Spanish Ladies mb-code IOM_MNH_1973_0070 A crossing-sweeper clearing the street

A crossing-sweeper clearing the street for a fashionably dressed woman

Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts with other artists

The Pferdeschwemme (horse well)

George Peacock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818

(a play on words as gunpowder is also a kind of tea

Spanish Ladies mb-code IOM_MNH_1973_0070 A crossing-sweeper clearing the street'Spanish Ladies', 19th century, (1930). Illustration from The Painter of Victorian Life, a study of Constantin Guys with an introduction and a translation of Baudelaire's Peintre de la Vie Moderne, by P G Konody, (The Studio Ltd, London, 1930). From the collection of the British Museum.