The request posters & prints

The Request sampler Elizabeth Musto

Emblem with priest and man praying to God and the saints with their request to be allowed to live in... Hendrik Aertssens

Interior of the Guildhall Chapel, City of London M Springsguth

A note from Sterne to Garrick, and a view of Sterne's house in Yorkshire Anonymous

Wanted Poster for Billy the Kid Anonymous

'The Two Patriotic Duchesses on their canvass requesting the favour of an early poll,' 1784 Thomas Rowlandson

Pickwick Papers with a Countenance Greatly Mollified by the Softening Influence of Tobacco Requested Him to 'Fire Away' Anonymous

Letter to Francis I regarding a mosque in Jerusalem, September 1528 Suleyman I the Magnificent

Letter from Mary Queen of Scots to Queen Elizabeth I, Sheffield Mary Queen of Scots

The Bottle George Cruikshank

Brothers in law! or the finishing flourish of a City officer!! Anonymous

To Decide the Question, 1897 John George Brown

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Twelfth night: The daughter of the merchant…, c. 1560 Unknown

Queen Elizabeth And Shakespeare Anonymous

Letter from Queen Mary I to Lord Seymour of Sudeley, 4th June 1547 Mary I

A Critical Audience on the Question of 'Step-Dancing', c.1870s English School

The Lion and the Mouse: Sweet Mercy is Nobility's True Badge (The Plea) Rebecca Solomon

The Spirit. 'Thou comest in such a questionable Shape' James Scott

Prayer in the Mosque, 1871 Jean-Leon Gerome

They rode up to a stately palace Stephen Reid

Sir Theodore Martin, author and translator Anonymous

Durga Killing the Demon Mahisha, 1800s Unknown

The Conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortés Anonymous

The Quest of the Golden Girls, 1896 Ethel Reed

The conquest of the fort, Notre-Dame de Lorette, Artois, France Lucien Jonas

Return of the Prodigal Son, after 1600. Jacopo Palma

Ticket for the Leverian Museum, Albion Place, Southwark, London William Skelton

Mirror of Holiness of Father Jerome Xavier, 1602-1604 Unknown

Descent of the Ganges, c. 1700-10 Unknown

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Fifteenth night: The wolf advises the lion…, 1558-1560 Unknown

The Conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortés Anonymous

The Conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortés Anonymous

Juno cestum a Venere postulat William Wynne Ryland

Out of The Race John Tenniel

The Virgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine, c. 1518-1525 Quentin Massys

The Sofa, ca. 1894-96 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec