Kings Collection (#27)

Sydney, 1900s
Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in the 1900s

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923)
Photographic portrait of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923), c.1922. Lord Carnarvon was the wealthy, English amateur egyptologist who financed Howard Carters excavations in the Valley

The Castle of Elmina, Gold Coast, 1873
The Castle of Elmina which both the British and the Ashanti Kings tried to capture sits on the shore of the Gold Coast. In 1873

Madame Tussauds Museum, London, 1884
Engraving showing a number of views of Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, London, 1884. These images show the museum shortly after it moved to its Marylebone Road premises that year

The Sport of Kings by Chloe Preston

London Birdseye 16
Bird s-eye view of London at the end of the 19th century : Euston Road and Marylebone Road, Kings Cross to Paddington

Etats-Generaux
Louis XII, though ruling as autocratically as most kings, finds it prudent to consult his subjects from time to time : he holds a seance of the states-general at Tours

Signora Collini, born at Torino in 1794, first singer of the Kings Theatre, Haymarket, London in 1809- 1810

Madrid Royal Palace
The palace of Madrid, the ordinary residence of the kings of Spain; the place before the palace is thronged with a fine variety of vehicular traffic

The Earl of Carnarvon the initiator of the explorations in the Valley of the Kings. Born in 1866, Carnarvon sponsored Howard Carters excavations of the royal tombs in Thebes

Joffre meeting the King and Prince of Wales
George V and the Prince of Wales meeting General Joffre and President Poincare on October 21st, 1915, during the Kings visit to France

Fleeing An Exploding Star
THE STAR KINGS by Edmond Hamilton. Red spacecraft speed away from an exploding star, three being blown apart having not got far enough away

The Sun in 1585
SOL drives his chariot over the Earth, where kings are being crowned, holding court, riding in procession, receiving homage and punishing offenders

Ruins of Persepolis
General view of the ruins of Persepolis, capital city of the ancient Persian kings, largely destroyed by Alexander of Macedon

Tehran Royal Palace
The palace of the kings of Persia

France Reims
General view of the town, dominated by its magnificent cathedral where the kings of France used to come to be crowned. A diligence is passing in the foreground

Wells Cathedral 1939
The famous West Front of Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England, which has over 600 figures of Kings, Queens, Princes, Ecclesiastics and Nobles sculpted onto its facade

Duc D orleans as Deputy
The duc d Orleans, nominal heir to the throne, speaks in the Chambre des Deputes : but France has had enough of kings for the time being

Swiss Playing Card Pack
An assortment of playing cards: kings, queens and knaves

Masons Song
Song On Masons and Masonry with amazing words : Their godlike Actions reach ye Skies, Heroes & Kings revere their Name and Poets sing their deathless Fame

French Palace Guard 17C
One of the French Kings guards that attend in the palace - possibly to Louis XIV

England / Woodstock
A charming corner of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, an ancient town with Royal connections, on the edge of the Cotswolds

Jesus and the Magi
The infant Jesus receives his birthday presents from the Magi

English Coronation Stone
The English Coronation Stone, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, dating back to 901. Alfred the Greats son Edward the Elder was the first of seven Saxon kings to be crowned on it

Goddess Hathor
Pillar depicting the Egyptian goddess HATHOR, in the Hathor Chapel of the Hatshepsut (or Hashepsowe) Temple - Deir el- Bahri - Thebes (Luxor), Egypt

Charles I, Wife, Sons
Charles and his wife Henrietta Maria, with their sons Charles and James, both of whom will be kings in their turn, and keep their heads though not always their crowns

Kings College, 1906
The Chapel and part of the College, seen from the Backs. The view is virtually unchanged, a hundred years later

Pawnbroker Sign / 1940S
Symbol of the pawn shop, the Three Golden Balls was adapted from the arms of the Medici financiers who came to this country from Italy in 1282 to lend money to English Kings

Edward VIII and Edwards
EDWARD VIII Is pictured centrally as he would have appeared at his coronation, surrounded by the previous King Edwards

Martin Berigeroth
MARTIN BERNIGEROTH The court engraver to The Kings of Poland and the Electors of Saxony

Kings Chapel, 1841
The Chapel, seen from the far side of the Entrance Court

Kings - the Hall
Interior of the Hall, viewed from the High Table

Kings / Mackenzie
The classic view from the far side of the Backs - a gowned don discusses philosophy or something with a female friend, girls sit sedately, boys bowl their hoops boisterously

Kings - the Library
The College Library, on the left, looking towards the bridge over the Cam

Iron Crown / Dambourges
Crown of the Lombard kings of France, known as the Couronne de Fer [= the Iron Crown]

Council of Maximilian
EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I presiding over a council of Emperors, Kings & nobles of Spain and France, 1501

Adoration of Magi
THE NATIVITY The Magi adore the new-born Jesus

Joshua at Gibeon
Joshua commands the sun & moon to stand still while he defends the city of Gibeon (allied with the Israelites) against the five kings of the Amorites

Kings Bring Guns
What the Three Kings bring today - guns, warships, shells

Nativity / Magi / Zurbaran
NATIVITY Infant Jesus visited by the Magi

Treasure Found by Howard
Part of the treasures found by Howard Carter at the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor

Manuscript depicting the visit of the Three Kings
Page from an illuminated manuscript, Leben der Maria, by the Bavarian priest Wernher (c 1170), depicting the visit of the Three Kings to the newly born Christ child. Date: 12th century

Playing Kings and Queens
A girl and boy play Kings and Queens -- the boy is all for war, but the girl prefers peace

Josiah Reads and Repents
Josiah, god-fearing himself, reads in the chronicles how his predecessors have sinned, and determines that henceforward the kings of Israel will behave better

Tourists / Tomb of Kings
English tourists, including Edward VII and Alexandra, in the Tomb of the Kings

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