Translator posters & prints

Sir Theodore Martin, author and translator Anonymous

Apparatus for translating three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional drawings Albrecht Dürer

Portrait of the author and translator Matvei Begichev, 1757 Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov

Hindu and Muslim scholars translate the Mahabharata from Sanskrit into Persian Indian School

Friedrich (Fyodor) Fiedler, translator of Russian poetry, c1906 Unknown

Frontispiece to the English translation of Sebastian Brandt's 'The Ship of Fools', edition published in 1874 (after) German School

Meeting of the 72 translators of the law on the orders of King Ptolemy Philadelphus Pieter Mortier

Sebastian Brandt English School

Hexaglot traveller's dictionary Melchiorre Sessa

The Translation of Josaphat's Relics to a Church By a King and Procession Follower of Hans Schilling

The translator reading the Latin text in the library, ca 1460 Anonymous

Charles Baudelaire, influential French poet, critic and translator Anonymous

Alexandra Beketova-Blok, Russian author and translator, with her pet dog, early 19th century Karl August Fischer

An extract from the original manuscript of Pope's translation of Homer Anonymous

Portrait of Nicolaas Willem op den Hooff, Physician and Translator in Amsterdam Jan Maurits Quinkhard

The Six Days of Creation Italian School

Sketch for 'Wycliffe Reading His Translation', 1847 Ford Madox Brown

Of hym that wyll nat folowe nor ensue good counsell, and necessary from an edition published in 1874

Landscape with St. Jerome who translates the Bible Carlo Losi

Of the despysynge of mysfortune (after) German School

Of them that forceth or careth for the bacbytynge of lewde people (after) German School

Of folys without prouysyon (after) German School

Of them that dyspyse euerlastynge ioye, and settyth thynges transytory before thynges eternall and euerlastynge (after) German School

Of newe fassions and disgised Garmentes (after) German School

Of folysshe beggers and of theyr vanytees (after) German School

Of the sermon or erudicion of wysdome bothe to wyse men and folys (after) German School

Of inprofytable and vayne prayers vowes and peticyons (after) German School

Of hym that is jelous ouer his wyfe and watcheth hir wayes without cause, or euydent tokyn of hir myslyuynge (after) German School

Of pluralitees that is to say of them whiche charge them selfe with many benefycis (after) German School

Of contempt, or dispisynge of holy scripture (after) German School

Of carde players and dysers (after) German School

Of the arrogance and pryde of rude men of the countrey (after) German School

Of them that prolonge from day to day to amende themselfe (after) German School

Martin Luther Translating the Bible, Wartburg Castle, 1521 Eugene Siberdt

Of the erudicion of neglygent faders anenst theyr chyldren (after) German School

Here begynneth the foles and first inprofytable bokes (after) German School