Language posters & prints

Hexaglot traveller's dictionary Melchiorre Sessa

Universal language: the first page of the Bible in Esperanto Anonymous

The Institution of Languages German School

Desiderius Erasmus, 'Restorer of the Latin language' Dutch School

The Language of Flowers, 1885 George Dunlop Leslie

A Professor of Strong Languages Alfred Thompson

Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology Anonymous

Illustration of Native American Communicating in Sign Language to Black Cavalryman Frederic Remington

Georgian-language Manuscript, 12th-13th century Anonymous master

Title Page for Volume 1 of An American Dictionary of the English Language Dictionary, 1828 Anonymous

The Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Mpscow Anonymous

Portuguese Language Propaganda Poster Anonymous

Illuminated manuscript of the Georgian-language Gospels, 11th-12th century Anonymous master

Illuminated manuscript of the Georgian-language Gospels, 11th-12th century Anonymous master

Schubert and the language of birds, 2000 Frances Broomfield

Language lesson on daffodils at Oak Lodge School for Deaf Girls, London, 1908 Unknown

Illuminated manuscript of the Georgian-language Gospels, Between 1201 and 1300 Anonymous master

Emile Littre, French philosopher and lexicographer Anonymous

Abbe Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard Teaching Children Sign Language, 1806 Jerome Martin Langlois

Russian language lesson of Empress Catherine II, 1894 Baron Mikhail Petrovich Klodt

Folio from Mantiq al-Tayr (The Language of the Birds), by Attar, c1600. Habib Allah

An European Gentleman with his Moonshee, or Native Professor of Languages Charles D'Oyly

Portrait of Henri Cordier, teacher at the School of Oriental Languages, 1883 Gustave Caillebotte

Folio from Mantiq al-Tayr (The Language of the Birds) by Attar, ca. 1600 Habib Allah

Convent Walls in Mtskheta with the Georgian Language Inscription Anonymous

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Newton & Co

Uhusiano Charlie Millar

Conversing by Signs, 1837 Alfred Jacob Miller

Classroom scene, Hugh Myddelton School, Finsbury, London, 1906 Unknown

Neopolitans gesturing to a Deaf Mute Person; Gesti Mutoloparlanti Napolitani, 1815 Saviero Xavier della Gatta

Spelling game. England, 1845 Unknown

Hyacinth Kate Greenaway

Interior Of Deaf And Dumb Asylum Anonymous

First communication with the natives of Boothia Felix William Say

Cherokee Alphabet American School

The Latin Class, 1869 Ludwig Passini