Explaining Collection

"Face to Face": Effie Blount's Explanation, 1862. Creator: Unknown
"Face to Face": Effie Blount's Explanation, 1862. Illustration to a short story by John Saunderss. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

King Geo. studies trench bombs, 7 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
King Geo. studies trench bombs, 7 Jul 1917. British officers explaining trench mortar to King George V and Edward, Prince of Wales at the Trench Warfare School, Helfaut, France during World War I

Afflicted with the Jim-Jams, 1872. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Afflicted with the Jim-Jams, 1872. A street-car passenger tries to befuddle the ticket collector with nonsensical conversation

Une autre fois je fis encore un bon tour.. 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier
Une autre fois je fis encore un bon tour.. 1838. Robert Macaire explains how he swindles money out of gullible investors. Une autre fois je fis encore un bon tour...j'avais cree une societe au

Costumes de Différents Pays, Paysanne de Schwatzenbourgenghusse, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Paysanne de Schwatzenbourgenghusse, c1797

Saint Catherine Converting the Scholars, c1480. Creator: Unknown
Saint Catherine Converting the Scholars, c1480. Catherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in medieval western Europe

Marriage of Ubayd (recto)... c1580. Creator: Unknown
Marriage of Ubayd (recto). Folio from a Tutinama (image 2 of 2), c1580

Joseph explains the dreams of the baker and the cupbearer, 1700-1799. Creator: Anon
Joseph explains the dreams of the baker and the cupbearer, 1700-1799

The Drawing Lesson, 1808. Creator: Louis Moritz
The Drawing Lesson, 1808

The Music Lesson, 1808. Creator: Louis Moritz
The Music Lesson, 1808

Doctor's Visit, 1750-1760. Creator: Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh
Doctor's Visit, 1750-1760

Venus and Mars, 1628. Creator: Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem
Venus and Mars, 1628

Italian Girls with Tomatoes in Baskets; Fruit Bearers from Amalfi, 1878-79, 1878-1879. Creator: Kristian Zahrtmann
Italian Girls with Tomatoes in Baskets; Fruit Bearers from Amalfi, 1878-79, 1878-1879

Elizabeth Duncan dancers and children, 1928 Creator: Arnold Genthe
Elizabeth Duncan dancers and children, 1928

A pause for instruction from film producer Anthony Asquith, Twickenham, London, c1932. During the making of the Gainsborough Pictures film, The Lucky Number

The Pearl of Great Price, c1916, (1936). Creator: Eugene Burnand
The Pearl of Great Price, c1916, (1936). Parable of the Pearl (also the Pearl of Great Price) Matthew 13:45-46 illustrates the value of the Kingdom of Heaven

Christopher Columbus before the Council at Salamanca, Spain, 1487. Columbus (1451-1506) making an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the council appointed by King Ferdinand II of Spain to fund his

Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities, (1899?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities, (1899?)

Washington, D.C. Public Schools- classroom scenes and school activities, (1899?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Washington, D.C. Public Schools- classroom scenes and school activities, (1899?)

Students at Washington High School at class, training... to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif
Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. Ralph Angar, instructor

Upon the Mart, 1870 / 91. Creator: Charles Samuel Keene
Upon the Mart, 1870/91

Matthew, 1539. Creator: Heinrich Aldegrever
Matthew, 1539

Portrait of Edwin Yates, 19th century. Creator: William Thomas Roden
Portrait of Edwin Yates, 19th century. Edwin Yates was Mayor of Birmingham in 1865

Child Jesus Explaining the Scriptures to His Mother and St. Joseph, ca. 1627

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV, April 1, 1745. Creator: Simon Francois Ravenet
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV, April 1, 1745. After William Hogarth

Joseph explains his dream to his brothers and father in an interior setting; the sun, moon, and stars above a landscape in the portal beyond, from the series The Story of Joseph, 1544

Canute Reproving the Flattery of his Courtiers, c1890. Creator: Unknown
Canute Reproving the Flattery of his Courtiers, c1890. King Canute (c995-1035), explaining his humanity, the sea would not obey him. From " Cassells Illustrated History of England"

Portrait of Count Zinzendorf in a preachers robe, c1740, (1937). Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Count Zinzendorf in a preachers robe, c1740, (1937). Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700-1760), German solcial reformer

Theatre Municipal De La Gaite - La Montansier - Mme. Rejane. Saint-Phar: M. Coquelin Aine, 1904
Theatre Municipal De La Gaite - La Montansier - La Montansier: Mme. Rejane. Saint-Phar: M. Coquelin Aine, 1904. Gabrielle Rejane (1856-1920)

Scenes in London, c1830. No 25: two men at table, one smoking a pipe, the other a cheroot. No 26: a man ordering a meagre meal. No 27: a small Bluecoat boy challenges a large schoolfellow

Humours of the Fleet Prison, 1749. Showing the Keeper of the Prison and new prisoners in the vicinity of the tennis ground while a game is in progress

Drivers at the JCC 200 Mile Race, Brooklands, Surrey, 1921. Artist: Bill Brunell
Place: Brooklands. J.C.C. 200-mile Race. Date: 22.10.21

Daniel interprets the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, 1916. Artist: Evelyn Paul
Daniel interprets the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, 1916. Nebuchadnezzar II (c630-562 BC), ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty, is mentioned in the Book of Daniel

Marketing strategy meeting, Danish Bacon Company, Wilsic, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1961. In an effort to boost sales of their products

New metric system of selling bacon, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966. A customer look bewildered as the new metric sytem is explained to her at Cranshaws Store in Stocksbridge

The new metric system of buying food, Stocksbridge, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966. A mother and two children have the new metric sytem explained to them at a tradittional butchers shop in

Danish Bacon May Fare shop display, Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist
Danish Bacon May Fare shop display, Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, 1964. A shopkeeper in the South Yorkshire town of Wath upon Dearne explains the May offer from Danish Bacon

Students training at the Park Gate Iron & Steel Co, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. A group of mechanical engineering students receiving training

A miner from Sunderland gets some ringside boxing advise, Newcastle, 1964. Artist
A miner from Sunderland gets some ringside boxing advice, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, 1964. A miner from Horden Colliery receives some advice before stepping into the boxing ring in this photograph

Meat dressing at the Danish Bacon Co, Kilnhurst, South Yorkshire, 1957
Meat dressing at the Danish Bacon Company, Kilnhurst, South Yorkshire, 1957. The meat dressing area of Danish Bacons new Kilnhurst depot

Fulton Explains His Submarine to Napoleon, c1925. Artist: Arthur Percy Dixon
Fulton Explains His Submarine to Napoleon, c1925. Robert Fulton, (1765-1815), American engineer and inventor. From Cassells Romance of Famous Lives, Volume 1 by Harold Wheeler

Disciples at Emmaus, c1905, (1912). Artist: Eugene Alexis Girardet
Disciples at Emmaus, c1905, (1912). From Bibbys Annual 1912, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1912]

I Could Not Learn My Book Mama, c1810. Artist: Adam Buck
I Could Not Learn My Book Mama, c1810, (1921). From The Connoisseur Vol LIX, [Otto Limited, London, 1921]

An instructor explaining engine details to a pupils at Sealand Aerodrome, Flintshire, c1936 (c1937)
An instructor explaining engine details to a group of pupils at the Service Flying Training School at Sealand Aerodrome, Flintshire, Wales, c1936 (c1937). From Wonders of World Aviation, Vol

A lecture on instrument flying at the Central Flying School at Upavon, Wiltshire, c1936 (c1937)
A lecture on instrument flying in progress at the Central Flying School at Upavon, Wiltshire, c1936 (c1937). The diagrams on the board represent turn indicators. From Wonders of World Aviation, Vol

Colombus in Rabida, (15th century), 1920s
Colombus at la Rabida. Colombus explained his plans to the Friar Juan Perez, who had been confessor of Elizabeth the Catholic, obtaining a letter of presentation to the Queen

A veterinary demonstration, 1st Life Guards, 1896. Artist: Gregory & Co
A veterinary demonstration, 1st Life Guards, 1896. Farrier Wallace of the 1st Life Guards, showing the skull of a horse, in the presence of an officer of the same regiment

Photographer and child, c19th century

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