Illustrated Collection (#4)

The Great Train Robbery- commando raid frees train robber
Front page of The Illustrated London News reporting on the latest episode in the Great Train Robbery saga. As Ronald Biggs clambers with there other prisoners over Wandsworth Gaol wall

Illustrated London News 1979, Thatcher and Callaghan
Front cover of the Illustrated London News, May 1979 featuring portraits of James Callaghan, Labour leader and incumbent Prime Minister and Tory Party Leader, Margaret Thatcher

The Twelve Days of Christmas, illustrated by Leslie Wood

Hampton Court Palace, by Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson
A watercolour and pen painting of Hampton Court Palace, London. The Illustrated London News featured a long running series of paintings of Londons architecture by Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson during

Sketches of Cricket in India, 1890
A series of sketches by an English Cavalry Officer of a game of cricket played between an Indian College and British Officers, in India, 1890

Knight, from the Codex Capodilista (vellum)
488825 Knight, from the Codex Capodilista (vellum) by Italian School, (15th century); Biblioteca Civica, Padua, Italy; (add.info.: Chevalier)

Engraving depicting a Norse / Viking ship typical of the 10th century
Engraving depicting a Norse/Viking ship

Nunnery at little gidding, Huntingdonshire, 1641 (engraving)
3629257 Nunnery at little gidding, Huntingdonshire, 1641 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Nunnery at little gidding, Huntingdonshire, 1641)

Silver-grey Dorking hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by O.F. Cresswell and first prize winner at Ashford, second prize winner at Birmingham 1872

Japanese bantams, black bantams and Pekin bantams. Mrs. Woodcocks Japanese white bantams, first prize at Crystal Palace 1872. E. Cambridges black bantams, cup winner at Bristol 1873. H. B

Be Just and Fear Not! (colour litho)
3648302 Be Just and Fear Not! (colour litho) by Morgan, Matthew " Matt" Somerville (1839-90); Private Collection; (add.info.: Be Just and Fear Not)

Sir Thomas Fairfax and his military council, 1647 (engraving)
3629273 Sir Thomas Fairfax and his military council, 1647 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Thomas Fairfax and his military council, 1647)

Plesiosaurus battling Temnodontosaurus (Oligostinus), 1840 (engraving)
3697027 Plesiosaurus battling Temnodontosaurus (Oligostinus), 1840 (engraving) by Martin, John (1789-1854); Private Collection; (add.info)

View of the mounds of Kouyunjik [Quyunjik] and Nebbi Yunus
3899813 View of the mounds of Kouyunjik [Quyunjik] and Nebbi Yunus, and of the remains of the exterior walls, from Mosul, 1853 (lithograph) by Layard, Austen Henry (1817-94); New York Public Library

Ruffed Grouse, 1865 (hand-coloured lithograph)
991231 Ruffed Grouse, 1865 (hand-coloured lithograph) by Elliot, Daniel Girard (fl.1860-77); 59x47 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Ruffed Grouse; Bonasa Umbellus)

"There was an Old Man of Corfu, who never knew what he should do", from A Book of Nonsense
LLM386624 " There was an Old Man of Corfu, who never knew what he should do", from A Book of Nonsense, published by Frederick Warne and Co

Fol. 414v, Facts and memorable words (vellum)
XZO362948 Fol.414v, Facts and memorable words (vellum) by French School; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add.info.: Faits et paroles memorables; ); French, out of copyright

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a sailing boat made by Meikousha in Hiogo (Hyogo) in Japan for the Swedish market Date: c. 1910s

The Merry Wives of Windsor - title page - Anne Page and Slender, an inept and unsuccessful suitor. 1862

Advert for Happy New Year Costume Ball 31st December 1925
Black and white advertisement in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 28th November 1925 for the Happy New Year Costume Ball at the Albert Hall on 21st December 1925

Cover design, The Mothers Picture Alphabet
Cover design in blue and gold, The Mothers Picture Alphabet, dedicated by Her Majestys Permission to HRH the Princess Beatrice, designed by Henry Anelay, engraved by James Johnston. Date: circa 1860

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Stories from Puppyland. Mr Terrier, proud father of ten puppies, smokes his pipe and reads his newspaper. Date: 1904

Mongrel puppy tempted by his masters shoes. Date: 1914

Lance-Corporal Jarvis in Great War Deeds, WW1
Lance-Corporal Charles A Jarvis of the Royal Engineers, winning the Victoria Cross by fixing a firing charge for the demolition of a bridge, under heavy fire

Green and pink seeds of nutmeg and mace, Myristica fragrans Houtt.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Suffragette Imps become Suffragists. Cartoon Imps who featured in Ideas Penny Illustrated Weekly are seen behaving as wild suffragettes

A Memorial Notice of Julian Gould, D Company, 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. k.i.a. 30th May 1917 near Monchy-le-Preux aged 25 years. This book was privately printed by his father, Frederick J

Norman Cyril Jackson, V. C winner
Warrant Officer Norman Cyril Jackson(1919-1994), Victoria Cross winner, as he appeared in the Illustrated London News, 1945

Alkometer after laboratory process

AD: FISK TIRES, 1927. American advertisement for Fisk Tires, 1927

I have not an instant to lose, illustration from Pride & Prejudice
XJF451393 I have not an instant to lose, illustration from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, edition published in 1894 (engraving) by Thomson

Accompanied by their aunt, illustration from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
XJF451389 Accompanied by their aunt, illustration from Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, edition published in 1894 (engraving) by Thomson

A most stupendous basking shark caught within one league of
Advertising flyer for the public exhibition in London of a basking shark caught in Brighton

PATON, Sir Joseph Noel (1821-1901). The Ancient Mariner. One of the depictions of the edition illustrated by Noel Paton of

The universality of car ownership
An illustration depicting the universality of car ownership in 1926, by showing a large and a small car both made by Austin

A battle flag, the Union Jack is held by a horseman on top of a mound in a London News illustration
Illustrated London News record of Transvall War 1899-1900. The achievements of the home and colonial forces in the great conflict with the Boer Republics. Spencer Wilkinson record. Sons of the Blood

Young New Zealand. John Bull is riding an out-dated penny farthing while Young New Zealand has a modern bicycle. New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893. Illustrated by Joan Harvey Drew

Unruly Oval cricket crowd
Impatient cricket spectators gather near the square at the Oval during an interruption in play in the match between Surrey and Yorkshire

An ammunition column passing through Ypres, 1917. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Electricity machine by Pixii
An early form of an alternating current electrical generator built by Pixii in 1832

Illustrated political chart, a cartoon of American politics and the Tapeworm Party. Print shows James G. Blaine as the head of a tapeworm made up of various government scandals over a map of

Market Reports Illustrated - Unexpected fruit supply cleared
Market Reports Illustrated - Fruit, an unexpected supply was rapidly cleared! A fallen basket of apples is swiftly cleared up by lucky pedestrians! Date: circa 1905

Racing Illustrated - Putting on the Stakes A jolly French Chef working in a large restaurant kitchen puts an order of beef steaks under the grill. One could say this card was medium rare

Sport & Country nameplate with racecourse
Nameplate for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sport & Country magazine from 6th July 1955, featuring a colourful racecourse illustration. Date: 6th July 1955

The Terrace, Windsor Castle, by Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson
A watercolour and pen painting of the Terrace, Windsor Castle, London. The Illustrated London News featured a long running series of paintings of Londons architecture by Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson

Benjamin Bovill, c. 1824
Illustrated portrait of Benjamin Bovill, the English merchant, c.1824. Date: 11 October 1890

American Anti-Aircraft Guns near London; Second World War, 1
Illustration showing an American anti-aircraft unit firing at enemy bombers, during a German raid on London in 1944. The gun shown is a 90-mm weapon

Farmworker Takes Break
A British farmworker and his dog take a well-earned break from the plough

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