Painting/Art Bookmarks

Text on the reverse side: Les marins sont les membres actifs de l’équipage d’un navire au-dessous du grade d’officier. Cette illustration d'un mar...

Text on the reverse side: In the publication Eclipse, 14th June 1868, André Gill illustrates Dickens crossing the English Channel holding his favo...

Text on the reverse side: A part of an album including 326 paintings, this piece was painted by Shaikh Zain al-Din. Although the painter was train...

Text on the reverse side: Indian ringneck parakeets are notorious for their excellent talking skills. They were once considered sacred. Religious ...

Text on the reverse side: Damayanti and Nala, from an Indian love story, fall for each other without ever having met. A golden swan acts as a mess...

Text on the reverse side: The peacock and peahen symbolise guidance,protection, integrity and the confidence in knowing that anything is possible ...

Text on the reverse side: Elizabeth I (1533-1603), the last Tudor monarch, ruled England and Ireland for over 40 years. Through bringing peace to ...

Text on the reverse side: Similar to several other great artists, Pissarro found refuge in London to escape the Franco-Prussian war and first visi...

Text on the reverse side: The rose symbolises both beauty and fragility - qualities deeply intertwined with the opera’s themes, conveying the dram...

Text on the reverse side: The stage set painting for La Bohème captures the vibrant atmosphere of Paris's Latin Quarter. Rich in detail, the desig...

Text on the reverse side: A panoramic view of London from Somerset Gardens to the Tower highlights St. Paul’s Cathedral and church spires. In the ...

Text on the reverse side: Prayer is a powerful method of expressing gratitude or guidance. Research has also confirmed that the act results in a b...

Text on the reverse side: Louis Wain spent years as an inpatient in hospitals due to mental health problems. His work from this period is marked b...

Text on the reverse side: This drawing, which accompanied Dickens and his wife during their tour of the USA in 1841, served as a reminder of their...

Text on the reverse side: An interesting fact about the human skeleton is that at birth, a human has approximately 270 bones. However, as a person...

Text on the reverse side: The painting illustrates Revelation 3:20: "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens ...

Text on the reverse side: Le Pouf était une coiffure popularisée en France au 18e siécle par Marie-Antoinette. Elle était crée en épinglant les ch...

Text on the reverse side: Publié à Paris, le recueil des dernières coiffures à la mode, chacune portant un titre descriptif, se compose d'une séri...

Text on the reverse side: This painting by Caravaggio cleverly contrasts light and dark to evoke a moment of spiritual awakening. Through an illum...

Text on the reverse side: The Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, led the expansion of the American steel industr...

Text on the reverse side: Study for Edward Degas’ 1880 painting Dancers in the Classroom. The figure in this sketch is more than twice the size of...

Text on the reverse side: Pastel drawing by Odilon Redon. Redon included this painted vase in a number of his illustrations, a gift from his ceram...

Text on the reverse side: Sketch of a woman with an umbrella by Georges Seurat. Seurat created many studies such as this one in preparation for cr...

Text on the reverse side: Dating back to ancient times, knot-tying is an important skill for sailing and maritime activity. There are over 3,800 t...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration showing the evolution of French Naval Uniforms from 1690 to 1930. The type of uniform worn and insignia dis...

Text on the reverse side: With earliest models dating back to the 2ndC, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere with e...

Text on the reverse side: Les bouées sifflantes aident les marins à s’orienter par temps brumeux et incertains. Lorsque la bouée monte et descend ...

Text on the reverse side: Whistling buoys help sailors find their way in foggy and misty weather. As the buoy bobs up and down in the water, compr...

Text on the reverse side: The École navale, or the French Naval Academy, has trained the officers of the French Navy since 1830. This illustration...

Text on the reverse side: Sailors are the working members of a ship’s crew below the officer-level rank. This illustration of a sailor from the Fr...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration from the botanical book ‘The Temple of Flora’. The begonia is mildly toxic to humans and animals where inge...

Text on the reverse side: This portrait miniature of Charles Dickens with dark curls was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1844, b...

Text on the reverse side: Following his father's imprisonment at Marshalsea Prison for debt, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), then aged just 12 years ...

Text on the reverse side: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) began his writing career aged 20 as a journalist and parliamentary reporter. During this tim...

Text on the reverse side: Robert Buss, an admirer of Charles Dickens’ writings, painted the piece five years after the author’s death. Filled with...

Text on the reverse side: Part of a series of Indian miniature paintings called Ragamala, ‘Garland of Ragas’. Each painting represents a different...