Art/Painting Art Prints

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. The Artful Dodger is a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, in which he...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Richard “Dick” Swiveller, a character from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, is a...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Bill Sikes is a villainous character from the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, in wh...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Mr. Bumble is a character from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Though he preaches high mo...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Samuel Pickwick, a character from 'The Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens, is a well-inte...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Alfred Jingle is a character from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. He works as a st...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Sarah Gamp, from ‘Martin Chuzzlewit,’ was based on a real-life nurse known to Charles Dick...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Mrs. Bardell is a character from the Charles Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers. A misunder...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. The Marchioness is from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. She starts out as Miss ...

Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Sam Weller is a character from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. A bootblack with a ...

Engraving from “London, A Pilgrimage,” a collaborative project between French artist Gustave Doré and British journalist Blanchard Jerrold. The two...

Illustration by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, featuring ‘hedgehog’ in various languages. The word 'hedgehog' was first used in 1450 and is derived fro...

Illustration from the Ex Libris page of an 1875 edition of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe thought to be inspired by Charles Dickens’ pet raven, Gri...

A silhouette of Charles Dickens sold from The Old Curiosity Shop in London. His novel The Old Curiosity Shop was published as a weekly series. Read...

Les boussoles sont des outils utiles dans la navigation terrestre et maritime. On utilise une boussole dite d’arpenteur pour cartographier les terr...

With earliest models dating back to the 2ndC, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere with either the earth or sun at t...

Cette carte a été créée en 1660, par le graveur et éditeur néerlandais, Justus Danckerts. L'entreprise familiale de cartographie Danckerts, était u...

This map was created in 1660 by Dutch engraver and print publisher Justus Danckerts. The Danckerts cartographic family business was a major map and...

Datant de l’Antiquité, l’art du matelotage est une compétence importante pour la voile et les activités maritimes. Il existe plus de 3800 types de ...

Dating back to ancient times, knot-tying is an important skill for sailing and maritime activity. There are over 3,800 types of knots in the world,...

Compasses are useful tools in both land-based and maritime navigation, employing a magnetised needle to identify true north. This is a surveyor’s c...

Les phares anciens étaient rudimentaires, constitués de plates-formes ou de petites structures surmontées de feux. Au XIXe siècle, l’ingénierie des...

Ancient lighthouses were rudimentary, consisting of platforms or small structures with fires on top. In the 19th C., lighthouse engineering became ...

Les bouées sifflantes aident les marins à s’orienter par temps brumeux et incertains. Lorsque la bouée monte et descend dans l’eau, l’air comprimé ...

Whistling buoys help sailors find their way in foggy and misty weather. As the buoy bobs up and down in the water, compressed air passes through th...

L'École navale, ou Académie navale française, forme les officiers de la Marine française depuis 1830. Cette illustration est tirée d'une série de c...

The École navale, or the French Naval Academy, has trained the officers of the French Navy since 1830. This illustration of a young cadet is from a...

Les marins sont les membres actifs de l’équipage d’un navire au-dessous du grade d’officier. Cette illustration d'un marin provient d'une série de ...

Sailors are the working members of a ship’s crew below the officer-level rank. This illustration of a sailor from the French Navy comes from a seri...

Le Petit Journal était un quotidien parisien populaire publié entre 1843 et 1944. Sur cette couverture figure le navire de guerre français Marengo,...

Le Petit Journal was a popular daily Parisian newspaper published between 1843 and 1944. The French naval ship Marengo is featured on this cover, n...

Illustration montrant l'évolution des uniformes de la marine française de 1690 à 1930. Le type d'uniforme porté et d'insignes affichés par un membr...

Illustration showing the evolution of French Naval Uniforms from 1690 to 1930. The type of uniform worn and insignia displayed by a member of the F...

Illustration from the botanical book ‘The Temple of Flora’. The begonia is mildly toxic to humans and animals where ingesting leaves an unpleasant ...

This portrait miniature of Charles Dickens with dark curls was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1844, before being lost for 174 ye...

In this posthumous engraving by Samuel Hollyer, Dickens is seated at a desk in his country home of Gad’s Hill Place, where he completed A Tale of T...