Bills Gallery

Two Puffins and a coastal landscape

Two puffins set in to the border framing this coastal scene of a rocky coastline with a lighthouse stop the high cliffs. Airbrush and watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

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Atmospheric, Bills, Birds, Cliff Top, Cliffs, Coast, Coastal, Colourful, Greensmith, Historical, History, Landscape, Malcolm, Misty, Opuffins, Ricky, Sea, Sea Gulls, Sea Side, Shore, Waves

The vapours, or the day of memories

Les vapeurs, the day of memories. A woman drinks tea on the sofa while her maid picks up bills strewn over the floor. Kind husband, would you heal the painful nerves of your wife? Then let her spend as she wishes. She charges you only to pay for memories. Illustration by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Les vapeurs, the day of memories. A woman drinks tea on the sofa while her maid picks up bills strewn over the floor. Kind husband, would you heal the painful nerves of your wife? Then let her spend as she wishes. She charges you only to pay for memories. Illustration by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Date:

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Col Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne - Papers

Papers relating to Col Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne's military career and family life, 1930-1931.Including: letters relating to his marriage settlement, February-April 1930; papers and bills relating to dances at their home in Draycott Place, March-April 1930; roster listing Thorne as Field Officer in Brigade Waiting for May; programme for 3rd Bn Small Arms Meeting, Pirbright, May 1930; correspondence with old school on the Eton Land Fund, May 1930-July 1931; telegram and newspaper cutting on successful involvement in the Turf Club Tournament, Le Touquet; WO Memorandum on the Committee for the revision of Infantry Training Vol II; press cuttings relating to the march of 3rd Bn to Wellington Barracks; programme for presentation of colours to Eton College Officer Training Corps by the King; secret memo appointing Thorne General Services Officer 1, London District on mobilisation; papers relating to handing over of command of the Battalion to Maj W S Pilcher and Thorne's place as a student on the 5th Course at the Imperial Defence College, January 1931; letters and papers relating to his appointment as Colonel and transference to half pay, May -September 1931; correspondence relating to his appointment as British Military Attache, Berlin, including FO memoranda and notes, October-December 1931.Associated with 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards, Eton College Officer Training Corps and Imperial Defence College. Date: 1930

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