Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

Just found these lovely images of Dessert Services, circa 1880s, showing patterned plates & cake stands, perfect for #AfternoonTeaWeek. By Allbut & Daniel, Illustrated Catalogue of China, Glass, Earthenware, Lamps, etc, pattern book of Silber & Fleming (trademark AMS) @Mary_Evans

Our Collection of the Week is Ros Fraser, photos taken by her dad of her mum Rene when they lived on a boat in the 1930s, usually on the Norfolk Broads. Rene looks totally cool in a chic, breezy 1930s way & this is one of our FAVE pics in the library https://t.co/JcuhvkY0KJ

#otd 1986, HRH Princess Anne rode Gulfland to win the 3.45 at Redcar; her first victory as a jockey. In our #archives, we have this great illustration of her looking delighted at her win by John Ireland © The Lennard Publishing Collection @Mary_Evans #RoyalFamily #racing

I say, the summer hols are here, so let's have a dip! This fabulous illustrated front cover of Boy's Own Paper from July 1948 shows boys doing exactly that and enjoying themselves in the swimming pool. Courtesy of The Land of Lost Content Collection @Mary_Evans #summer #holidays

Oh Mucha, we love you muchly. Alfonse Mucha, artist & leading light of the art nouveau movement, was born #OTD in 1860 in Ivancice, now part of the Czech Republic.

Don't panic!! #otd 1940, the Local Defence Volunteers were renamed The Home Guard by Winston Churchill. Members of the LDV in Charlwood, Surrey, stand armed with shotguns ready to repel any invaders. Photos in The Bystander, © Illustrated London News Ltd @Mary_Evans

Happy birthday to Graham Gooch, OBE, former English first-class cricketer who captained Essex & England. In a career spanning 30 yrs, he became the highest run scorer of all time, with 67,057 runs across 1st class games. Cartoon by John Ireland ©The Lennard Publishing Collection

Happy 81st Birthday to Terence Stamp, born in Stepney, east London #OTD in 1938. Scenes from three of his films, Far From the Madding Crowd (1968), Link (1986) and Poor Cow (1967) all from the @StudiocanalUK archive, exclusively represented by us

Ground Swell, 1939, by American realist painter #EdwardHopper who was born #OTD in 1882, in Upper Nyack, New York

'The Last, the very Last lottery....all lotteries will end forever'.
Beautifully ornate engraving declaring that positively the last lottery was being drawn #otd 1826.
Until 1994.
Mayson Beeton Collection/Historic England Archive © Historic England Archive @Mary_Evans