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Little Wooden Midshipman shop sign, c.1750 (wood)

3071350 Little Wooden Midshipman shop sign, c.1750 (wood) by English School, (18th century); 85.5x35x29 cm; Charles Dickens Museum, London, UK; (add.info.: From the 1790s the Little Wooden Midshipman was the well-loved symbol for William HeatherA? nautical shop and academy at 157 Leadenhall Street, later known as Nories'. Dickens was so fond of the Midshipman that he gave him a starring role in Dombey and Son as the sign of Sol Gil, nautical equipment maker. He also describes him in The Uncommerical Traveller. The shop at 156 Minories was indeed bombed and later demolished. In 1946, the firm loaned the Midshipman to the Charles Dickens Museum); A© Charles Dickens Museum ; A© Charles Dickens Museum, London; English, out of copyright

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Illustration from Julie or the New Heloise, c.1852 (colour litho)

955429 Illustration from Julie or the New Heloise, c.1852 (colour litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Julie, or the New Heloise (French: Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise) is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published in 1761 by Marc-Michel Rey in Amsterdam. The original edition was entitled Lettres de deux amans habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes ("Letters from two lovers living in a small town at the foot of the Alps"). After Markl.)

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How Queen Guenever made her a nun, illustration from Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, 1893-94 (litho)

DGC398010 How Queen Guenever made her a nun, illustration from Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, 1893-94 (litho) by Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-98); Private Collection; (add.info.: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 - 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. ); Prismatic Pictures

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