Translators posters & prints

Sir Theodore Martin, author and translator Anonymous

Hexaglot traveller's dictionary Melchiorre Sessa

Meeting of the 72 translators of the law on the orders of King Ptolemy Philadelphus Pieter Mortier

Hindu and Muslim scholars translate the Mahabharata from Sanskrit into Persian Indian School

Charles Baudelaire, influential French poet, critic and translator Anonymous

Apparatus for translating three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional drawings Albrecht Dürer

Friedrich (Fyodor) Fiedler, translator of Russian poetry, c1906 Unknown

Portrait of the author and translator Matvei Begichev, 1757 Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov

Sebastian Brandt English School

Frontispiece to the English translation of Sebastian Brandt's 'The Ship of Fools', edition published in 1874 (after) German School

Alexandra Beketova-Blok, Russian author and translator, with her pet dog, early 19th century Karl August Fischer

Of hym that wyll nat folowe nor ensue good counsell, and necessary from an edition published in 1874

Martin Luther Translating the Bible, Wartburg Castle, 1521 Eugene Siberdt

Of newe fassions and disgised Garmentes (after) German School

Of carde players and dysers (after) German School

Of folys that can nat kepe secrete theyr owne counsell (after) German School

Here begynneth the foles and first inprofytable bokes (after) German School

Of the despysynge of mysfortune (after) German School

Of the mutabylyte of fortune (after) German School

Of them that dyspyse euerlastynge ioye, and settyth thynges transytory before thynges eternall and euerlastynge (after) German School

Of euyl Counsellours, Juges and men of lawe (after) German School

Of enuyous folys (after) German School

Of the sermon or erudicion of wysdome bothe to wyse men and folys (after) German School

Of folys without prouysyon (after) German School

Of them that correct other and yet them selfe do nought and synne worse than they whom they so correct (after) German School

Of folysshe beggers and of theyr vanytees (after) German School

Of impacient folys that wyll nat abyde correccion (after) German School

Of them that prolonge from day to day to amende themselfe (after) German School

Of folys oppressyd with theyr owne foly from an edition published in 1874

Of hym that nought can and nought wyll lerne, and seyth moche, lytell berynge away, I mene nat theuys (after) German School

Of folys that despyse God (after) German School

Of them that folysshly speke agaynst the workes of God from an edition published in 1874

Of hym that fyndeth ought of another mannys it nat restorynge to the owner (after) German School

The translator reading the Latin text in the library, ca 1460 Anonymous

Of the over great and chargeable curyosyte of men (after) German School

Of great stryuers in the lawe for thynges of nought (after) German School