Wreath Collection (page 6)

Roman funerary stele with high relief of three figures. 1st
Roman funerary stele with high relief of three figures showing the deceased (centre) and probably flanked by his mother and brother. Made in Cyprus. 1st century AD. Limestone

Head of a bearded man with laurel wreath. 475-450 BC. Cyprio
Head from a statue of a bearded man with laurel wreath. Limestone. Sculpted in Cyprus between 475-450 BC. From the Sanctuary of Apollo at Idalion. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Terence (195-159 BC). Engraving
Terence (195-159 BC). Playwright during the Roman Republic. Portrait. Engraving in an edition of his works of 1518. Library University of Barcelona. Spain

Ukraine. Sevastopol. Memorial to World War II

Egyptian Art. Mummy mask. Roman Period. 6070 A. C
Egyptian Art. Mummy mask. Roman Period. 6070 A.C. Middle Egypt. Probably, it comes from Meir (Mir). Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Music cover, Anglo-Saxon March by Max Werner, with a Dreadnought battleship, an allegorical female figure holding an American flag, and the British Lion at her feet. 1898

Girl with flowers on a fabric Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Eric Dupuy Scholar
ERIC DUPUY or ERICIUS PUTEANUS or ERIK VAN DER PUTTE Flemish scholar, depicted with allegorical motifs including an eagle with a laurel wreath, the winged horse Pegasus etc. Date: 1574 - 1646

Beranger (Young and Old)
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Fame places a laurel wreath on his bust while, an old man, he remembers his childhood. Date: 1780 - 1857

Beranger (His Tomb)
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER France places a laurel wreath on the tomb of this immensely popular poet. Date: 1780 - 1857

Bridal Wreath, Germany
A country girl purchases a bridal wreath. Date: early 19th century

Christmas / Sweden / Lucia
In Sweden, Christmas begins on December 13th, St Lucias Day. The youngest daughter in a family carries a breakfast tray to her parents. Date: 1910s

German Prince & Princess
German Prince and Princess of the early 16th century. He wears full armour - the helmet is profusely ornamented with ostrich plumes. Date: circa 1515

Hairstyles / Evening 1868
Fashionable evening coiffures, with ringlets and various ornaments and hoods. (2 of 2) 1868

Anna Letitia Barbauld
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743 - 1825) writer ( Hymns in prose ) and schoolteacher depicted here in classical style complete with laurel wreath Date: circa 1780

Lydia Sterne
Laurence Sternes daughter Lydia, depicted mourning her father whose bust she has crowned with a laurel wreath Date: mid 18th-century

Annibale Caro
ANNIBALE CARO Italian writer, fond of the companionship of birds Date: 1507 - 1566

Petrarch (Anon)
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Italian poet wearing a laurel wreath Date: 1304 - 1374

Henri II / Chapman
HENRI II Date: 1519 - 1559

Austrian Harvest Wreath
Harvesters of Niederosterreich (Lower Austria) present the Schnitterkranz (Reapers Wreath) to the farmer, as a token that the harvest has been completed Date: 1888

Augustus with Livia &c
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS (originally Gaius Octavius, also known as Octavianus) First Roman Emperor, with his wife LIVIA, divinities and soldiers Date: 63 BC - 14 AD

Heinrich Heine / Montmartr
HEINRICH HEINE Proposed monument to the German poet and critic in Montmartre Cemetery (he lived in Paris from 1831) Date: 1797 - 1856

Stationery, Treseder & Co, Truro, Cornwall
Stationery, Treseder & Co, Landscape Gardeners, Nurserymen & Seedsmen, The Nurseries, Truro, Cornwall, with handwritten details. 1919

Fancy dress - young woman dressed as a flower
A young woman in fancy dress costume - perhaps as a flower of the chrysanthemum or gerba daisy variety. Date: c.1900

White flowers, holly and a cross on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Major PHG Powell-Cotton, Quex Park on his 50th birthday
Major PHG Powell-Cotton of Quex Park wearing a head wreath of fuschias for his 50th birthday. His journal records D.(Diana, his eldest child, b. 1907) had made me a head wreath of fushias

White dove on an Italian greetings card
White dove with pink ribbon and flowers on an Italian greetings card (signed on the back by Edward Lear). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1880

Sphere cover - King places wreath on unknown warrior coffin
Front cover of The Sphere showing King George V placing a wreath on the coffin of the body of the unknown warrior as it passed the cenotaph on its journey to Westminster Abbey where it would be

Sacrificial bull in decorative sash led by a man in a laurel wreath after a Roman triumph.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of

Calligraphic title page with a putto crowning a bust with a wreath and another playing a lyre.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of

Title page with vignette of a bust of Lessing and three putti with wreath, trumpet and mantle.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of

Women with laurel wreath and fluttering mantles driving a Greek four-horse chariot.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal

Woman with a laurel wreath driving a Greek four-horse chariot.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Indian girl stringing flowers for wreaths.. handcolored copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from Asiatic Costumes, Ackermann, London, 1828

King George V, places first wreath on the Cenotaph
On 11th November 1919, the first anniversary of Armistice day, the Britsh nation, in reponse to an invitation by King George V

Giovanni Battista Doni, Italian musicologist
Giovanni Battista Doni (1594-1647), Italian musicologist who studied ancient music. He changed the name of the tonic note Ut, renaming it Do after his own family name. Seen here at the age of 50

Texas Heroes Monument, Galveston, Texas, USA, in memory of those who died in the Texas Revolution (Texas War of Independence, 1835-1836)

World War I Memorial, Laramie, Wyoming, USA. Date: circa 1920s

Monument commemorating Zeebrugge raid, Belgiuim
Monument commemorating the three British ships and men lost in the Zeebrugge raid of 23 April 1918: HMS Vindictive, Iphigenia and Thetis

Paris, France - Place du Chatelet. Date: 1830

Bone china cup and saucer - WWI
Bone china cup and saucer manufactured by Diamond China, England. Shows the flags of the Allies, the centre vignette shows a Royal Naval battleship with an aeroplane

AB R & Co patriotic china bulldog with laurel wreath
A B. R. & Co. patriotic china bulldog with laurel wreath and Union flag. With a poem by Burns - Be Briton still to Britain true, among oursels united, for never but British hands

Silver award medal made into a brooch inscribed, on reverse British Expeditionary Force - Recreational Training with a laurel wreath on the front. Commemorative Ware

Captain James Cook -- an allegory
Captain James Cook (1728-1779), explorer. An allegory, showing Neptune raising him up to Immortality, a Genius crowning him with a Wreath of Oak, and Fame introducing him to History

King James II statue
King James II of England (1633-1701, reigned 1685-1688), a statue of him in Roman costume by the sculptor Peter Van Dievoet (1686), previously in the Privy Garden, Whitehall

Louis XIV - King of France
Louis XIV (16381715) - King of France (and of Navarre) from 1638 until his death. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is one of the longest in French and European history. Date: circa 1680

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold I (16401705) - Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia. A member of the Habsburg family, he was the second son of Emperor Ferdinand III and his first wife

American patriotic postcard, commemorating the civil war. Honour the Brave! 1861- 1865 Date: 1908

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