Fortune Collection (page 9)

Fortune Telling Cards
A sinister gipsy woman, dripping with rings and necklaces, spreads her fortune telling cards across the table... Date: 1970s

Iranian Fortune Teller
The old Iranian fortune teller looks up at her shy, smiling young customer : I see a rich and handsome young man from Tehran... Date: 1930s

PALMISTRY
Cross my palm with silver : a fortune teller reads someones fortune from the palms of their hands. Date: 1930s

Harewood House Hallway
Harewood House, near Leeds, Yorkshire, a stately home built (1759) for the Lascelles family, whose fortune came from haberdashery and Customs work in the West Indies. Date: built 1759 - 1769

Fortune Teller & Cat
A sinister gipsy woman and her scary cat, reading someones fortune with playing cards... Date: 1970s

Fortune Telling Canary
A young woman with a hooked nose, wearing a cloche hat, asks an old gipsy woman if her canary can tell her fortune. Date: early 1930s

Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, London
The Fortune Theatre on Russell Street, Covent Garden, London presenting Fly Away Peter. Date: 1947

Dunderpate speaks to the squire in the coach, asking how he can make his fortune. The squire says he would give a silver crown to stand in the boys shoes for just an hour. Date: 1938

Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of Britain
A cartoon depicting Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of Britain, with upper class people in their best clothes, taking part in some unlikely (for them) fairground activities

Xmas. Lady in moonlight. " Kind Fortune smiles, and she Hath yet in store for thee Some great felicity." - Shakespeare. circa 1902

Fortune chocolates advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Fortune chocolates by Caley of Norwich, whose adverts were always characterised by a couple sharing a box

Mondays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Wednesdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Thursdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Saturdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

D Carleton-Smyth. What is your fortune_
What is your fortune, my pretty maid? My face is my fortune, Sir, she said. 20th century

Marie-Anne Lenormand
MARIE-ANNE LENORMAND French fortune-teller Date: 1772 - 1843

Greek Tripod
A Greek ceremonial tripod, as used by the Oracle at Delphi and elsewhere

I-CHING
Consulting the I-CHING in the elaborately decorated establishment of a Chinese fortune-teller Date: circa 1835

Spanish Fortune Tellere
A Spanish gipsy fortune-teller reads the hand of a bull- fighter as he goes to the corrida Date: 1891

Mme Lenormand Fails
Mme Lenormand sees the futures of her clients, but fails to foresee that she will be arrested at Brussels on a charge of smuggling Date: circa 1820

Pompeii reconstruction
The Temple of Fortune reconstruction in Pompeii Date: 79

Topsy turvy 1854 / Leech
Topsy turvy - or our Antipodes. A reversal of fortune, showing miners being served and waited upon by the upper class

The German allies of WW1
The Kaiser and the leaders of his fellow allies during the First World War, depicted within a lucky four-leaf clover. It was not to prove ultimately very lucky

Fortune teller - Constantinople
A female street fortune teller in Constantinople

Sultan Ahmet Mosque - Feeding the Birds for good luck
In Turkey, birds are sometime released for good luck. These women with their bowls of corn sell the seed which you throw to the birds - this is considered lucky (feeding wild animals)

Fortune-Hunting
Coloured engraving, " Fortune-Hunting" published by H. Humphrey, London, 20 November 1804. HPG/8/2/1 (xli)"

Rosie Dolly and Mortimer Davis
Rosie Dolly (1892-1970) one half of the famous performing American identical twins, The Dolly Sisters, with Mortimer Davis Jnr, known as The Fat Boy

Madagascar - A Sorceror - using Sikidy Divination. The Diviner uses an elaborate system of computation using seeds, which can be seen in this picture

The Fortune Theatre, Cripplegate, London, c. 1840
Engraving showing the exterior of the Fortune Theatre, in St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, sketched in 1840

Fortune chocolates
Full page colour advertisement for Fortune chocolates by Caley of Norwich showing a man in Father Christmas costume presenting his wife with a box

H. M. Stanleys meeting with Forest Pygmies, Central Africa
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-America explorer and journalist, meeting with some forest pygmies, during one of his expeditions to Central Africa

Thomas Guy
Born in 1644, Guy completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament. He moved to London and spent eight years as a booksellers apprentice

A Member of H. M. Stanleys expedition threatening a baggage
Engraving showing a member of Sir Henry Morton Stanleys expedition to find Dr. David Livingstone threatening a baggage porter, Central Africa, 1871

H. M. Stanleys Expedition crossing the Makata Swamp, Central
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanleys expedition crossing the Makata swamp in Central Africa, 1871. In October 1869

Thomas Guys tomb
The tomb of Thomas Guy in the chapel at Guys hospital. Born in 1644, he completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament

Chinese Deity of Fortune
Chinese god of Immortality, to which they sacrifice believing this will bring them good fortune

LOOK AHEAD
Tom sees a group of fortune- tellers and prophesiers coming towards him but refuses to be tempted to look at the future

Fable / Vice & Fortune
VICE AND FORTUNE A fable of Plutarch in which Vice and Fortune argue over who has the most power to make mankind unhappy

Fortune and the Child
FORTUNE & THE CHILD or Traveller: A boy sleeps on the brink of a deep well; Fortune wakes him, not wanting the blame for the boys folly if he should fall

Miser who Lost Fortune
THE MISER WHO LOST HIS FORTUNE: A miser finds that the gold he had buried in a hole in the ground has been taken

Fortune & the Schoolboy
FORTUNE & THE SCHOOLBOY or Child or Traveller: A boy sleeps on the brink of a deep well; Fortune wakes him, not wanting the blame for the boys folly if he should fall

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)
Engraving of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the British-US explorer and journalist, pictured in 1878. In October 1869, Stanley was sent by James Gordon Bennett (the owner of the New York Herald)

Mme Lenormand
MARIE-ANNE LENORMAND, French fortune teller - the most famous of her kind, author of several books about herself and her art

Hands and Crystal Ball
A spooky photograph of a crystal ball and a womans hands

Tea Leaves in a Teacup
Tea leaves at the bottom of a teacup

Tarot Card Bateleur 1500
TAROT Le Bateleur (The Juggler)

Tarot Card Wheel Fortune
TAROT : 10 LA ROUE DE FORTUNE (The Wheel of Fortune)

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