Elderly Collection

Mr Frederick Witts with his penny farthing bicycle at his home in Bryncoch, Neath, Wales. 13th August 1966

Peru, An old woman in traditional Indian costume with her round, saucer-shaped hat decorated with fresh flowers

Gypsy Splendour - Laura Knight
Oil on Canvas 101.6 x 76.2

The troll who wonders how old he is, 1911 (w / c on paper)
OVR358711 The troll who wonders how old he is, 1911 (w/c on paper) by Kittelsen, Theodor Severin (1857-1914); Private Collection; Photo © O. Vaering

Pope Francis presides over Easter Holy Mass in St. Peters Square at the Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Walking meditation led by Thich Nhat Hanh, Paris, France, Europe

Shotley Bridge General Hospital, County Durham
Aerial view of Shotley Bridge Hospital, County Durham

Friedrich Engels & Marx
FRIEDRICH ENGELS German political theorist working on Das Kapital with Marx Date: 1820 - 1895

Rainy Street, Manchester
A typical English street on a rainy shopping day: an elderly couple use the zebra crossing

The Old Fisherman, 1903. Artist: Joseph Edward Southall
The Old Fisherman, 1903. From The Studio Volume 79, [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1920]

Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim, 1900
Queen Victoria, Empress of India, listening to a despatch describing the elation of the troops at the services they had rendered to the Queen. Her Indian servant, Munshi Abdul Karim, supports her

NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER, French music teacher
NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER (1887-1979), French music teacher and conductor. Her students included Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Lennox Berkeley, Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein. Date: early 1960s

Claude Monet (1840-1926) and his wife, Alice (1844-1911) St
MMT175169 Claude Monet (1840-1926) and his wife, Alice (1844-1911) St

I Am Still Learning (Aun Aprendo) (charcoal on paper)
BBC193310 I Am Still Learning (Aun Aprendo) (charcoal on paper) by Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de (1746-1828); Prado, Madrid

Pope Francis leaving on his Popemobile after his weekly general audience in St. Peters Square at the Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Simeon in the Temple, c. 1668-1669, by Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). Dutch painter. Simeon in the Temple, c.1668-1669. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Ennui, c1914 (1935). Artist: Walter Richard Sickert
Ennui, c1914 (1935). After the painting by Walter Richard Sickert. From Modern Masterpieces Part 2. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1935.]

Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist. Animals are shown bursting through the side of Darwins head. This could represent Darwins theories of evolution and natural selection

Old Sea Dogs
Artist: Titcomb, William Holt Yates - Title: Old Sea Dogs - Date: 1891 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 157.5 x 121.9

Anthony Trollope / Century
ANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist

Margaret Rutherford September 1963 Actress Pictured at home Gerrards Cross Bucks

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peters Square at the Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

H. H. Dalai Lama in Paris-Bercy, France, Europe
H.H. Dalai Lama in Paris-Bercy, France, Europe

Pantomime Characters, Commedia dell Arte - Clown, Harlequin, Columbine and Pantaloon. 19th century

Kapitsa and Androv, Russian physicists. Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (left, 1894-1984) is listening to a graduate student called Androv (right), who is defending his doctoral thesis

Darby and Joan (oil on canvas)
THA15411 Darby and Joan (oil on canvas) by Sadler, Walter Dendy (1854-1923); 84.5x120.7 cm; Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley, Lancashire; eTowneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum; English

Chef; Le Cuisinier, (oil on canvas)
653335 Chef; Le Cuisinier, (oil on canvas) by Lebasque, Henri (1865-1937); 64.7x54.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Chef; Le Cuisinier. Henri Lebasque (1865-1937). Oil on canvas

Hewenden Viaduct, Yorkshire
Retired farmer Tom Ackroyd mends a dry stone wall on his farm in the Hewenden Valley, near Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. In the distance is the Hewenden Viaduct

Sitting Bear - Arikara, 1908. Artist: John Andrew & Son
Sitting Bear - Arikara, 1908. The Arikara are a semi-nomadic Native American tribe who lived on the plains of South Dakota. Their population was decimated by smallpox in the 1830s

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian gun designer
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (born 1919), Russian gun designer, holding the first-ever AK-47 assault rifle, at an official 60th anniversary event, held in 2007 in Moscow, Russia

Liberal Election Campaign Card, 1909
A Liberal Party campaign card for the 1909 General Election. A grim image of an elderly couple heading for the workhouse is contrasted with the partys vision of sunlit fields of waving corn

Highwood School, Brentwood, Essex
The administration block at Highwood (or High Wood) School, Brentwood, Essex. The school was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for the treatment of ophthalmia in children

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Aerial view of Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex, used for the care of children with tuberculosis

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Children with tuberculosis at Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex. Beds were placed on the balconies to provide sun and fresh air

Henstead Union Workhouse, Swainsthorpe, Norfolk
The driveway up to Henstead Union workhouse at Swainsthorpe, Norfolk. The building, erected in 1836, was designed by John Brown

Ladywell Lodge, Lewisham, south east London
Aerial view of Ladywell Lodge, a residential institution for the elderly, near Lewisham, in south east London

Thomas Edison / Phonograph
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor with his Edison Business Phonograph

Darwin / Elliott & Fry
CHARLES DARWIN Naturalist

Queen Victoria C1880
QUEEN VICTORIA Circa 1880

Edward Lear Aged 73 and a Half and His Cat Foss, Aged 16 (litho)
WTY124345 Edward Lear Aged 73 and a Half and His Cat Foss, Aged 16 (litho) by Lear, Edward (1812-88); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

British Countryside - A 75 year-old Shepherd at Crondall, Hampshire Date: 1938

Mr Oliver Firrell, blacksmith of Matfield Green, Kent. 1938

Bunions, X-ray
Bunions. Coloured X-ray of an elderly womans deformed inward-turning toes due to bunions (orange, lower centre)

Albert Einstein, artwork
Albert Einstein. Cartoon of the Swiss-German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

John Lewis, founder of the department store
John Lewis (1836 - 1928), founder of John Lewis department store on Oxford Street, London

A shepherd resting
An elderly shepherd rests on a small hillock with his collie dog as his sheep graze contentedly. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Blacksmith at work in his forge
An elderly blacksmith hammering a horseshoe on his anvil. The owner of the horse awaiting a new set of shoes looks in at the window, while the blacksmiths cat scratches an ear on the work bench

Egypt - Old Egyptian men at prayer

Elderly Gypsy Woman
An elderly gypsy woman with long dark hair and wearing a thick cardigan stands in front of the brightly painted family caravan at an encampment in Surrey

Elderly man playing a sitar by the Ganges (Ganga) River, Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh State, India

Street band wearing orange shirts playing music on the pavement watched by toddler wearing orange clothes, Habana Vieja (Old Havana), Havana, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

Fountains in city, Erevan (Yerevan), Armenia, Central Asia, Asia

Homeward at Sunset Aldin
Homeward : three white horses pull a covered wagon and an elderly man and woman follow on foot as the sun sets over the hills

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
Leo Tolstoy (Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy), Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and educational reformer

Tarot Card 9 - L Ermite (The Hermit)

A Cognocenti Contemplating Ye Beauties of Ye Antique, published by Hannah Humphrey
XCF306001 A Cognocenti Contemplating Ye Beauties of Ye Antique, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1801 (hand-coloured etching) by Gillray

Resident monk at chapel door, Paleokastritsa Monastery, Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Duke Wellington / Stereo
DUKE OF WELLINGTON British General and statesman, known as the Iron Duke

"The Old Inn"Gulval, Cornwall willed to the Coldstream Guards Association for
" The Old Inn" Gulval, Cornwall willed to the Coldstream Guards Association for 99 years by the late Captain Bolitho, was handed over to a new landlord

Clara Zetkin, German Marxist theorist, activist and advocate for womens rights. A member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. 27 October 1924

Italian dentist - Naples
Postcard entitled Neopolitan Customs ! An elderly lady about to have one of her teeth removed courtesy of the dentist and his rather serious-looking pair of pliers!! Date: circa 1910

Alzheimers brain. Computer processed vertical (coronal) slice through the brain of an Alzheimer patient (at left) compared with a normal brain (at right)

Characterful old lady with her knitting
A characterful old lady sits in a chair, holding a few rows of knitting in front of her as she looks thoughtfully into the distance

Shoemakers, Tunisia
Two shoemakers in their small workshop, Tunisia

Mrs Sullivan of Covent Garden Market
Mrs Sullivan, or Auntie of the Garden, a famous character in Covent Garden Market who earned her living from looking after the carters whips

Sitar maker, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Asia

Figure riding cart with milk churn, Arigna, Shannon River, County Leitrim, Connacht, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Sikh Shrine, Pakistan, Asia

Portrait of a blacksmith at work, town of Axoum (Axum) (Aksum), Tigre region, Ethiopia, Africa

Musicians playing guitars, Havana Viejo, Havana, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

Ww Gull / Cabinet Portrait
CHARLES DARWIN English naturalist

Queen Victoria, from London Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil, by Rev
KW330064 Queen Victoria, from London Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil, by Rev

Elderly Lope de Vega; Portrait of Lope de Vega. Spanish anonymous portrait. Oil on canvas

Elderly woman making lace in an open doorway
An elderly woman making lace in the open doorway of her home, with a large number of bobbins on display. Date: 20th century

People generations of different ages. Man woman baby, kids teenagers, young adult elderly persons. Human age vector concept

Eccentric elderly Cuban woman Graciela Gonzalez also known as Granny Puretta smokes cigar at age 84 in the historical centre in Havana

Old Maid card - Old Maid. circa 1940s

Marabout at work, Mbour, Thies, Senegal, West Africa, Africa

Movie Chief Technical Advisor General Adolf Galland (Lef?
Movie Chief Technical Advisor General Adolf Galland (Left), Former Head of the Real Luftwaffe

The New Word in Golf by H. M. Bateman
H. M. Bateman at his explosive best with this cartoon of an irate elderly golfer who fills the air with Anglo-Saxon expletives in frustration at his golf game

Old lady, Burford, Cotswolds
An old lady, smartly dressed and wearing a deerstalker cap, look in an antique shop window. She carries a wicker shopping basket. Burford, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, England

Mrs Mounter at the Breakfast Table, 1916-17. Artist: Harold Gilman
Mrs Mounter at the Breakfast Table, 1916?7. Painting held in the Tate, London. From The Studio Volume 99. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1930]

Barbary lion in the New York Zoological Park
Postcard showing " Sultan" the barbary lion in the New York Zoological Park. Date: circa 1920

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"Elderly: A Tapestry of Timeless Wisdom and Resilience" Gypsy Splendour - Laura Knight captures the vibrant spirit individuals, their stories woven into the fabric of time. As Pope Francis presides over Easter Holy Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, he embraces the wisdom and faith that only age can bring. In Shotley Bridge General Hospital, County Durham, dedicated healthcare professionals provide compassionate care to our beloved seniors, honoring their journey through life. Walking meditation led by Thich Nhat Hanh in Paris, France allows elderly souls to find solace amidst bustling streets as they connect with inner peace. Friedrich Engels & Marx remind us that even great thinkers grow old; their ideas continue to shape society long after they have left this world. The Old Fisherman by Joseph Edward Southall portrays a weathered face etched with experience and resilience—a testament to the strength found within aging hearts. Simeon in the Temple by Rembrandt depicts an elderly figure filled with wisdom and anticipation—an embodiment of patience rewarded through years of devotion. Pantomime Characters from Commedia dell'Arte celebrate the joyous spirit that remains alive within older hearts—laughter knows no age limit. NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER, a French music teacher who defied societal norms during her time, reminds us that creativity has no expiration date—it flourishes throughout all stages of life. Rainy Street in Manchester reflects how even amidst gloomy skies, elders carry an umbrella of experience and resilience—their spirits undeterred by life's storms. Ennui captured by Walter Richard Sickert reveals moments when boredom creeps into elder lives—but it is through these lulls that new passions may emerge or cherished memories revisited. Queen Victoria's bond with Munshi Abdul Karim showcases how intergenerational connections transcend cultural barriers—love recognizes no boundaries when it comes to age.