Explanation posters & prints

Face to Face: Effie Blount's Explanation Anonymous

The Popular Dream Book, titlepage, c.1883 Anonymous

Explanation of principles of physics, 1725 Unknown

Kepler's explanation of the structure of the planetary system, 1619 Unknown

The Dreamer's True Friend, 1874 English School

Descartes' explanation of vision, 1692 Unknown

The Frontispiece and Its Explanation William Hogarth

The Crimean War: Lieutenant Montagu O'Reilly Explaining His Sketch of Sebastopol to the Sultan 1854 Anonymous

Drawing of Early Medieval Monks Conversing Anonymous

The five orders of perriwigs' 1761 William Hogarth

An Afternoon Visit Otto Piltz

Plan for the proposed London Docks, Stepney Anonymous

An Historical Sketch or Map, of Goa with an account of the present state, India Anonymous

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Introducing the Budget in the House of Commons, London Anonymous

Harvey demonstrating circulation of the blood to the College of Physicians, c1628 (1870) Unknown

Portrait of Parents, 1832 Pietro Fabris

Saint Paul Etienne (1696-1775) Parrocel

Plan of the River Thames showing the London Docks and the Isle of Dogs, 1797 Anonymous

Alexander Hamilton Posing in Office Anonymous

G.E.R. Heiberg French School

Bilston - a section of Bradley Mine Francis Eginton

Drivers at the JCC 200 Mile Race, Brooklands, Surrey, 1921 Bill Brunell

The Dreamer's Sure Guide, 1876 English School

'Vespertilio Soricinus' [Greater spear-nosed bat] Johann Jacob Bylaert

Map of India, 1803 English School

Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913 Leonard Raven-Hill

The Conversion of the Magdalene, c.1598 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Shilling Day at the International Exhibition Anonymous

Artifiiosi et Cvriosi Moti Anonymous

How to Cut Off One's Head, and To Lay it on a Platter, 1584 English School

Pythagoras, Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, 6th century BC (1833) Unknown

Copernican system of the universe Anonymous

Rama Trying to Justify to Sita his Repudiation of her, c.1595 Mughal School

'The Stage's Glory' Anonymous

Reflections of the sun on water Leonardo Da Vinci

Diagram of a Horse in Motion Eadweard Muybridge