17th Collection (page 2)

Pin-Up Girl by David Wright
Pin-up Girl by David Wright, showing a woman in bra, petticoat and evening gloves looking at her reflection in a hand mirror

Owen Jones Renaiss 78
Ornaments copied from specimens of Hispano-Arabic, French and Italian earthenware, from Italian towns of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries

Amsterdam Exchange / C17
A general scene at the Amsterdam stock exchange

Long John Silver / Parrot
For generations of readers, the archetypal pirate is Long John Silver, the devious and malevolent villain of Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island - parrot and all !

Acupuncture in 17th Cent
Travellers in the East bring back accounts of different medical processes : this Chinese diagram of acupuncture points is published in a German scientific journal

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), diarist and Naval administrator. Date: 1666

First Authenticated Christmas Tree - Strasbourg
Christmas Tree in History and Legend: The Earliest Authenticated Christmas Tree in Strasbourg (at this time in Germany). A merchant of Strasburg (a Mr Forbes)

Greenwich Placentia
The palace of Placentia stood on the site of the later Naval College, but was demolished 1664 : it was the scene of many important events such as the birth of Elizabeth. Date: 16-17th centuries

England / Bungay
The Market Square at Bungay, Suffolk, England, showing the interesting 17th century Butter Cross, and some of the ancient townhouses. Date: 1930s

Outwood Windmills
The old (17th century) windmills at Outwood, near Redhill, Surrey, England. The one in the foreground was built in 1665 and is (in 2006) Britains oldest working windmill. Date: late 1930s

Allied Airborne Army Parachutes in Holland; Second World War
Aerial photograph showing parachutes of the Allied Airborne Army floating down to earth and discarded ones, after landing, in Holland, September 1944

A Bunch of Sweetness by David Wright. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Cotswold Games 17th C
Cotswold Olimpick Games organised by Robert Dover, including shin kicking and other local sports

Reformation in England
Title-page of a history of the Reformation in England : Henry VIII defies the pope, Edward VI prays, Mary burns Ridley, Latimer, Cranmer; Elizabeth sets all right

Globe Theatre
The Globe Theatre (on the right) and the Bear Garden (left) are located on the South Bank, in a somewhat unprestigeous quarter of the city

Japan - Inland Sea and the Kintai Bridge - decorative border
Japan - The Inland Sea and the Kintai Bridge, a historical wooden arch bridge, in the city of Iwakuni, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The bridge was built in 1673, spanning the Nishiki River

SUSTERMANS, Joost (1597-1681). Portrait of Galileo Galilei. ca. mid. 17th c. Detail. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Oil on canvas. ITALY. Florence. Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery)

The Great Fight for the Championship

Thurso Castle
The entrance gateway to Thurso Castle a 17th century stone tower house, absorbed into a 19th century baronial mansion, which sadly burned down. Date: 17th century

Tewin Water House and Tewin Water, Hertfordshire
View of Tewin Water House and Tewin Water, at Digswell, Hertfordshire, with a host of golden daffodils in the foreground. The house was built in the 17th century

British Sentry keeping watch on Nijmegen Bridge; Second Worl
Photograph showing aan Irish Guardsman keeping watch on the Bridge at Nijmegen, September 1944. On 17th September 1944 Operation Market Garden was put into action; a bold plan devised by

British First Airborne Troops march towards Arnhem; Second W
Photograph showing men of the British First Airborne Division marching into Arnhem with their guns and equipment, after landing outside the town, September 1944

Garraways Coffee-House
The exterior of Garraways coffee house in Change Alley, London, rebuilt after a fire in 1748, one of the first to sell tea in the 17th century

Swedish Werewolf
A werewolf and his victims

Paranormal / Phrenology
The mystery of the human head

Map of Atlantis / Kircher
Map of Atlantis showing position relative to Europe, Africa and America (albeit upside down)

The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (17th c.). Oil on canvas

Lake District Farmhouse
Low Tilberthwaite Farm & Barn, a typical farmhouse in the Lancashire part of the Lake District, England. Note the spinning gallery, used for drying out wool. Date: 17th century

First world war air battle, by G. H. Davis
A colour illustration showing an air battle taking place in WWI

Chipping Campden 1940S
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, viewed through the arch of the 17th century Wool Hall. It was once the centre of the Cotswolds wool trade

Tarot Card Fool 17C
TAROT LE FOU (The Fool)

C17 Chair Maker / Woodcut
A furniture maker gives a chair a good caning

Charterhouse / 17C?
The Charterhouse, in the City of London

Empire State Building
Construction began on March 17th 1930 and the building rose to be the worlds largest office building of the time. Here, office space is being advertised

C17 Blacksmith / Woodcut
Two blacksmiths work with hammers at an anvil, while behind them their furnace roars

C17 Rope Maker / Woodcut
Two cordwainers - rope makers - wind the twisted fibres

Quaker Meeting / Lauron
A Quaker meeting - a woman stands on an upturned barrel to preach

Printing equipment at a German printer s
A flat-bed press and other printing equipment in a German printers workshop (Buchdruckerwerkstatte)

17th Lancers, Charge of the Light Brigade, Balaclava, Crimea
Into the Valley of Death - The 17th Lancers during the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava on 25th October 1854 during the Crimean War - by John Charlton. 1854

Castration 17th Century
A fearful patient is restrained on a low couch and castrated

Isaac Newton - English physicist, astronomer, mathematician
Isaac Newton (1642-1727). English physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica. Volume I: Mathematica

William Thompsons fight off Poole, Dorset, 30 May 1695. Thompson was a local fisherman whose fishing boat was fired on by a French privateer near the Isle of Purbeck

Portrait of Roman Emperor Majorian
Roman Emperor Majorian, 420-461. Flavius Julius Valerius Majorianus, Western Roman Emperor. Copperplate engraving from Abraham Bogaerts De Roomsche Monarchy, The Roman Monarchy, Francois Salma

Portrait of Roman Emperor Domitian
Roman Emperor Domitian, 51AD-96AD, Titus Flavius Caesar Domitianus Augustus. Copperplate engraving from Abraham Bogaerts De Roomsche Monarchy, The Roman Monarchy, Francois Salma, Utrecht, 1697

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, oil on canvas by an unknown artist after Robert Walker, c.1640. Date: c.1640

Portrait of Nell Gwynne, oil of canvas by an unknown artist after Peter Lely, c.1680, in a pine frame with carved foliage detail made in Britain, c.1650-1700. Date: c.1680

The Annunciation, 1597-1600, by El Greco
El Greco (1541-1614). Cretan painter. The Annunciation, 1597-1600. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). The Four Seasons. Winter or The
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). French painter. The Four Seasons.Winter or The Flood.1660-1664. Louvre Museum. Paris. France

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