Bystander Collection (#2)

St. Tropez, (oil on canvas)
657448 St. Tropez, (oil on canvas) by Hankey, William Lee (1869-1952); Private Collection; (add.info.: St.Tropez. William Lee Hankey (1869-1952). Oil on canvas

The Harbour, St Ives, (oil on canvas)
657970 The Harbour, St Ives, (oil on canvas) by Hankey, William Lee (1869-1952); 58x71 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The Harbour, St Ives. William Lee Hankey (1869-1952). Oil on canvas

Piccadilly and Hatchetts Hotel, London, c. 1887 (albumen print)
1769880 Piccadilly and Hatchetts Hotel, London, c.1887 (albumen print) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Piccadilly and Hatchetts Hotel, London)

Viaduct across the Sankey Valley, 1831 (colour aquatints, partly hand-coloured)
1198423 Viaduct across the Sankey Valley, 1831 (colour aquatints, partly hand-coloured) by Bury, Thomas Talbot (1811-77) (after); 26.5x66 cm; Private Collection; Photo eChristies Images; English

A Parisian Flower Market, (oil on canvas)
989521 A Parisian Flower Market, (oil on canvas) by Gilbert, Victor Gabriel (1847-1933); 137.5x46.3 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Parisian Flower Market. Victor Gabriel Gilbert (1847-1933)

Bystander Royal Wedding Number front cover - George VI
Front cover of The Bystander magazines Royal Wedding Number, celebrating the marriage of Prince Albert of York (the future King George VI) to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923

Bystander cover 1929 - the Ruthven Twins
Portrait of the society twin sisters, Alison and Margaret Hore-Ruthven, daughters of Lord and Lady Ruthven. Alison (left) was married in 1929 to John Leighton Barran

Natasha Parry on Tatler cover 1957
Actress Natasha Parry, wife of director Peter Brook, featured on the front cover of The Tatler and Bystander magazine, 20 November 1957

Obviously! by Bairnsfather
Obviously! The young and talkative one: " What made that ole!" The fed-up one: " mice" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1915

Bystander Silver Jubilee Number 1935
Front cover of a special Bystander number marking the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935

Bystander cover, Summer Number 1935
Gloriously colourful front cover of The Bystanders Summer Number featuring an athletic lady tennis playing enjoying a match on a suburban court

Mr and Mrs Norman Parkinson Smith
Norman Parkinson (1913 - 1990), British portrait and fashion photographer pictured with his first wife Peggy Mitchell Banks shortly after their marriage in 1935

The Man Who Bid Half-A-Guinea At Tattersall s, by H. M. Bat
A humorous illustration showing a man who has caused havoc at the races. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander

The Girl In The Cabaret by Suzanne Meunier
A colour illustration of an elegantly dressed lady finishing off the last of her champagne. Suzanne Meunier was a French artist who produced a number of erotic illustrations for The Sketch

The Latest Spelling Test by William Heath Robinson
A desperate effort to instil good luck into a five-franc plaque before returning to the Casino. Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944)

Beside the Old Church Gate Farm, Smarden, Kent (watercolour with scratching out)
1766697 Beside the Old Church Gate Farm, Smarden, Kent (watercolour with scratching out) by Allingham, Helen (1848-1926); 24.5x32.8 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

The Running Well Teahouse, Otsu, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (colour woodblock print)
1766548 The Running Well Teahouse, Otsu, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (colour woodblock print) by Hiroshige

A Parisian; Une Parisienne, (oil on canvas)
827434 A Parisian; Une Parisienne, (oil on canvas) by Beraud, Jean (1849-1935); 36.8x26.7 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Parisian; Une Parisienne. Jean Beraud (1849-1935). Oil on canvas

Bystander cover - Mrs Ronald Armstrong-Jones
Mrs Ronald Armstrong-Jones, formerly Anne Messel (later Parsons). She was married to Ronald Armstrong-Jones, with whom she had a daughter and a son, before she married Michael Parsons

Bystander cover, Lady Veronica Blackwood by Madame Yevonde
Lady Veronica Brenda Woolfe (nÚÑáBlackwood) (1910-1971), Former wife of Sir Antony Hornby and of Ernest Maddick and of Thomas Hussey

The James Caird, Dudley Docker and Stancomb Wills Moored to the Ice-floe in the Weddell
828383 The James Caird, Dudley Docker and Stancomb Wills Moored to the Ice-floe in the Weddell Sea, April 1916, 1916 (oil on canvas) by Marston

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, (pencil and watercolour)
824154 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, (pencil and watercolour) by Turner, William (Turner of Oxford) (1789-1862); 22.3x33.4 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

The Garden at Eragny in Spring, 1894 (oil on canvas)
988637 The Garden at Eragny in Spring, 1894 (oil on canvas) by Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903); 54x65 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Bystander front cover featuring Miss Marjorie Leigh
Front cover of The Bystander featuring a colour photograph by Raphael of Miss Marjorie Leigh, debutante daughter of Sir John Leigh Bt. M.P. and Lady Leigh

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, No possible doubt whatever
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, No possible doubt whatever, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

The Intelligence Department, by Bairnsfather
The Intelligence Department " Is this ere the Warwicks?" " Nao, Indenburgs blinkin Light Infantry" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Front cover from The Bystander 1936
A colourful cover of an aeroplane flying over the coast. As aviation increased during the 1930s, the Bystander published a Flying Number each year

His Fatal Beauty, by Bairnsfather
His Fatal Beauty OLD BILL: " My wife married me for love, ye know, Bert" BERT (after prolonged and somewhat pained scrutiny of Bills face): " I had been wonderin what it was, Bill

Bystander front cover, A Bank Balance by Rick Elmes
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring an illustration of a young woman in a white hat and dress, languidly smoking using a long, elegant cigarette holder as she perches on a grassy bank

Bystander front cover - Marchioness of Queensberry
Cathleen Mann (1896-1959), Artist; second wife of Francis A. Kelhead, 11th Marquess of Queensbury; daughter of Harrington Mann

The One Pound Look by Ricardo Brook
Front cover of The Bystander special issue focusing on the fall in the value of the pound during the first half of 1920. Here a rather aristocratic looking gentleman is fashioned out of a pound sign

That Evening Star-Shell, by Bruce Bairnsfather
Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam Fall on my spirits troubled dream. Originally an amateur artist, Bairnsfathers cockney humour displayed in his view of the Front

The Bystander masthead by Tony Castle, 1930
Bystander masthead design by Tony Castle featuring a number of beauties on a beach dressed in bathing suits, sun hats and holding parasols

The Bystander Riviera Number 1923
The front cover of The Bystander Riviera Number. A colour illustration showing a glamorous couple stood overlooking a moonlit Monte Carlo

Christ bearing the Cross, 1477. Creator: Derick Baegert
Christ bearing the Cross, 1477.

The Death of Hyacinthus, 1752. Creators: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Ovid
The Death of Hyacinthus, 1752.

Christ on the route to Calvary, unknown date, (c1730). Creators: Workshop of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Christ on the route to Calvary, unknown date, (c1730).

Cooling his head - N.Y. on hot day, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Cooling his head - N.Y. on hot day, between c1910 and c1915.

Taft's Auto leaving N.Y. Public Library, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Taft's Auto leaving N.Y. Public Library, between c1910 and c1915.

Secy Stimson & Gen. Grant at lawn party, Gov's Island., 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Secy Stimson & Gen. Grant at lawn party, Gov's Island., 1911. Shows General Frederick Dent Grant, commanding officer on Governors Island, with Secretary of War Henry I

4th of July Parade, N.Y., 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
4th of July Parade, N.Y., 1911.

N.Y. troops (war game), between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
N.Y. troops (war game), between c1910 and c1915.

N.Y. troops (war game), between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
N.Y. troops (war game), between c1910 and c1915.

Viewers racecourse in the Cascine Park: Count Fabbricotti with his wife, Roberto Strozzi, Alberto Bignano
3569905 Viewers racecourse in the Cascine Park: Count Fabbricotti with his wife, Roberto Strozzi, Alberto Bignano by Levi, Giorgio Enrico (19th-20th century) (attr.to); (add.info.: Cascine Park)

Old football with the kicking of the four of Florence Historic districts in Renaissance costumes in the presence of
3569958 Old football with the kicking of the four of Florence Historic districts in Renaissance costumes in the presence of King Umberto I and his wife

Procession of Old football with the kicking of the four of Florence Historic districts in Renaissance costumes in
3569942 Procession of Old football with the kicking of the four of Florence Historic districts in Renaissance costumes in the presence of King Umberto I and his wife

Spectators in the stands control the outcome of a race racecourse the Cascine Park: J
3569903 Spectators in the stands control the outcome of a race racecourse the Cascine Park: J. Halphon, Miss Serjeaf, Brindisi duchess, Rohorn duchess, Countess Della Gherardesca

Viewers racecourse in the Cascine Park: Mrs. Evelina Douglas Galton-Fenzi, George Mackay, Mrs. Edwards
3569902 Viewers racecourse in the Cascine Park: Mrs. Evelina Douglas Galton-Fenzi, George Mackay, Mrs. Edwards by Levi, Giorgio Enrico (19th-20th century) (attr.to); (add.info.: Cascine Park)

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"Bystander: A Glimpse into the Quirky and Whimsical World of Art and Satire" Step into the enchanting world of "Bystander, " where art meets satire in a delightful blend. From the imaginative mind of William Heath Robinson, we are introduced to his whimsical creations such as "The Kinecar" - a fantastical contraption that defies all logic, or his comical depiction of a gardener attempting to extract a weed from a perfectly manicured lawn in "A Garden Guide. " But it doesn't stop there; on the cover of Bystander's 1929 edition, we witness an unexpected sight - a boxing woman in training. This captivating image challenges societal norms and showcases women breaking barriers even during those times. In another masterpiece by William Heath Robinson, titled "Playtime at Wimbledon, " we find ourselves immersed in the playful spirit of tennis enthusiasts who take their game to extraordinary heights with ingenious contraptions. And what about celebrations? The Wedding Feast depicted by Robinson is nothing short of extravagant hilarity. It reminds us that even amidst formalities, laughter can be found. Bruce Bairnsfather adds his touch with six postcards that capture moments both humorous and poignant. His work reflects the resilience and camaraderie among soldiers during challenging times like war. The front cover design itself speaks volumes about Bystander's essence - bold yet elegant, inviting readers into its pages filled with artistic marvels. Moving beyond illustrations, it also brings forth significant historical milestones like Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs' release in the UK back in 1938. This iconic Disney film forever changed animation history. Advertisements for The Graphic showcase how Bystander was not just limited to its own realm but embraced collaborations within its industry. These ads highlight other publications while still maintaining their unique charm. Even masthead designs were given careful thought.