Annual Collection (#5)

A Pictorial: the Word, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A Pictorial: the Word, 1864. Christmas entertainment. From "Illustrated London News", 1864

"Allhallow-Eve" - a sketch in Kilkenny by Edmund Fitzpatrick, 1858. Creator: Unknown
"Allhallow-Eve" - a sketch in Kilkenny by Edmund Fitzpatrick, 1858. Allhallow-eve (1st of November)...is the night of all others on which the Irish peasantry believe that ghosts, witches

Harvest Home - drawn by Godwin, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Harvest Home - drawn by Godwin, 1858. English farm workers celebrating the gathering in of the crops. From "Illustrated London News", 1858

Sketches at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, 1876. Creator: C.R
Sketches at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, 1876. Annual rowing race on the River Thames in London. The Crews Returning; Off Chiswick Eyot; Clearing the Course

The Queen Opening Parliament: Procession in the Peers Corridor, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Queen Opening Parliament: Procession in the Peers Corridor, 1876. Queen Victoria...accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales

Sumida River, 1897. Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
Sumida River, 1897. Series: Sketches of Famous Places in Japan

Koganei, Cherry Blossoms, 1896. Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
Koganei, Cherry Blossoms, 1896. Series: Sketches of Famous Places in Japan

Au nouvel an, visite obligée à la tante Rabourdin, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Au nouvel an, visite obligee a la tante Rabourdin, 1847. Obligatory New Year visit to Aunt Rabourdin - bored children look on as their mother greets a female relative. Series: Les Bons bourgeois, no

Au nouvel an, visite obligée à la tante Rabourdin, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
Au nouvel an, visite obligee a la tante Rabourdin, 1847. Obligatory New Year visit to Aunt Rabourdin - bored children look on as their mother greets a female relative. From Les Bons bourgeois, no. 46

Gorteria Diffusa, 1777-1786. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon
Gorteria Diffusa, 1777-1786

Chenopodium foliosum Aschers, formerly Blitum vergatum (Leafy goosefoot), 1778-1786. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon
Chenopodium foliosum Aschers, formerly Blitum vergatum (Leafy goosefoot), 1778-1786

The Twelfth-Night Wassail-Bowl, 1856. Creator: Sir John Gilbert
The Twelfth-Night Wassail-Bowl, 1856. 17th century scene: peasants visiting the lord and lady of the manor at Christmas....the bowl was filled with spiced wine

Peasant Fair, c.1665. Creator: David Teniers II
Peasant Fair, c.1665. Other Title(s): St George's Day Kermis. Country folk talking, eating and drinking, dancing to the bagpipes, falling over drunk (bottom left)

The St Martin's Day Kermis, c.1540-c.1598. Creator: Peeter Baltens
The St Martin's Day Kermis, c.1540-c.1598. Religious festival: a rowdy mob crowds around a cask of wine. On the right, Saint Martin cuts his cloak in half to clothe a beggar

Country Kermis, 1680-1704. Creator: Cornelis Dusart
Country Kermis, 1680-1704. Feast day of St Martin: woman playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing the flute. Note child on hobby-horse

Carnival Races at Rome, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Carnival Races at Rome, 1856. The horses are now at their starting posts, without riders...At the start a rope is placed across the street, the horses being led close up to it

Children jumping rope on the White House lawn during annual Easter egg roll with State, War...1898
Children jumping rope on the White House lawn during annual Easter egg roll with State, War, and Navy Building in background, 1898, printed 1964

The Annual Dance of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, 1927. Creators: Addison N. Scurlock, Unknown
The Annual Dance of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, 1927

New Years Breakfasts, Pan American Union - Unidentified; 2 Ladies And 2 Men, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
New Years Breakfasts, Pan American Union - Unidentified; 2 Ladies And 2 Men, [Washington, DC], 1912

Christmas Trees in Covent Garden Market, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Christmas Trees in Covent Garden Market, 1854. People buying Christmas trees in London. From "Illustrated London News", 1854

Cutting the Ashen Fagots; Devonshire, 1854. Creator: Edmund Evans
Cutting the Ashen Fagots; Devonshire, 1854. Old English Christmas tradition. A faggot (large log or a bundle of ash sticks) is bound with nine green lengths of ash bands or beams

The Christmas Dole, 1854. Creator: M. Jackson
The Christmas Dole, 1854. People gathered in a church for the traditional custom of handing out money to the poor. At the village of Tichborne in Hampshire

Bringing Home the Yule Log, 1854. Creator: M. Jackson
Bringing Home the Yule Log, 1854. Christmas scene - children drag a huge log towards a house with lights in the windows. Burning the Yule Log was a traditional winter custom in in parts of Europe

Meeting of Parliament, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of Parliament, 1854. State opening of the British parliament during the Crimean War....Her Majesty [Queen [Victoria] opened Parliament in person

"The Domum", at Winchester College, 1854. Creator: Unknown. "The Domum", at Winchester College
"The Domum", at Winchester College, 1854. Annual singing of the school song, which dates back to at least 1773, at Winchester College, a private boys school in Hampshire

The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Bringing in Hereford Ox, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Bringing in Hereford Ox, 1850. Agricultural show in London. Amongst the oxen, the competition, as well as the prizes

The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Carting away a Pig, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Carting away a Pig, 1850. Agricultural show in London. The pigs are always a favourite description of stock to the amateur sightseers at cattle shows

Class 4. No. 49. - Prince Albert's Hereford Ox... 1850. Creator: Smyth
The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Class 4. No. 49. - Prince Albert's Hereford Ox - £20 Prize, and Silver Medal; Class 1. No. 16. - Mr

Christmas Eve in Devonshire - the Mummers coming in, 1850. Creators: Stockdale, Smyth
Christmas Eve in Devonshire - the Mummers coming in, 1850. Rural entertainment in Devon. And then entered six or seven youths fantastically bedecked with ribbons, and gay

The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Bringing in Implements, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Bringing in Implements, 1850. Agricultural show in London. Farming machinery on display included: Seed and Manure Drill, a Wheel Plough

Noble woman in a carriage viewing cherry blossoms, c. 1796. Creator: Hosoda Eishi
Noble woman in a carriage viewing cherry blossoms, c. 1796. Detail from a larger artwork

Noble woman in a carriage viewing cherry blossoms, c. 1796. Creator: Hosoda Eishi
Noble woman in a carriage viewing cherry blossoms, c. 1796. Detail from a larger artwork

Noble woman in a carriage viewing cherry blossoms, c. 1796. Creator: Hosoda Eishi
Noble woman in a carriage viewing cherry blossoms, c. 1796. Detail from a larger artwork

The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Bringing in Fat Pig, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Bringing in Fat Pig, 1850. Agricultural show in London. His Royal Highness Prince Albert obtained the second prize for a pen of 38 weeks

Hunting the Wren at Christmas, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Hunting the Wren at Christmas, 1850. Annual tradition during the festive season, where a wren was chased and caught. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

Hunting the Wren at Christmas - Procession of the Wren Bush and Wren Boys, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Hunting the Wren at Christmas - Procession of the Wren Bush and Wren Boys, 1850. Annual tradition during the festive season, where a wren was chased and caught

Hunting the Wren at Christmas - Origin of Hunting the Wren - the Bird Awakening the Danes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Hunting the Wren at Christmas - Origin of Hunting the Wren - the Bird Awakening the Danes, 1850. An annual tradition during the festive season, where a wren was chased and caught

Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" - the Morris Dancers, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" - the Morris Dancers, 1850. Annual tradition: This very ancient festival was celebrated...with more than its usual ceremonies

Class 2. No. 33 - Earl Hardwicke's Ox... 1850. Creator: Smyth
The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Class 2. No. 33 - Earl Hardwicke's Ox - Prize £30, and Silver Medal, 1850. Agricultural show in London

Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" - Sergeants at Mace, Sword Bearer, Crier, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" - Sergeants at Mace, Sword Bearer, Crier, 1850. Annual tradition: This very ancient festival was celebrated...with more than its usual ceremonies

Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" on Whit-Monday - the Procession passing the Statue of Dr. Johnson, 1850. Annual tradition, procession of knights in armour

The Procession near the Corn Exchange, Warwick May Fair Show, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Procession near the Corn Exchange, Warwick May Fair Show, 1850. Partipants in the parade: Queen Elizabeth, attired in a white riding robe, with a regal mantle of purple velvet

Jubilee of St. Sang, at Bruges - the Benediction at the Cathedral, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Jubilee of St. Sang, at Bruges - the Benediction at the Cathedral, 1850. Religious festival in Belgium to honour of the relic of of the Holy Blood

Jubilee of St. Sang, at Bruges - the Procession to the Cathedral, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Jubilee of St. Sang, at Bruges - the Procession to the Cathedral, 1850. Religious festival in Belgium to honour of the relic of of the Holy Blood

Cilla Black and Geoffrey Hughes at St Helens show. Sherdley Park, St Helen, Merseyside. 21st July 1977

The Ivor Novello Awards. Pictured, Peter Gabriel and guest. London, 15th April 1987

The Ivor Novello Awards. Pictured, Freddie Mercury of Queen and Mary Austin. London, 15th April 1987

Damon Albarn, lead singer of the British rock band Blur at the Brit Music Awards at Earls Court. 24th February 1997

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