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Platos Cave AllegoryIn Platos Republic Socrates likens mankind to prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows of reality, and the philosophers to those who have been given a glimpse of it
Construction of the Statue of Liberty, ParisConstruction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris, before shipping to New York. 1885
A Star Explodes - Norman LindsayA Star Explodes by Norman Lindsay Date: 1932
Kiss of the Oceans - Atlantic meets Pacific - Panama CanalThe Kiss of the Oceans - The Atlantic meets the Pacific due to the construction of The Panama Canal - A lovely allegorical card relating to this phenomenal engineering project
The Workers May-Pole, design for a socialist posterThe Workers May-Pole, a design for a socialist poster, with a central allegorical figure, and banners and ribbons labelled with abstract ideas such as Leisure, Solidarity and Humanity. Date: 1894
Science AllegorisedPhilosophy enthroned, surrounded by the sciences - Grammar, Rhetoric, Linguistics, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry and Astronomy, with Socrates and Plato and scholars writing
A Jaipur AllegoryLook Out, The Elephants Coming! An artists impression of the dominant Jaipur Polo team. Having won the Indian Polo Association Championship in December 1932
Female jockeys riding gentlemen like horsesTwo women jockeys with riding crops, spur on their steeds - not horses, but top-hatted and tailed gentlemen who wear bridles in their mouths
Classical Greek gods allegorisedThe classical Greek gods allegorised. Date: 18th century
Trades union membership certificateA trades union membership certificate for the United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with Defence and Defiance as their motto
Justice as depicted on a Tarot cardComtesse de Segur, nee Sophie Rostopchine, French writer, born in Russia, best known for Les Malheurs de Sophie, first published 1859
Minerva Victorious over ignoranceMinervas Victorious over Ignorance. Spranger, Bartholomaeus (1546-1611). Oil on canvas
The Feast of Venus, after 1635. Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Oil on canvas, 217 x 350 cm
Zulu War Britannia 1879British Imperialism symbolically represented at the time of the Zulu War
AbsintheAllegory on the dangers of drinking Absinthe
Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883). Spring, 1873Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883). French painter. Spring, 1873. Oil on Canvas. Metropolitan Museum. New York. United States
Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, WW1Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, twenty-four years after Tenniel. In Tenniels Dropping the Pilot cartoon of 1890 Kaiser Wilhelm II watches as Bismarck disembarks from the ship (of state)
The Strife of Lent with Shrovetide, c. 1550, by Pieter BrueghPieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569). Flemish painter. The Strife of Lent with Shrovetide, c.1550. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark
Jesus CrucifixionAllegory of Jesus crucified, surrounded by relics and other symbolic attributes
Tarot Card 8 - La Justice (Justice)
Rene Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher. His most famous philosophical statement was: I think, therefore I am
Sculpture on Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, FranceSculpture on the Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, a Romanesque revival building which was destroyed during the Second World War. Date: circa 1920s
Illustration, A Song of the English, Thames EmbankmentIllustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)
LORENZETTI, Ambrogio (1285-1348). Effects of Good Government on the City Life. First half 14th c. Detail. Renaissance art. Trecento. Fresco. ITALY. TUSCANY. Siena. Public Palace
Patriotic French poster by CappielloPatriotic poster by Leonetto Cappiello, depicting Marianne, the national symbol of France, standing on a red, white and blue map of the country
Edward VII Memorial unveiling at Brighton and HoveThe unveiling of a Memorial to the late King Edward VII on the boundary dividing the boroughs of Brighton and Hove. It was unveiled by the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, the Duke of Norfolk
Justice PersonifiedJustice holding scales to symbolise even-handedness, stability and equality
MOVE ON POLICE SATIREA cruel satire aimed at the Commissioners of Police, features a skeleton in a policemans uniform moving on a starving, homeless woman and her baby
M JEKYLL, O HYDEDr M Jekyll and Mr O Hyde - Tenniel uses Stevensons novel as an allegory of Irelands two faces - the one respectable, the other murderous. Date: 1888
Barbers shop with Monkeys and Cats. Teniers, Abraham (1629-1670). Oil on copper
Rich Woman fishes for suitorsLeap Year - A Sure Bait A rich woman sits on the riverbank, loading up her hook with her riches ( LSD - pounds shillings and pence) - a sure bait for the mass of suitors she has already caught
Music sheet cover for Queen of the May QuadrilleMusic sheet cover for the Queen of the May Quadrille, composed by the French conductor Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-1860), and dedicated to Mrs Robert Arkwright (the actress Frances Crawford Kemble)
WW1 Allegory - The Allies greet the arriving Italian SoldierViva L Italia ! - WW1 Allegory - The Allies greet the arriving Italian Soldier - " Banded together to face the foe." Date: circa 1916
JUSTICE CLEANED UPCleaning up British Justice
Beethoven / Vienna StatueLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Inauguration of the monument to the German composer at Vienna on 1 May 1880
Judgment of God on Sin in the form of the Whore of Babylon, with angels above and dragons and demons below in hell. Handcoloured etching drawn
Renaissance Art. Italy. Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Venus and Mars, c. 1483. Detail of Venus. Tempera on panel. National Gallery. London. England. UK
Equestrian Statue of Vittorio Emanuele II, Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1950s
WW1 poster, Vive la France! All for one and one for all! Allied tribute to France, 14 July at 8pm, Mass Meeting on the French National Holiday to show we all stand together till we win Peace by
Gian Galeazzo Visconti and his three sonsGian Galeazzo Visconti 1 and his sons Filippo Maria 2, Gian Maria 3 and Gabriele Maria 4. Filippo holds a model of Certosa di Pavia, a monastery in Pavia, Lombardy
Hope by George Frederick Watts. late 19th century
An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald ZieglerAn Allegory of Social Strife, a painting by Archibald Ziegler. A reflection on postwar mass unemployment and social unrest, recalling the 1926 General Strike. late 1920s
Ronot press, Conservatoire des Arts de la MetallurgieRonot press, reconstructed, and statue of Allegory of Industry, at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie, or Conservatory of the Arts of Metallurgy
Allegory of the Villa of Madrid, 1810, by Francisco de GoyaFrancisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. Allegory of the Villa of Madrid, 1810. History Museum. Madrid. Spain
Allegoric Capricho, 1852, by Eugenio Lucas VelazquezEugenio Lucas Velazquez (1817-1870). Spanish painter. Allegoric Capricho, 1852. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain
Cartoon, Britannia and Kaiser Wilhelm IIPolitical cartoon, Britannia and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Cousins German, with jealous Marianne (France) looking on Date: 1891
Cartoon, Britannia, a PresentimentPolitical cartoon, Britannia, a Presentiment - with all these rumours about I'd better look to my weapons Date: 1891
Music sheet, Rule Britannia, as solo and chorusMusic sheet, patriotic song Rule Britannia, as solo and chorus, composed by Dr Arne, with musical notation Date: 19th century