Spectacles Collection

A Sporting Lawyer, form Vanity Fair, 17th March 1898 (colour litho)
XCF276416 A Sporting Lawyer, form Vanity Fair, 17th March 1898 (colour litho) by Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy) (1851-1922); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Anthony Trollope / Century
ANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist

Barrister in Full Swing
An advocate in full swing in the courtroom. He gets so carried away that his spectacles fall off

Tennyson / Ape / Vanity Fair
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON English poet Cartoon

Anthony Trollope
ANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist in old age Date: 1815 - 1882

Austria, Vienna, Photographic portrait of Gustav Mahler
Austria - 20th century. Gustav Mahler (Kalischt, 1860 - Vienna, 1911), Austrian composer and conductor of Bohemian origin. Photographic portrait

NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER, French music teacher
NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER (1887-1979), French music teacher and conductor. Her students included Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Lennox Berkeley, Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein. Date: early 1960s

Larry Braggs, 2013. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Larry Braggs, Tower of Power, Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Florida, 2013

Acker Bilk, Barbican, London, 1993. Creator: Brian Foskett
Acker Bilk, Barbican, London, 1993

Ww1 Postcard Bulldog
Theres life in the old dog yet ! - a British bulldog, depicted with a boot, a pair of spectacles and a German helmet

A Radical Lawyer, 1902. Artist: Spy
A Radical Lawyer, 1902. John Lawson Walton KC MP, British barrister and politician. Walton served as Attorney General from 1905-1908. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, 6th March 1902

Pat Martino, 2009. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Pat Martino, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 2009

1950s Cinema - Childrens Saturday Matinee. Boys and girls looking up at the screen and laughing. Two of the boys are wearing ABC badges -- the name of the cinema. Date: 1954

Sunset at Almyros Beach, near Acharavi, north coast, Corfu Island, Ionian Islands, Greece, Southern Europe, Europe

Blackpool Entertainment
The front cover of a souvenir programme for the Blackpool Tower & Winter Gardens, including the Tower circus and ballroom

Dyslexia treatment
MODEL RELEASED. Dyslexia treatment. Dyslexic girl wearing yellow glasses while reading

STALIN, LENIN & KALININ, 1919. Communist leaders Joseph Stalin
STALIN, LENIN & TROTSKY. Communist leaders Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, photographed at the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 18-23 March 1919

A Picture WITH Words by Chloe Preston
A studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords

Victorian Shoemaker
A Victorian shoemaker in his workshop

Ernst Werner Von Siemens
ERNST WERNER VON SIEMENS German engineer

Mahatma Gandhi sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone on 12 September 1931

Bill Frisell, 2006. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Bill Frisell, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 2006

A Cognocenti Contemplating Ye Beauties of Ye Antique, published by Hannah Humphrey
XCF306001 A Cognocenti Contemplating Ye Beauties of Ye Antique, published by Hannah Humphrey, 1801 (hand-coloured etching) by Gillray

Statue of Imre Nagy, hero of the 1956 Revolution, Budapest Hungary, Europe

Anthony Trollope / Photo
ANTHONY TROLLOPE English novelist

Jackie McLean, Jazz Cafe, London, April 1991. Artist: Brian O Connor
Jackie McLean, Jazz Cafe, London, April 1991

Portrait of Gustav Mahler, 1907 (b / w photo)
XJF275615 Portrait of Gustav Mahler, 1907 (b/w photo) by Austrian Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) 1916 (oil on canvas)
BAL10491 Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) 1916 (oil on canvas) by Carrington, Dora (1893-1932); 68.6x73.6 cm; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Elderly woman making lace in an open doorway
An elderly woman making lace in the open doorway of her home, with a large number of bobbins on display. Date: 20th century

Italo Calvino / Morgan
ITALO CALVINO Italian writer

Lombroso / Cesare / Postcard
CESARE LOMBROSO Italian physician and criminologist

Yeats / Graphic 1923
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and senator, shown here attending the first meeting of the new Dail Eireann in Dublin

Sacha Guitry / Jeidels
SACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, lighting a cigarette

Tommy Dorsey / Postcard
TOMMY DORSEY Jazz musician

Sir Frederick Bridge
Sir John Frederick Bridge Musician

Old Maid card - Old Maid. circa 1940s

The Parable of the Rich Fool, 1627. Creator: Rembrandt van Rhijn (1606-1669)
The Parable of the Rich Fool, 1627. Found in the Collection of Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Producer. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Mr Pastry, aka Richard Hearne, with lion
Mr Pastry, aka the comic actor Richard Hearne (1908-1979), with a lion. Date: circa 1960s

Old lady smoking Cigar in the old town area of Havana, Cuba Old lady smoking Cigar in the old town area of Havana, Cuba

The poet and novelist Katharine Tynan (1861 - 1931), pictured at home with her husband, the writer and barrister, Henry Hinkson, her three children and dog

Actor Michael Caine pictured in the centre of London in July 1964. Michael Caine, born 13th March 1933, is a world famous actor from South London

James Clark, Kilmarnock, Scotland. Around 1920
Portrait photograph of Dr James Clark (1861-1935), Principal of Central Technical Schools for Cornwall from 1899 to 1908

Picture No. 12020840
Meerkat at swimming pool with unicorn inflatable and cool glasses. Digital manipulation Date:

Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician, Ronnie Scott s, London, 1978. He is known for his guitar and harmonica playing, as well as his whistling skills

Enrico Tomasso and Acker Bilk, Dorking Halls, Dorking, Surrey, 2012

Herbie Hancock, 2008. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Herbie Hancock Sextet with Lionel Loueke, Sage Theatre, Gateshead, November 2008

Cheery Families - Miss Switch the Schoolmasters Daughter. 1890s

Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal Family
Advertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841

Cavour, Camillo Benso, Count of (Turin, 1810-1861) Italian statesman
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (Turin, 1810-1861) Italian statesman. Founder of Il Risorgimento (1847). Engraving by Rim. Colored

Portrait of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) engraved by H. Roemer (engraving) (b / w photo)
XIR194126 Portrait of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) engraved by H. Roemer (engraving) (b/w photo) by Jaeger, Carl (1833-87) (after); Private Collection; German, out of copyright

Picture No. 10901724
DOG - Pug wearing Happy Birthday glasses with streamers & balloons Date:

Reginald Malby, photographer
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society. Seen here in a head and shoulders portrait with a pipe in his mouth

Utrillo and Guitry
MAURICE UTRILLO French painter, best known for his Parisian street scenes, with the actor and dramatist SACHA GUITRY (1885-1957), in Montmartre, Paris, 1955

Josef Scheffel / Postcard
JOSEF VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL German poet and novelist

Eric Gill, sculptor and printmaker, at work
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (1882 - 1940), English sculptor, printmaker and typeface designer, at work, using a magnifying glass. Date: 1930

Miles Davis and his Fusion Group, North Sea Jazz Festival, The Hague, 1991

Edward Donovan
EDWARD DONOVAN Well-fed naturalist, reading a paper with the aid of spectacles. Date: 1768 - 1837

John Cumming
JOHN CUMMING Scottish divine 1807 - 1881

Four cats drinking tea on a Christmas card
Four cats drinking tea and chatting on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Man welcoming chefs, smiling

Austria, Vienna, Portrait of Franz Peter Schubert
Wilhelm August Rieder (1796-1880), Portrait of Franz Peter Schubert (Vienna, 1797-1828), Austrian composer, 1875. Detail

Arthur Rackham / St Ives
ARTHUR RACKHAM English illustrator: self-portrait in his own illustration to As I was going to St Ives Date: 1867 - 1939

French Painter Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Dressed Up As A Clown (With Footit Hat) C
1642498 French Painter Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Dressed Up As A Clown (With Footit Hat) C

Reverend James Mitton (oil on canvas)
1128109 Reverend James Mitton (oil on canvas) by English School, (19th century); 91x71 cm; Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, West Yorkshire

Schubert, c1820s, (1907). Creator: Unknown
Schubert, c1820s, (1907). Portrait of Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828). After a lithograph by Josef Kriehuber in the Austrian National Library, Vienna

Picture No. 12020812
Dog, English Bulldog - adult and puppies wearing Christmas hats and sunglasses. Digital manipulation Date:

Portrait of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Found in the Collection of State Central M. Glinka Museum of Music, Moscow

Plausible, 1902. Artist: Spy
Plausible, 1902. Mr Justice Swinfen Eady, British lawyer and judge. Eady (1851-1919) became a QC in 1893 and a High Court Judge in 1901. He served as Master of the Rolls from 1918-1919

Ostia Antica. Theater. Italy

Leaflet, London Sketch Club Smoker, March 1935
Leaflet advertising a London Sketch Club Smoker (smoking party), taking place on Friday 29 March 1935 at a venue in Marylebone Road, London NW1, with pictures from 6.30

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809-1865)
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865). French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. Colored engraving

Ms Fr 1537 f. 58v Illustration from Chants Royaux sur la Conception Couronnee
BAL41826 Ms Fr 1537 f.58v Illustration from Chants Royaux sur la Conception Couronnee du Puy de Rouan, depicting the choir singing the Gloria, conducted by Jean Ockeghem (1410-97)

Austria, Vienna, Portrait of Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Portrait of Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert (Vienna, 1797 - 1828), 1825. Detail

Hugh Owen Thomas, Welsh surgeon C016 / 6299
Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891), Welsh surgeon. Thomas is known as the father of orthopaedic surgery

Safety glasses. Safety glasses are usually made with shatter-resistant plastic lenses to protect the eye from flying debris. The sort seen here are often used in science laboratories

Forty Winks by C. E. Wilson
A dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt

Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904), Russian writer of short stories and plays. He was also a physician

Spectacles Sheep - lamb, close-up of the head
ME-1513 Spectacles Sheep - lamb, close-up of the head Johan De Meester Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Georges Duhamel / Manuel
GEORGES DUHAMEL French writer

Rudyard Kipling
English writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Dog Reading by Pidding
A learned grandfather amuses his grandchildren by teaching the dog to read. The dog, wearing spectacles & smoking a pipe, sits on a stool to read a newspaper

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Spectacles: A Glimpse into the World of Art, Music, and Literature" Step into a world where spectacles transcend their mere function as eyewear and become portals to creativity, intellect, and beauty. From the vibrant strokes of Pat Martino's guitar in 2009 to Alan John Ainsworth's mesmerizing artwork capturing this musical genius, these spectacles offer a glimpse into the soul-stirring power of art. In Margaret Olley and William Dobell's masterpiece "Painting People" from 1965, we witness how these spectacles allow us to see beyond the surface and delve deep into human emotions. The barrister in full swing reminds us that even within the confines of law they can provide clarity and insight. Nadia-Juliette Boulanger, the French music teacher whose talent shaped countless musicians' lives, dons her own pair as she imparts knowledge with passion. These lenses symbolize not only her expertise but also her unwavering dedication to nurturing artistic brilliance. Tennyson gazes through his iconic round frames captured by Vanity Fair's Ape—a reminder that even literary giants seek inspiration through their spectacled lens. Gustav Mahler's photographic portrait showcases Vienna's cultural heritage while highlighting how these simple accessories bridge gaps between time periods. A sporting lawyer featured in Vanity Fair brings a touch of humor to our exploration—his colorful spectacle frames mirroring his vibrant personality. As sunset paints Almyros Beach on Corfu Island with breathtaking hues, we realize that nature itself wears its own majestic pair for all who care to observe. Blackpool Entertainment comes alive under neon lights reflected in mirrored sunglasses—an emblematic representation of joyous moments shared amongst friends or strangers alike. Anthony Trollope peers through his glasses as he pens tales that have stood the test of time—a testament to how these small objects can shape literary legacies.