Language learning posters & prints

Bookshop German School

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

Hexaglot traveller's dictionary Melchiorre Sessa

Universal language: the first page of the Bible in Esperanto Anonymous

Children taking English lessons in the Forest of Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany Anonymous

Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology Anonymous

Spelling game. England, 1845 Unknown

The Institution of Languages German School

Cherokee Alphabet American School

Emile Littre, French philosopher and lexicographer Anonymous

Conversing by Signs, 1837 Alfred Jacob Miller

The Alphabet, Jean and Gabrielle Pierre Auguste Renoir

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

Alphabet nesting boxes J A Crandall

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

Learning in the Forest of Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany Anonymous

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

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

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

Baby's First Lesson Book Illustration Florence Curtis Elizabeth Choate

Uhusiano Charlie Millar

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London Newton & Co

The Latin Class, 1869 Ludwig Passini

Boy and Girl Learning 1873 Anonymous

Flavus the Grammarian, 16th Century French School

The Epigram, a study, 1890 Franz Xaver Simm

The Interior of a Study with a Philosopher Willem Schellinks

The New Learning Frank Cadogan Cowper

Interior of a schoolroom at Peking University, China CH Graves

Illustration of the Solar System and distances of the planets from the sun Anonymous

16th-Century Italian Book #2 Jennifer Kennard

Letter of Introduction Howard Pyle

Grammar: a young woman standing in a decorated interior holding an open book in her lef…, 1633-35 Gilles Rousselet

A Learned Cairene Anonymous

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) Anonymous

Se-quo-yah or George Guess, 1828 Charles Bird King