Painting

Text on the reverse side:This card is based on a chromolithographic college crest designed by Albert Henry Warren and published in Oxford, by T. an...

Louis Wain spent years as an inpatient in hospitals due to mental health problems. His work from this period is marked by bright colours and his fa...

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: A colourised adapation of a lithograph by Charles Radclyffe, who worked in London in 1842 to capture this South Western ...

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 recueil des dernières coiffures à la mode, se compose d'une série de 12 planches montrant un total de 48 coiffures di...

Text on the reverse side:Le Pouf était difficile a porter. Comme les dames portaient aussi les robes amples en vogue à l'époque, elles avaient du m...

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

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

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Text on the reverse side: Coiffures conçues par M. Ball. Installé au n° 131 d'Oxford Street, en face de Hanover Gate, à Londres, il a présenté sa ...

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:The novel Oliver Twist was loosely based on Charles Dickens’ own life. From age 12, he worked at a boot blacking factory. ...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Bill Sikes is a villainous character from the novel Oliver Twist ...

Text on the reverse side:Illustration by Joseph Clayton Clark, also known as Kyd. Mr. Bumble is a character from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. T...

Text on the reverse side: Illustration from the Ex Libris page of an 1875 edition of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe thought to be inspired by Char...

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: With earliest models dating back to the 2nd century, armillary spheres are brass representations of the celestial sphere...

Text on the reverse side: Les sphères armillaires, dont les premiers modèles remontent au IIème siècle, sont des représentations en laiton de la s...

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

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

Les sphères armillaires, dont les premiers modèles remontent au IIème siècle, sont des représentations en laiton de la sphère céleste. Les marins u...

Text on the reverse side: Datant de l’Antiquité, l’art du matelotage est une compétence importante pour la voile et les activités maritimes. Il ex...

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 typ...

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...

The name ‘scrooge’ has become another word for a miser in the English language. ‘Bah! Humbug!’ has come to express that something is overly festive...

The iconic novella was highly influential in reviving Christmas and reinventing how the season is celebrated. Celebrations became smaller and more ...

This portrait of Charles Dickens was painted during his first tour of North America, where he caught the attention of Americans who lined the stree...

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

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

The Universal Larousse was a combined dictionary and encyclopaedia. The dictionary focused on the presentation of French language words with illust...

Text on the reverse side: The love of Krishna and Radha is expressed by the multitude of birds, the flowering trees, and the intertwining of their...