Archetype Collection (page 2)

Paris Exposition of 1900 and inset portrait of Marianne
Paris Exposition (Exposition) of 1900 - The Monumental Gate (La Porte Monumentale) and an inset portrait of Marianne Date: circa 1901

Sir John Eldon Gorst sends 8th Duke of Devonshire into well
The Story of the Duke and the Bunnygorst (cont.). Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) as a rather lazy layabout

The Neglected Lion. The British Lion as Struwwelpeter, neglected by his politicians who " tinker up the laws and never manicure his claws." ! Date: 1899

The Swiss Cantons around a personification of Switzerland
The Swiss Canton flags around a personification of Switzerland Date: circa 1910s

Beauties - Four fine British Bulldogs and their two young female owners, one of whom (on the right) does not seem to be too happy with proceedings. Date: circa 1910s

Joseph Chamberlain leading John Bull deeper
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) leading John Bull (representing the British populace as a whole) inward into the deeper waters of his new Fiscal Policy

The United States - Black and White - Racial Equality
The United States - Black and White - Equal opportunity for all races. Theodore " T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919) the 26th President of the United States

Noblesse oblige - Swiss caring for injured soldiers
Noblesse oblige - Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly. Despite neutrality in world conflict, the Swiss recognise their obligations due to their status to care for those injured in

French encouraged to pour their gold into French WW1 effort
Dramatic patriotic postcard encouraging the French population to pour their gold into the French WW1 war effort or to exchange their gold at banks for real money to contribute. Date: 1915

Rule Britannia - Britannia Rules the Waves - WW2 era propaganda greetings card Date: circa 1943

Patriotic French postcard - WWI era
Patriotic French postcard, featuring a rather non-plussed model as French Heroic Archetype Marianne, sending glorious good wishes for swift military victory to French forces in the early years of

Uncle Sam. US World War Two propaganda postcard
The Personification of the United States of America - Uncle Sam leaning against a large letter v on this US World War Two propaganda postcard. Date: 1941

Russian Bear trapped up a pole by the Japanese
Dudley Hardy - Stuck; Humorous postcard relating to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The sender has added the comment " Good Old Japs" onto the pole. Date: circa 1905

Marianne and the British Bulldog - Franco-British Exhbition
Marianne smiles favourably toward the British Bulldog - a symbolic postcard, denoting the thawing of international relations between France and Britain following the Entente Cordiale (signed in 1904)

French view of an English Gent in London
Spectacularly stereotypical French view of an English Gent in London, complete with plaid trousers, pith helmet, sinister expression (!) and a background of dark satanic mills!!! Date: 1901

The Gunfighter - The American Wild West

Switzerland - Bern - Cantons
The canton shields of the different regions of Switzerland displayed on a tree and the embodiment of Helvetia the female personification of Switzerland

Prince Alfons of Bayern (1862 - 1933) - a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry

Ahmed Schukri Bey
Turkish Minister of Culture and Education during the First World War

Saint George Returns
SAINT GEORGE St George is given a heroes welcome after vanquishing the dragon - which is dragged by a team of horses in his wake

Antimacassar - 2
Woollen antimacassar, intended to protect furniture from the macassar oil widely used as hair dressing. It has become the archetype of Victorian bourgeois taste

Britannia in photographers studio
A woman poses as Britannia in a photographers studio

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