Declined Collection

The Lay of Wiry Jane, by Percy Macquoid (chromolitho)
1047848 The Lay of Wiry Jane, by Percy Macquoid (chromolitho) by Macquoid, Percy (1852-1925); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Lay of Wiry Jane, by Percy Macquoid)

How I obtained Two Curates, and how I lost Two Daughters (engraving)
1062193 How I obtained Two Curates, and how I lost Two Daughters (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: How I obtained Two Curates)

Interviewing their Member - Lease Refused, 1879 (oil on canvas)
476656 Interviewing their Member - Lease Refused, 1879 (oil on canvas) by Nicol, Erskine (1825-1904); 105.4x142.3 cm; Private Collection; Photo eChristies Images; Scottish, out of copyright

Declined with thanks. Illustration shows a huge Uncle Sam getting a new outfit made at the McKinley and Company National Tailors with President McKinley taking the measurements

Suzanne Curchod Necker
SUZANNE CURCHOD NECKER French writer & salon hostess, wife of statesman, mother of Mme de Stael; previously betrothed to Gibbon but their relationship declined & fell. Date: 1739 - 1794

Warwick Castle East Front 1752 Pen brown ink
Artokoloro

Crouching Dragon Plum Tree Kameido series Array
Artokoloro

Deposition, Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1613 - 1622

A Spitalfields silk weaver: This man could earn 70p in a good week, but by this date the industry had declined and work was hard to come by

Hans Sachs (1494-1576) Mastersinger of Nuremberg, composer, playwright, poet and shoemaker. One of the leading figures in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, the opera by Richard Wagner

Richard Monckton Milnes, first Baron Houghton (1809-1885), English poet and Conservative politician. Friend of Tennyson, Arthur Hallam and Thackeray, and early champion of Swinburne

Arctic ice minimum extent, 2012
Arctic ice minimum extent. Satellite image showing the Arctic polar ice cap at its annual minimum extent on 16th September 2012

Arctic ice minimum extent, 2013 C017 / 3623
Arctic ice minimum extent. Satellite image showing the Arctic polar ice cap at its annual minimum extent on 12th September 2013

Arctic ice minimum extent, 2012 C014 / 2330
Arctic ice minimum extent. Diagram showing the Arctic polar ice cap at its annual minimum extent on 16th September 2012. The Arctic sea ice (white) reaches a minimum in September

Artic sea ice coverage, 1980 C014 / 4710
Artic sea ice coverage, 1980. Map showing the changes in Arctic sea ice coverage from 1st November 1979 to 31st January 1980

Open Northwest Passage, 2012 C014 / 0113
Open Northwest Passage. Satellite image of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago taken on the 3rd August 2012. Sea ice has receded enough to open up the route

Open Northwest Passage, 2012 C014 / 0112
Open Northwest Passage. Satellite image of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago taken on the 3rd August 2012. Sea ice has receded enough to open up the route

Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1884-1954), as a member of the Borussia Corps of Bonn University in about 1904

Archibald Marshall
ARCHIBALD MARSHALL probably a writer, but one whose fame has declined to such a degree that none of our reference books thinks him worthy of mention

Sir James Ware
SIR JAMES WARE Irish statesman and antiquarian, auditor-general who declined a peerage with his autograph

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