Ensayos posters & prints

Ensayos. (Trials.), 1796-1797 Francisco de Goya

Trials, plate 60 of 'Los caprichos', 1799 Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

Pllate 60 from 'Los Caprichos': Trials, 1799 Francisco Goya

Assayer testing samples of gold or silver Anonymous

Title page for: P.J. Kasteleijn, Essay on the art to be always cheerful. In four songs Albrecht Borchers

Essay on Stone with Brush and Scraper: Playing at Hoops on the Castle Terrace, 1851 Adolph von Menzel

Illustration for the essay 'A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis' by Charles Lamb, 1899 Charles Edmund Brock

'Lord Macaulay', famous historian & essayist Rischgitz Collection

King and court Gustave Dore

Illustration from 'Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching...', 1792 Rev. William Gilpin

Scenes from 'Essays in Idleness', late 1700s-early 1800s Matsumura Goshun

Prize offered in Scientific American, October 1920, for an essay on Einstein's theory of relativity Unknown

The Essay, c.1903 Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky

Scenes from 'Essays in Idleness', late 1700s-early 1800s Matsumura Goshun

A Senator of Antwerp Anthony van Dyck

Aldini's galvanic experiments G.M.

Young blind men working at a printing press Julie Ribault

Essais de gravure à l'eau forte par Alexandre Calame, III, pl. 16 Alexandre Calame

Scenes from 'Essays in Idleness', late 1700s-early 1800s Matsumura Goshun

Essais de gravure à l'eau forte par Alexandre Calame, I, pl. 21 Alexandre Calame

Essay on Stone with Brush and Scraper: The Bear Pit, 1851 Adolph von Menzel

Essay on Stone with Brush and Scraper: Woman Reading at the Fireside, 1851 Adolph von Menzel

Essay on Stone with Brush and Scraper: Chase on the Winding Staircase, 1851 Adolph von Menzel

Essay on Stone with Brush and Scraper: The Convoy of Prisoners through a Woods, 1851 Adolph von Menzel

Essay on Stone with Brush and Scraper, 1851 Adolph von Menzel

Portrait of Boris Souvarine, 1895 – 1984 Anonymous

Charles Lamb, English essayist Anonymous

First issue of 'The Tatler, 1709 English School

Woman with a Parasol (Essai de figure en plein air (vers la droite) Anonymous

Receuil dessais lithographiques: Essai topographique, 1816 Darmet

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist and theologian, early 19th century Unknown

Leyden jar and Pieter van Musschenbroeck's electrical experiment of 1746 (1765) Unknown

Ferdinand Magellan, 19th Century English School

Cover Illustration for Story Jules Vernes

John Ruskin (1819-1900), English critic, author, poet and artist Anonymous

Portrait of a Essai Master and his Wife, half-length, c.1561-7 Nicolas Neufchatel