Painting

Text on the reverse side:Compasses are useful tools in both land-based and maritime navigation, employing a magnetised needle to identify true nort...

Text on the reverse side:Les phares anciens étaient rudimentaires, constitués de plates-formes ou de petites structures surmontées de feux. Au XIXe...

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

Text on the reverse side:Ancient lighthouses were rudimentary, consisting of platforms or small structures with fires on top. In the 19th C., light...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Text on the reverse side: L'École navale, ou Académie navale française, forme les officiers de la Marine française depuis 1830. Cette illustration...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Text on the reverse side:Le Petit Journal était un quotidien parisien populaire publié entre 1843 et 1944. Sur cette couverture figure le navire de...

Text on the reverse side:Le Petit Journal was a popular daily Parisian newspaper published between 1843 and 1944. The French naval ship Marengo is ...

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...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration montrant l'évolution des uniformes de la marine française de 1690 à 1930. Le type d'uniforme porté et d'ins...

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...

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...

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

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...

Text on the reverse side: In this posthumous engraving by Samuel Hollyer, Dickens is seated at a desk in his country home of Gad’s Hill Place, whe...

Text on the reverse side: This portrait of Charles Dickens was painted during his first tour of North America, where he caught the attention of Am...

Text on the reverse side:This portrait of Charles Dickens was painted during his first tour of North America, where he caught the attention of Amer...

In the publication Eclipse, 14th June 1868, André Gill illustrates Dickens crossing the English Channel holding his favourite novels. In a letter, ...

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

Part of a series of Indian miniature paintings called Ragamala, ‘Garland of Ragas’. Each painting represents a different mode of Indian music perso...