A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
Alice, Mock Turtle and the Gryphon from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
The Courting.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Francesco Petrarca.
Santa racing through the snow.
Cartoon by John Tenniel.
A criminal being punished by flogging.
A father and daughter bringing food for roasting to the local baker to be cooked.
A policeman speaking with a young woman.
Charity sweeping aside Mr Brumble's protests in her determination to bring relief to poor families in distress.
Charity sweeping aside Mr Bumble's Protests.
The abuse of the limited liability system.
Cartoon commenting on the less-than enthusiastic response to the new British coinage.
A cup-and-ball, a traditional children's toy.
Father Christmas roller skating.
The suspension of grouse.
The sale of beef.
The Franco-Prussian War.
Queen Victoria.
The rising rail fares.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
William Gifford, British poet and editor
A camel.
Elephant.
Mary Howitt.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
The plea for a block signalling system to be made compulsory.
A new private bill.
John Tenniel cartoon titled 'Enquiry by the Registrar General'
John Tenniel cartoon titled 'Limited Liability Companys'
Political satire depicting William Ewart Gladstone
Political satire depicting William Ewart Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli
Political satire depicting William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli and John Bull
Political satire depicting William Ewart Gladstone and his 'old friend Homer'
A sailor.
Queen Victoria being urged by Britannia to come back into the world after her long mourning.
John Bull watching Autumn manoeuvres.
The distressed poet.
The Khaki Election.
Benjamin Ward Richardson.
Edmond Rostand.
Coventry Patmore.
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
The floating bridge of dreams.
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Penny Readings.
Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Illustration, Circa 1865
Learner and Teacher.
Father William balancing an eel on his nose
Father William having eaten the Goose
Father William does a back somersalt
Father William standing on his head
The Mad Hatter reciting his nonsense poem Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat
The visit from the madwoman from Charlotte Bront's 'Jane Eyre'.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
POE: THE RAVEN.
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Illustration by Alphonse Mucha from "Rama" a poem in three acts by Paul Verola. ca.1898. Mucha (1860 1939). was a Czech Art Nouveau painter
Paolo and Francesca
The effects of coal burning on London.
The frequency of accidents on excursion trains.
The raising of train fares.
Punch's advice to the British seaside holidaymakers.
The British government authorising the Rothschilds to buy out shares of the Suez Canal.
The Haunted Lady.
Thomas Parnell.
Illustration For The Poem The Passionate Pilgrim By William Shakespeare
Boris Pasternak.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Mr Punch's dream of Electricity sweeping all before it.
Cartoon by George du Maurier.
University education for women.
A woman reading while peeling apples.
A wealthy woman checking out a book from the library.
A typical circulating library.
A game of lawn tennis.
Passengers on the London Underground.
Illustration for the Poem 'Wine' by Charles Pierre Baudelaire
An inhabitant of Sirius, the Dog Star.
A Wolf and a Crane.
A crow and a fox.
Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Hand Colored Illustration, Circa 1865
Alice and the Dodo, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Hand Colored Illustration, Circa 1865
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Diana and Endymion
from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
King and Queen of Hearts at the trial of the Knave of Hearts, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Hand-Colored Illustration, Circa 1865
GEORGE DU MAURIER
JAPAN: SCHOLARS.
Old Father Thames.
Mr Punch appealing to John Bull.
The Wind in a Frolic.
HERBERT: THE CHURCH PORCH.
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
Dr
Blind women looks out of her window.
The old man at death's gate, illustration
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
Blood letting
A woman applying to be a nurse.
Ladies enjoying a day at the seaside.
The character Oliver Twist.
Dr. Syntax.
Oliver Twist.
SHAKESPEARE: POEMS.
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Arriving At The Restaurant
Clerks at the Public Offices passing their time in idleness during the holiday period.
King Lear 1604
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:/Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941).
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
Applied Science Conquering All.
Mr Punch's view of the future importance of refrigeration.
William Shakespeare
Duel 1925
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
The chimney sweep
The pneumatic dispatch which the General Post Office used to transport parcels under London.
A young boy asking a gentleman to lift him so he can see the photographs in the store.
A man who is suffering from the effects of over-indulgence.
A sweated labourer.
A policeman and passers-by trying to help a lost child.
A mother punishing her naughty boy.
Cartoon by John Leech.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston handing Queen Victoria his resignation.
A chaotic meeting of railway shareholder's.
The consequences of the crash of many railway companies.
A crow and raven.
A butterfly and bee.
Betting fever.
Chinese peasants and watermen playing Dice.
A group of sister at the beach.
Pancake tossing.
The Witches Frolic.
A gluttonous man devouring a Christmas feast.
A Christmas Pudding being taken up.
The serving of a Christmas Pudding.
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
Evolution satire 'Monkeyana', 1861