, 17th century Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
Gysbert Japiks, 17th century Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor, c1870. Japiks was a prominent supporter of the Frisian language

Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist, anthropologist and a naturalist, c1870. Artist: H Sluyter
Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist, anthropologist and a naturalist, c1870. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J van Lenner and J ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870)

David Copperfield and Uriah Heep, 1912. Artist: Frederick Barnard
Scene from David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. A print from The Bookman, February 1912

Schoolroom, Uppingham, Rutland, 1924-1926. Artist: Valentine & Sons Ltd
Schoolroom, Uppingham, Rutland, 1924-1926. Uppingham School was founded in 1584 by Archdeacon Robert Johnson. A photo from Hutchinsons Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, Volume 4

Schoolboys in a drawing lesson, Germany, 1922. Artist: Photothek, Berlin
Schoolboys in a drawing lesson, Germany, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume IV: Georgia to Italy

Our Own Times, 1846. From Pictorial Times (1846)

Open air class in Lincolns Inn Fields, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

Advertisement for Maple & Co of London, sellers of antique furniture, 1901. Illustration from The Connoisseur, (November 1901)

Advertisement for the Yost typewriter, 1901. Artist: Glover
Advertisement for the Yost typewriter, 1901. Illustration from The Connoisseur, (November 1901)

Painter of popular pictures, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman
Painter of popular pictures, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 16th century wood engraving

Wood engraver, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman
Wood engraver, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 16th century wood engraving. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Sere and A Rivaud

Draughtsman, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman
Draughtsman, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 16th century wood engraving. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Sere and A Rivaud

Leiden University public library, Leiden (Leyden), 1614 (1849)
Leiden University public library, Leiden (Leyden), Netherlands, 1614 (1849). Leiden University was founded in 1575 by Prince William of Orange

Room at Flete, c1882

Petrus Aegidius, (1927). Artist: Quentin Metsys I
Petrus Aegidius, (1927). A print from Flemish and Belgian art 1300-1900, The Exhibition organised by the Anglo-Belgian Union at Burlington House, London

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