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

Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology Anonymous

A Professor of Strong Languages Alfred Thompson

Portuguese Language Propaganda Poster Anonymous

Emile Littre, French philosopher and lexicographer Anonymous

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

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

The Language of Flowers, 1885 George Dunlop Leslie

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

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

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

Cherokee Alphabet American School

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

Schubert and the language of birds, 2000 Frances Broomfield

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

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

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Newton & Co

The Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Mpscow Anonymous

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

Uhusiano Charlie Millar

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

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

Convent Walls in Mtskheta with the Georgian Language Inscription Anonymous

Conversing by Signs, 1837 Alfred Jacob Miller

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

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

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

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

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

18th-Century Illustration of Hand Gestures for Counting Anonymous

The Latin Class, 1869 Ludwig Passini

Bookshop German School

Spelling game. England, 1845 Unknown

Hyacinth Kate Greenaway