Translator posters & prints

Hexaglot traveller's dictionary Melchiorre Sessa

Sir Theodore Martin, author and translator Anonymous

Charles Baudelaire, influential French poet, critic and translator Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

Athanase Auger French School

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

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

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

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

Portrait of William Huggins, translator of Ariosto, 1760 Thomas Major

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

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

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

Sebastian Brandt English School

The First Translation of the Bible into English Ford Madox Brown

Landscape with St. Jerome who translates the Bible Carlo Losi

Burgundian scribe (Portrait of Jean Miélot, secretary, author and translator of Philip the Good, Duk Anonymous

Of carde players and dysers (after) German School

Of folys that can nat kepe secrete theyr owne counsell (after) German School

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

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

Of the ende of worldly honour and power and of folys that trust therein (after) German School

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

Thomas Young, English physicist and Egyptologist GH Adcock

Of hym that fyndeth ought of another mannys it nat restorynge to the owner (after) German School

Thomas Linacre, MD, 1847 H Cook

Of the way of felycyte and godnes, and of the payne to come unto sinners (after) German School

Leaf from a Persian translation of the Ramayana Indian School

The First Translation of the Bible into English Ford Madox Brown

Of folysshe Fesycyans and unlerned that onely folowe paractyke knowynge nought of the speculacyon of theyr faculte (after) German School

Remains of Shelton Hall Anonymous

Portrait of Delille, 1769 Joseph Ducreux