Notes Collection (page 18)

Still life with violin and painting
Andrey Morozov

Still life with violin and bust
Andrey Morozov

Still life with violin and candles
Andrey Morozov

Still life with peonies
Alina Lankina

Hands, 1318006

high calling
Ivan Kovalev

Water Music (Η Μουσική των Υδάτων)
Maria Kaimaki

vivace
Roswitha Schleicher-Schwarz

These fivers and tenners are destined for the bodyscanner coffers, thanks to the fund-raising efforts of (from left) Michelle, Daniel, Martin, Gary and Claire Whitwam

Shamila Elahi, eight, surprised the head teacher of Abingdon Junior School, Middlesbrough, when he asked his pupils to pay at least 60p for a red nose, with the money going to charity

An air crash investigator at work in an indoor location with pieces of wreckage from a plane crash set out on the floor. Date: 1960s

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles

The first members of the Norwich staff of Nurses. Formal group of eight nurses, posed indoors. Also two further copies and three negatives, plus notes on photograph and likely hospital

ENGLISH POUND NOTES
A five pound note, a one pound note and a ten shilling note. Date: 1960s

Dr Syntax sketching the lake
Dr Syntax in Englands Lake District sketches the scene before him. At this time, tourists carried sketch books the way later travellers would carry cameras. Date: 1815

COMPARING DANCE CARDS
After the ball, two young women compare notes on the partners they have enjoyed or endured in the course of the evening. Date: 1882

REVOLUTIONARY ASSIGNAT
FRANCE A French assignat of the Revolutionary era

GUINEA NOTE FROM WHITBY
BRITAIN Guinea note from Whitby Old Bank Date: 1822

MYTTON LOSES WINNINGS
English eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) homeward bound one evening from Doncaster falls asleep while counting his winnings - thus many bank- notes were blown away & lost. Date: 1820s

A PHOTOGRAPH EXPEDITION
Amateur photographers liked to go on expeditions, comparing notes : here, photographers look for picturesque subjects in Shanklin Chine, on the Isle of Wight Date: circa 1895

Beau Brummell Satire
BEAU BRUMMELL An impertinent young man notes the demise of the formerly famously handsome (but now fat) dandy, George Beau Brummell. Date: 1778 - 1840

FABIAN SOCIETY 1892
The Fabian Society meets at Essex Hall, London Date: 1892

Eclectus Roratus Polychloros, ca. 1830-32. Creator: Edward Lear
Eclectus Roratus Polychloros, ca. 1830-32

EyeUbiquitous_20107466
Music, Instruments, Strings, Violin, Detail of woman playing in orchestra

JAPAN 6
Japan/ Tokyo woman is resting alone at one of the benches of Tokyos art museum and exhibition hall

Telling the Tale, Ambassadors Theatre, London
Telling the Tale, at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, for a hearty laugh with music running through it. circa 1918

Notes regarding the Treaty of Leoben, March 1797, (1921). Creator: Napoleon Bonaparte I
Notes regarding the Treaty of Leoben, March 1797, (1921). Projets en vue du traite de Leoben. The Treaty was signed at Eggenwaldsches Gartenhaus, near Leoben in Austria

Coronation souvenir postcard - King Edward VII. Date: 1902

Captain Scott Writing Up His Journal, c1911, (1928). Creator: Herbert Ponting
Captain Scott Writing Up His Journal, c1911, (1928). British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) writing in his quarters at Cape Evans in Antarctica

Captain Scott Writing His Diary in the Hut at Cape Evans, c1911, (1914). Creator: Herbert Ponting
Captain Scott Writing His Diary in the Hut at Cape Evans, c1911, (1914). British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) writing in his quarters

Chorale Variations for Organ by Johann Sebastian Bach: Sei gegrusset, Jesu gutig
896239 Chorale Variations for Organ by Johann Sebastian Bach: Sei gegrusset, Jesu gutig, with title and annotations by Rinck, purchaser of the manuscript in 1841 (ms 1086 fol)

Symphony, 1915 (oil on canvas)
BAL231455 Symphony, 1915 (oil on canvas) by Menkov, Michail Ivanovich (1885-1926); 63x60.5 cm; Art Museum, Samara, Russia; Russian, out of copyright

WW2 - V for Victory - the Victorious Allies. Date: 1945

Captain Scott in His Den, c1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Captain Scott in His Den, c1911, (1913). British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) writing in his quarters

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), legal tender notes issued by the City council of Borges Blanques (Lleida) and Hijar (Teruel), in 1936

Measurement is Science, 1879, (c1915). Artist: Henry Stacy Marks
Measurement is Science, 1879, (c1915). Held at the Royal Academy, London. From Famous Pictures of the World, c1900

Notes made by Izaak Walton, c1662. Artist: Izaak Walton
Notes made by Izaak Walton, c1662. Entries made on the fly-leaf of a copy of The Book of Common Prayer, recording the births of three of his children and the deaths of Rachel Floud, his first wife

Notes for a a speech by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 30th April 1805. Artist: Richard Sheridan
Notes for a a speech by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 30th April 1805. Notes for a a speech in the House of Commons imputing to William Pitt misapplication of public funds in connection with the charge

Joan of Arc in Prison, 1825. Artist: Paul Delaroche
Joan of Arc in Prison, 1825. Joan, in chains, is interrogated by a prelate in scarlet. Behind his chair a secretary stands recording the interrogation in a book

Banknotes and coins pre decimalisation vfr1

Cartoon, Gaston Murray, actor and writer
Cartoon, Gaston Murray (Garstin Parker Wilson, 1826-1889), actor and writer -- Gar. 1883

Inspector Sheila Ward, Met Police, London
Inspector Sheila Ward (b.c1937), Met Police, London, the first woman to hold the post of Station Inspector, at Kings Cross. Seen here speaking to a line of male police officers

Cartoon, In the trench club, WW1
Cartoon, In the trench club. Some French soldiers are playing cards for money in their trench when an explosion goes off nearby

Japanese Five Dollar Banknote - Banana Money
Japanese government-issued five dollar banknote. The Japanese dollar was a currency issued by Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Banknote 500000000000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 500000000000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj (18331904) - Serbian poet. Date: circa 1990s

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 10000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 10000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787-1864), a Serbian philologist and linguist Date: circa 1990s

187 brass bands competing at Crystal Palace. 29 September 1934

Four Sea Scouts at Colchester, Essex
Four Sea Scouts under instruction and making notes at Colchester, Essex. circa 1950

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