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Duck-Shooting on Saratoga Lake, 1973, (1883). Artist: Matthew Somerville Morgan

Duck-Shooting on Saratoga Lake, 1873, (1883). From America Illustrated, edited by J. David Williams. [DeWolfe, Fiske & Company, Boston, 1883]

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Rifle range at a fairground, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham

Rifle range at a fairground, c1950. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952. The writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was one of her tutors, and her style of drawing was also influenced by other British illustrators such as Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake and Edward Bawden. Markham spent time in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy, and also visited Rome, sketching classical buildings. After graduating from Central, she worked as a graphic designer, producing book illustrations, cartoons for comics, menus and programmes. She gave up her promising career however when she got married in 1957. Middle-class women at that time were expected to devote their energies to bringing up children and running the home, and despite her obvious talent, she lacked the confidence to return to illustration. Her portfolio remained in the family attic for many years, but now her work is published here for the first time

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Day of 13 Vendemiaire of the Year 4, 1797, (1921). Creator: Isidore-Stanislas Helman

Day of 13 Vendemiaire of the Year 4, 1797, (1921). Journee du XIII Vendemiaire, l'an IV'. Depiction of events on 5 October 1795: royalist-influenced sections of Paris revolted to prevent the adoption of a new constitution that protected the position of the radicals. The willingness of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) to fire cannons on the demonstrators - in his words, to give them a whiff of grapeshot - consolidated the government's control. Engraving by Isidore-Stanislas Helman after Charles Monnet. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot. [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]

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