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Clowns were a popular subject for Au Bon Marché, and no doubt a favourite with children

The Mufflechop Family c.1830 hand coloured lithographic caricature by Madame E. Dubuisson and published by Pewtress & Ackermann. Dubuisson was a portrait painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy, and whose daughters worked for her in her studio as caricaturists

These are part of a lovely album of photographs taken at Anningsley House (Surrey) in around 1900. It had become a children’s home in 1884, set up by the owner, Mrs Molyneux Goldingham in memory of her late husband. The poses are quite delightful

A lovely six card Peepshow by Martin Engelbrecht c.1750-60, titled on paper wrappers “Popish Chapel”

“The Brummagem Frankenstein” 1866 cartoon by John Tenniel showing the Quaker reformer and Second Reform Bill supporter, John Bright, as a latter day Frankenstein, terrified of the monster he had helped create

William Wynne Ryland 1774 stipple engraving of General Stanwix’s daughter who was lost at sea in 1766. Ryland was later found guilty of forging bills of exchange and was the last person to be hung at Tyburn in August 1783

A typically fantastical watercolour drawing by Joyce Plumstead Land (1907-86) of Lilliputian children picking apples

“The Great Eastern on the Stocks” 1857 coloured lithograph after J.W. Carmichael for the Illustrated London News

I love the graphics on these old Soviet film posters - from a collection just in

A fun trio of French hand coloured lithographic political caricatures by André Gill and Emile Evrard c.1870-71