Finance Collection (#69)

Alms, c1870-c1875. Artist: Andrei Osipovich Karelin
Alms, c1870-c1875. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Banking Premises at Aden, 8 January 1887. Artist: C Kell
Banking Premises at Aden, 8 January 1887. Hand-coloured later

Delivered by death!, 1896. Artist: Frederic Lix
Delivered by death!, 1896. A soldier delivered by Death from a crowd of men pursuing him for money. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 26th January 1896

In Egypt: The Reserves of the Debt Going up in Smoke, 1896. Artist: Henri Meyer
In Egypt: The Reserves of the Debt Going up in Smoke, 1896. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 14th June 1896

Hova money changers, Madagascar, late 19th century. Artist: Gillot
Hova money changers, Madagascar, late 19th century. Illustration from Island of Madagascar, sites, manners and costumes, (Paris)

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

Custom House, Dublin, Ireland, late 19th century. Artist: John L Stoddard
Custom House, Dublin, Ireland, late 19th century. Photograph from Portfolio of Photographs, of Famous Scenes, Cities and Paintings by John L Stoddard, published by the Werner Company, (Chicago, c1899)

Dr Syntax Loses his Money at the Race Ground at York, 1813. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr Syntax Loses his Money at the Race Ground at York, 1813

Letter from Michelangelo Buonarroti to his father, June 1508. Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Letter from Michelangelo Buonarroti to his father, June 1508. Letter written from Rome, in Italian, from Michelangelo to his father, Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarotti di Simoni, at Florence

Wall Street, New York, 1869. Wall Street markets crash on Black Friday, 1869. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York)

Queen Elizabeth I medal, 16th century, (1896). Illustration after the original in the British Museum, London, from a work published by Boussod, Valadon & Co, (1896)

Elizabethan coins, (1896). Coins from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Illustration after the originals in the British Museum, London, from a work published by Boussod, Valadon & Co, (1896)

Bank of England, London, 20th Century. The Bank of England was established in 1694 to act as banker and debt manager for the government

The Royal Exchange, London, 20th Century. The Royal Exchange was established by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1566, with the aim of making London main European market-place

Colbert, 1774. Artist: J Collyer
Colbert, 1774. Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (1619-1683), Louis XIVs Chief Minister. He was responsible for reforming the chaotic financial administration

Currency, minting and cheking the gold coins, c1900. French advertising for Liebig Extract of Meat. Private Collection

Feather money, brought to Forrests house at Nelua, 1892. Price of girl bought as teachers wife. A view showing A E C Forrest, a European lay worker

A representation of July, 1757. Artist: Bernard de Montfaucon
A representation of July, 1757. A naked man holding a money purse. A plate from Supplement au livre de L antiquite expliquee et representee en figures, Paris, 1757. Private Collection

Money, Kerkouane, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. Kerkouane was a Punic city in north-eastern Tunisia. It was abandoned c250 BC during the First Punic War and was never rebuilt by the Romans

Pharaoh Seti, Capture of Slaves, Luxor, Egypt

Coin of Ptolemy I and Berenice I, Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, 3rd century BC
Coin of Ptolemy I and Berenice I, Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, 3rd century BC. Eight drachma piece. Berenice I was the third wife of Ptolemy I Soter

Comptoir National d Escompte de Paris, French World War I poster, 1918. Artist: Auguste Leroux
Comptoir National d Escompte de Paris, French World War I poster, 1918. Two French women in the costume of Revolution-era France gaze into the distance, one waves her hand

Roman coin, Marc Antony Legionary Denarius, 32-1 BC

The Collector of Tithes, 1618. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Collector of Tithes, 1618. Private collection

Why hide them!, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Why hide them!, 1799. Plate 30 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain The series is evidence of the artists political

Preparation of copper and silver to be alloyed for production of coins, 1683. Copper is melted (1) while an apprentice (9) soaks birch twigs in water

Sous-Inspecteur aux Revues, 1814-17. Artist: Eugene Titeux
Sous-Inspecteur aux Revues, 1814-17. Histoire de la Maison Militaire du Roi de 1814-1830, volume 2

Caricature against the Monarchists, (Okna Rosta), 1920. Artist: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Caricature against the Monarchists, (Okna Rosta), 1920

The Tribute Money, 1560-1568. Artist: Titian
The Tribute Money, 1560-1568. Christ, in a red robe with a blue cloak, is asked by a Pharisee if it is right to pay taxes to the Romans

Kublai Khan paying for purchases, c1280s, (early 15th century). Artist: Master of Boucicaut
Kublai Khan paying for purchases, c1260s, (early 15th century). Marco Polo (1254-1324) Venetian traveller and merchant, left Venice with his father and uncle in 1271

A Propos de la Crise Monetaire, 1871. Artist: Moloch
A Propos de la Crise Monetaire, 1871. Cartoon from a series titled Les Silhouettes de 1871 published at the time of the Paris Commune. From a private collection

Le Sou de la Delivrance caricature and song sheet, Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. Marianne sweeping up coins leaking from a split sack

Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. From the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

Medallion of Alfonso V Aragon, King of Naples and Sicily, 15th century. Artist: Pisanello
Medallion of Alfonso V Aragon, King of Naples and Sicily, 15th century. The inscription reads Venator intrepidus (The intrepid hunter)

Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. In 1911 the British government decided to award a contract to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company to erect state-owned radio stations across the British Empire

George Hudson, the Railway King, 1848. Hudson (1800-1871) was an English railway speculator, ruined during the 1847-1848 railway mania when he was accused of paying dividends out of capital

John Law, Comptroller General of France, 1720 (1841). A Scottish economist, gambler, banker, murderer, royal advisor, exile, rake and adventurer

Assayer testing samples of gold or silver using a balance, 1683. Artist: Lazarus Ercker
Assayer testing samples of gold or silver using a balance, 1683. From English edition of Lazarus Ercker Allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt und Berckwercksarten, originally published in Prague, 1574

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), mathematical physicist, c1979. Medal awarded annually to deserving individuals for outstanding scientific findings, works, or publications related to Albert Einstein

Reverse of medal commemorating 50 years of cinematography by the Lumiere brothers, 1945. August (1862-1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864-1948), French chemists and pioneers of cinematography, 1945

Obverse of medal commemorating 50 years of cinematography by the Lumiere brothers, 1945. August (1862-1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864-1948), French chemists and pioneers of cinematography

Louis Jean Lumiere (1864-1948), pioneer of cinematography, c1935
Louis Jean Lumiere (1864-1948), French chemist and pioneer of cinematography, c1935. Collaborated with his elder brother, Auguste. From obverse of commemorative plaquette

Cutting coin blanks from metal strips, Royal Mint, London, 1897. After being cut, the blanks were then put in a coin stamping press

Milling the edges of coins, Royal Mint, London, 1891. A milled edge meant that metal could not be stolen from the edges of gold and silver coins by clipping, so reducing their intrinsic value

Coining press at the Royal Mint, London, 1891

Melting house at the Paris mint, 1892. Pouring gold into moulds to form standard ingots

Testing the weight of gold pieces, Paris mint, 1892

Canning Dock, Liverpool, showing the Custom House, 1841. Sailing vessels can be seen moored in the basin as well as warehouses on the dockside. Canning Dock opened in 1737

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