The request posters & prints

The Request sampler Elizabeth Musto

Emblem with priest and man praying to God and the saints with their request to be allowed to live in... Hendrik Aertssens

Interior of the Guildhall Chapel, City of London M Springsguth

A note from Sterne to Garrick, and a view of Sterne's house in Yorkshire Anonymous

Wanted Poster for Billy the Kid Anonymous

'The Two Patriotic Duchesses on their canvass requesting the favour of an early poll,' 1784 Thomas Rowlandson

Pickwick Papers with a Countenance Greatly Mollified by the Softening Influence of Tobacco Requested Him to 'Fire Away' Anonymous

Letter from Mary Queen of Scots to Queen Elizabeth I, Sheffield Mary Queen of Scots

Letter to Francis I regarding a mosque in Jerusalem, September 1528 Suleyman I the Magnificent

Brothers in law! or the finishing flourish of a City officer!! Anonymous

At the Restaurant Benjamin Eugene Fichel

The Window, 2013 Julie Held

Prayer in the Mosque, 1871 Jean-Leon Gerome

Queen Elizabeth And Shakespeare Anonymous

A Critical Audience on the Question of 'Step-Dancing', c.1870s English School

The Clairvoyant, c1839-1877 Gustave Courbet

To Decide the Question, 1897 John George Brown

Letter from Queen Mary I to Lord Seymour of Sudeley, 4th June 1547 Mary I

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Twelfth night: The daughter of the merchant…, c. 1560 Unknown

The Spirit. 'Thou comest in such a questionable Shape' James Scott

They rode up to a stately palace Stephen Reid

The Lion and the Mouse: Sweet Mercy is Nobility's True Badge (The Plea) Rebecca Solomon

Juno cestum a Venere postulat William Wynne Ryland

Durga Killing the Demon Mahisha, 1800s Unknown

Return of the Prodigal Son, after 1600. Jacopo Palma

Sir Theodore Martin, author and translator Anonymous

Equestrian Portrait of the King Louis XVI Jean Baptiste François Carteaux

Mirror of Holiness of Father Jerome Xavier, 1602-1604 Unknown

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Fifteenth night: The wolf advises the lion…, 1558-1560 Unknown

Ticket for the Leverian Museum, Albion Place, Southwark, London William Skelton

The Bath Gaston de Latouche

Descent of the Ganges, c. 1700-10 Unknown

The Virgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine, c. 1518-1525 Quentin Massys

The Bottle George Cruikshank

Out of The Race John Tenniel

The Letter Karl the Elder Schweninger