Dramatic Collection (#2)

The Quinlan Opera Company
Promotional postcard for The Quinlan Opera Company. Billed as The Greatest Touring Company Ever Organized. Touring to the Royal Hippodrome, Liverpool, 2nd October 1911 Figures, left to right

St. Vitus Cathedral - Prague, Czech Republic Date: circa 1930s

Toxostoma rufum, brown thrasher
Plate 116 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Sterna antillarum, least tern
Plate 319 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Unhabitable by Charles Pears
Painting by maritime artist, Charles Pears of a warship, visible sailing over the horizon under a dramatic sky of billowing clouds. Presumably the ship is named Unhabitable

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
A portrait of Greta Garbo on her yacht off Catalina Island. Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm and was spotted whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz

Draped Balenciaga Gown
Gown in mauve jersey by Balenciaga of Paris which makes dramatic use of classical style drapery. Worn with long evening gloves

Mouse on Train 1947
At Bologna a woman is frightened by a mouse in a railway carriage and falls out. Luckily, she isn t seriously hurt

Grand Canyon National Park fr. Terrace of Grand Canyon Lodge
Grand Canyon National Park from the Terrace of the Grand Canyon Lodge - North Rim. Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Happy New Year Costume Ball 31st December 1925
Black and white advertisement in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 28th November 1925 for the Happy New Year Costume Ball at the Albert Hall on 21st December 1925

Ramsgate lifeboat men on board stranded ship
Ramsgate lifeboat men with passengers on board a ship caught on the Goodwin Sands. Date: 19th century

Aurora at Bossekop
Dramatic spectacle of the Aurora Borealis seen from Bossekop, Finmark (Norway) Date: 19 January 1839

Lilian Norton Nordica - American opera singer
Lilian Norton Nordica (1857-1914), American opera singer (soprano) at the piano. Date: 1890

Unruly Oval cricket crowd
Impatient cricket spectators gather near the square at the Oval during an interruption in play in the match between Surrey and Yorkshire

The first authentic stage Tess
Photographs of the first production of Thomas Hardys own dramatic version of his novel Tess of the d Urbervilles on 26th November 1924 by the Hardy Players at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester

Breaking Waves
Dramatic waves breaking over the promenade at Seaford, Sussex, England. Date: 1960s

Sport & Country nameplate with racecourse
Nameplate for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sport & Country magazine from 6th July 1955, featuring a colourful racecourse illustration. Date: 6th July 1955

Levitation Seance
At a dramatic seance, one of the sitters finds himself levitated while all kinds of trickery is in progress

Woollen Swimwear 1940
A radiant young lady poses against a dramatic sky in her stylish two-piece woollen bathing costume in which she would be advised to continuing posing rather than attempt swimming

Guignol in French Park
A dramatic moment in a Guignol performance in a French park : but the blase girl in the foreground has seen it before and knows how it will end

Jamaica / Port Royal / 1865
The dramatic harbour setting of the town of Port Royal, Jamaica

Maiden Castle Hillfort
At 1, 800 ft long, Maiden Castle is one of the largest and most completely excavated Hillforts in Britain

Client: Harvey Nichols - large straw hat - Pamela Minchin
Client: Harvey Nichols - model: Pamela Minchin in a large straw hat - shoot: February 7, 1947 Date: 1947

Bohemian Club (of San Francisco) - Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Club (of San Francisco) Bohemian Grove Open-air Theatre crowd and orchestra during " Low Jinx". Every year, the club hosts a two-week-long (three weekends) camp at Bohemian Grove

Adelaide, South Australia by Night - viewed from Mount Lofty. Date: circa 1930s

Diseases of the Skin - Plate 4. Crusted or Honeycomb Ringworm, Alopecia (hair-loss), Ringworm of the scalp, spotted rose rash, running scab - eczema and Nettle rash. Date: circa 1880s

Diseases of the Skin - Plate 5 - Scabies or Itch, Red Gum Rash or Spotted Heat, Honey Sickness - Honey Scab or Pustular Tetter Impetigo, Shingles

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Towers, Dome of Federal Building
Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - The three fluted towers around the Dome of the Federal Building 1933

Loie Fuller (Mary Louise Fuller) American dancer doing her Serpentintanz or Serpentine Dance - London, March 8th 1912. 1912

Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, at dawn as the sun rises
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, seen at dawn as the sun rises over the North Sea, and with low tide in the Lindisfarne harbour, Northumberland, England Date: 2014

Canary Islands - Pico vienta Date: circa 1920s

Milecastle 39 (Castle Nick) - a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, England. Date: circa 1920s

Miss Doris Beresford - British Actress, sitting and reading an issue of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Date: circa 1911

Oberammergau and peaks of Kofel and Not, Bavaria
Oberammergau, a municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany and the nearby peaks of Kofel and Not

Sergeant Ewart capturing the French eagle at Waterloo
Sergeant Charles Ewart capturing the French 45th Regiment's eagle standard at the Battle of Waterloo - The Bird Catchers, Royal Scots Greys Date: 1815

Halt, Royal Field Artillery in Review Order Date: 1915

Melodrama at the Theatre
Watching Melodrama at the Theatre, by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Date: 1862

Lifeboat rescue, and every soul was saved alive Date: circa 1890

Head of Derwentwater, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: 1910

Healey Dell Viaduct, Rochdale, Greater Manchester
Healey Dell Viaduct in Healey Dell Nature Reserve in the Spodden Valley, on the outskirts or Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England

Photographs showing how cricket is photographed, including match shots, camera and photographer. Captioned, Waiting for hours to take a 1/1000th of a second picture

Ethel Sydney, actress, studio portrait in dramatic pose on chaise longue, with potted aspidistra. Date: 1895

Tilly Losch (1903-1975), also known as Ottilie Herbert, and later Countess of Carnarvon, was an Austrian dancer, actress and painter

Greta Garbo in Mata Hari
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) playing the title role in the 1931 film Mata Hari'. Date: 1931

Racing at Kempton Park
A low-angled shot captures both spectators and competitors at the Easter Saturday horserace at Kempton Park. Date: 1932

Louise Hampton in Late Night Final
British actress Louise Hampton (1881-1954) in a publicity photograph for the play Late Night Final at the Phoenix Theatre. Date: 1931

D. A. Clarke-Smith
British actor D. A. Clarke-Smith (1888-1959) appearing in a variety of guises in the play Queer Fish at the Apollo Theatre. Date: 1931

Cedric Hardwicke in Role
A portrait of the actor Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) playing the role of Edward Moulton-Barrett in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street'

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