Encouragement Collection

How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross on September 25, 1915, (c1920). Creator
How Piper Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross on September 25, 1915, (c1920). Playing the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borderers out of their trenches at the Battle of Loos in the midst of the gas attack

Dorando Pietri finishing the first modern Olympic marathon, London, 1908. The marathon at the London Olympics of 1908 was run in ususually hot conditions

Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). Artist: As Forrest
Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). The British Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) of the Iceni encourages her soldiers to fight the Romans

Kilties enter 71st Regt. Armory, July 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Kilties enter 71st Regt. Armory, July 1917. Canadian Highlander soldiers (Kilties) entering the 71st Regiment Armory, Park Avenue (between East 33rd and 4th streets), New York City

Kilties in New York, July 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Kilties in New York, July 1917. Canadian Highlander soldiers and band marching in New York City. The Highlander regiments were in the United States in July of 1917 for "British Recruiting

The Geisha Umekichi Imploring Nakajima Seibi to Part from Her and Return to His Studies, 1875. Series: The Postal News, No. 463

The Geisha Umekichi Imploring Nakajima Seibi to Leave Her and Return to His Studies, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Geisha Umekichi Imploring Nakajima Seibi to Leave Her and Return to His Studies, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 463

The Osaka Youth Who Regained His Speech after His Father's Death, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Osaka Youth Who Regained His Speech after His Father's Death, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 651

Mother and Child, 1898. Creator: Ogata Gekko
Mother and Child, Late 1898. From Customs of Women. New Year's Shrine Visit

The Emergence of Kaushiki, Folio from a Devimahatmya (Glory of the Goddess), c1750 or earlier. Creator: Unknown
The Emergence of Kaushiki, Folio from a Devimahatmya (Glory of the Goddess), c1750 or earlier

Drinking Bout in a Tavern, c.1700. Creator: Unknown
Drinking Bout in a Tavern, c.1700

A Roman street scene; Two Italian women with their children, 1833. Creator: Albert Kuchler
A Roman street scene; Two Italian women with their children, 1833

Step this Way, New York, 1938. Creator: Unknown
Step this Way, New York, 1938. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

Portrait of Leonard Bernstein, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. 1946. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Leonard Bernstein, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y. 1946

Williams shaving soap: The leader through 20 administrations, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Williams shaving soap: The leader through 20 administrations, 1901. Advertisement for Williams shaving soap showing head-and-shoulder portraits of Martin Van Buren and William McKinley

Benvenuto Cellini, 16th century artist, admiring products of modern art: Fabrics: Sketch... 1880
Benvenuto Cellini, 16th century artist, admiring products of modern art: Fabrics: Sketch for the drawing room at the school in rue Dombasle, 15th arrondissement of Paris, 1880

First bath, c1907. Creator: Paul Chabas
First bath, c1907

La musique (music party), 1874. Creator: Mary Cassatt
La musique (music party), 1874

Trois baigneuses, between 1865 and 1869. Creator: Gustave Courbet
Trois baigneuses, between 1865 and 1869

Elsie Dufour dancers, between 1918 and 1920? Creator: Arnold Genthe
Elsie Dufour dancers, between 1918 and 1920?

Elsie Dufour dancers, between 1918 and 1920? Creator: Arnold Genthe
Elsie Dufour dancers, between 1918 and 1920?

Elizabeth Duncan dancers and children, 1929 Creator: Arnold Genthe
Elizabeth Duncan dancers and children, 1929

Elizabeth Duncan dancers and children, 1916 Creator: Arnold Genthe
Elizabeth Duncan dancers and children, 1916

Draw children, to later support the industrial honour of the French Republic: Sketch for... 1879
Draw children, to later support the industrial honour of the French Republic: Sketch for the drawing room of the boys school in rue Dombasle, 15th arrondissement of Paris, 1879

Allegory of the Revolution of 1789, 1796. Creators: Nicolas Raguenet, Jacques Wilbaut
Allegory of the Revolution of 1789, 1796

Proclamation to the army, 13 October 1805, (1921). Creator: Unknown
Proclamation to the army, 13 October 1805, (1921). Proclamation a l armee. Address by the Emperor Napoleon to his troops at Pfaffenhofen in Germany

Good Taste, published September 15, 1895. Creator: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Good Taste, published September 15, 1895

Inlaid Spur, c. 1937. Creator: Rose Campbell-Gerke
Inlaid Spur, c. 1937

Spur and Rowel, 1935 / 1942. Creator: Rose Campbell-Gerke
Spur and Rowel, 1935/1942

Spur, c. 1940. Creator: Rose Campbell-Gerke
Spur, c. 1940

Pipe Dance, Assiniboine, 1835-1837. Creator: George Catlin
Pipe Dance, Assiniboine, 1835-1837

Blessed Art Thou Among Women, c. 1900. Creator: Gertrude Kasebier
Blessed Art Thou Among Women, c.1900

Two Women and Two Cupids, published ca. 1599-1622. Creator: Unknown
Two Women and Two Cupids, published ca. 1599-1622. After Battista Franco. Formerly attributed to Enea Vico

Haydn praised the composition highly, (1907). Creator: Unknown
Haydn praised the composition highly, (1907). In 1792, the celebrated Austrian composer Haydn was to pass through Bonn on his way to Vienna from London

Boadicea, 1873. Creator: Unknown
Boadicea, mid-late 19th century. Boudicca encourages her warriors from a chariot with blades on the wheels. The Roman army is gathered near a stone circle in the distance

Proclamation To my people, 17 March 1813, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Proclamation " To my people", 17 March 1813, (1936). Aufruf " An Mein Volk", 17 Marz 1813. The proclamation was issued by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (1770-1840)

The Capuchin friar Joachim Haspinger, (1936). Creator: Unknown
The Capuchin friar Joachim Haspinger, (1936). Der Kapuzinermonch Joachim Haspinger. Johann Simon (Joachim) Haspinger (1776-1858) was a priest and a leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion

Frederick the Great makes a speech... on the eve of the Battle of Leuthen, 5 December 1757, (1936)
Frederick the Great makes a speech to his generals on the eve of the Battle of Leuthen, 5 December 1757, (1936). Ansprache Friedrichs Des Grossen An Seine Generale Am Abend Vor Der Schlacht Bei

Up, Guards and at them!, 1899. Creator: Richard Caton Woodville II
Up Guards and at them!, 1899. Drummer-boy leading a charge of British soldiers, scene based on a quote by the Duke of Wellington: Up, Guards, and at them again

Nelsons Column with National Service recruitment poster, London, 1939. The poster on the base of the column claims National Service - its up to YOU. St Martin-in-the-Fields is in the background, left

Adoration of the Magi - Angels behind the Virgin, c1481 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Adoration of the Magi - Angels behind the Virgin, c1481 (1945). The painting is held by the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Taken in Tow - A Scene on a Rope walk, 1829. Artist: George Cruikshank
Taken in Tow - A Scene on a Rope walk, 1829. From Scraps & Sketches by George Cruikshank. [George Cruikshank, London, 1829]

Death the Wooer, c1895, (1923). Artist: Alphonse Legros
Death the Wooer, c1895, (1923). From The Studio Volume 84. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1923]

Provoking Fidelity L education de petit chien, 1775. Artist: Louis Marin Bonnet
Provoking Fidelity L education de petit chien, 1775. From The Connoisseur Volume XLII. [The Connoisseur Ltd. London, 1915]

Angelica Kauffmann in the Character of Design listening to the Inspiration of Poetry, 1782, (1921)
Angelica Kauffmann in the Character of Design listening to the Inspiration of Poetry, 1782. By Thomas Burke (1749-1815) after a work by Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807)

The Elopement: Laetitia (Lydia) seduced from her Friends under a promise of Marriage, 1789), 1925
The Elopement: Laetitia (Lydia) seduced from her Friends under a promise of Marriage, 1789. Plate 2 of The Laetitia Series

Tug-of-war at the Mill Hill Junior School sports day, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

The Fall on the Road to Calvary, c1820s. Artist: W Holl
The Fall on the Road to Calvary, c1820s

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