Languages posters & prints

Hexaglot traveller's dictionary Melchiorre Sessa

The Institution of Languages German School

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

The Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Mpscow Anonymous

A Professor of Strong Languages Alfred Thompson

Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Language of Flowers, 1885 George Dunlop Leslie

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

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

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

Portuguese Language Propaganda Poster Anonymous

Convent Walls in Mtskheta with the Georgian Language Inscription Anonymous

Schubert and the language of birds, 2000 Frances Broomfield

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

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

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

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

Map of the Island of Utopia and its Alphabet English School

Balaguer, Victor (1824-1901). Politician and writer in Catalan and Spanish languages Anonymous

Spelling game. England, 1845 Unknown

First communication with the natives of Boothia Felix William Say

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

Hyacinth Kate Greenaway

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

18th-Century Illustration of Hand Gestures for Counting Anonymous

Harmonia Macrocosmica Andreµ Cellarius

Harmonia Macrocosmica Andreµ Cellarius

A page from the Vienna manuscript of Zapothec origin Anonymous

Planisphµrium Sive Mundi Totius Tychonis Plano: Braheum Structura Ex Hypothesi Brahei in Delineata Andreµ Cellarius