Beast Collection (page 3)

Kittens Playing with Leaf in the Snow Date: 1910

Beauty and the Beast
Beauty is just in time to save the Beasts life

FOLKLORE / GRANDBETE
The GRANDBETE (= Great Beast) is a scary monster of Berry, central France, usually in the form of a huge bull, though sometimes as a dog, hare or sheep - but always gigantic Date: 1851

FOLKLORE / SUCCARATH 15C
The SUCCARATH a beast which carries its young on its back, protected by its bushy tail Date: late 15th century

A Queens Beast at Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire. Date: circa 1980s

The contents of a halal butchers shop in Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia. A beasts head hangs up along with tripe. Sheeps heads and feet lie on a table. Date: 1987

Woman with cow cart Portugal - 2
A woman harvesting hay by hand. She loads the cut grass onto a cow cart in the hills near Viana do Castelo, in the Norte Region of Portugal - 2 Date: 1989

Woman with cow cart Portugal - 1
A woman harvesting hay by hand. She loads the cut grass onto a cow cart in the hills near Viana do Castelo, in the Norte Region of Portugal. First published The Sunday Times - 1 Date: 1989

Sphinx - Thames Embankment - Base of Cleopatras Needle
Sphinx - River Thames Embankment - Base of Cleopatras Needle. Westminster and Hungerford Bridge can be seen in the background. Date: circa 1930s

Syrian Porter carries two enormous trunks on his back
A Syrian Porter carries two enormous trunks on his back. Date: circa 1910s

Hairy children of Pedro Gonzalez
Two hairy children of Pedro Gonzalez (Petrus Gonsalvus), born in 1537, who suffered from hypertrichosis, and his French wife who did not have the condition

Pedro Gonzalez, the hairy man
Pedro Gonzalez, (also spelt Gonsalvus), 16th century noble born hairy man, (flourished 1582) and his French wife of " outstanding beauty". circa 1582

Mesopotamian art. Neo-Babylonian. The Throne Room of Nebuchadnezzar II. Reconstructed facade. Dated in 580 B.C. Its 56 meters facade was decorated with colored glazed bricks as shows the composition

Reign of Antichrist
The reign of Antichrist

Circus tamer with fierce tiger
Looking death in the eyes - for fun! Clyde Beatty, famous wild animal trainer, with a ferocious looking tiger. Date: 1933

Dressing doll. Beauty & the Beast
Beauty & the Beast. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the garments & fit them on the body of the nursery rhyme character. Date: 1921

Panorama. Beauty & the Beast
Beauty & the Beast. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the fairyland figures & place them in a theatrical setting. Date: 1921

The Wooing of La Belle, by Felix de Gray
The Prince Charming who became a Monster, The Wooing of La Belle, by Felix de Gray. 1926

Cyclopean walls. Lions gate. Butrint. Republic of Albania
Cyclopean walls of the ancient city dating from IV century B.C. View of the gateway called Lions Gate, one of the six entrances to the city. It shows a lion devouring a bull. Butrint

The Murrain of Beast. The Fifth Plague: Livestock Disease. Exod 9. Engraving by Gustave Dore. 19th C

Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Lion eating a hand, Relief
Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Ptolemaic Dynasty. 2nd century B.C. Dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and falcon god Haroeris. Lion eating a hand. Relief. Wall

Mycenaean art. Greece. Funerary stele in stone. Relief depicting a lion chasing a deer. From the tomb V of Circle A at Mycenae. Dated in 16th century B.C. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Dyonisus. Roman mosaic
Roman mosaic depicting god Dionysus. Detail of the mosaic Meeting between Ariadne and Dionysus. 4th century. Anniboni. National Museum of Roman Art. Merida. Spain

Byzantine Art. Relief depicting a lion on the facade of the Church of St. Nicholas, built in the 13th century and remodeled in 18th and 19th centuries. Mesopotam. Albania

Byzantine relief. Marble slab with a lion devouring a deer
BYZANTINE ART. GREECE. Marble slab with a relief representing a lion devouring a deer. Dated from the end of the tenth century and early eleventh century. It comes from Athens. Byzantine Museum

Vesta Tilley in pantomime at Drury Lane
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

German Kultur by Edmund Sullivan
The Beast Breaks Loose - Kultur as it appears to Edmund J. Sullivan. The brutish, monstrous German soldier envisaged by Edmund Sullivan as a huge, hulking gorilla like monster

Discovery of the Adams mammoth, 1799
Discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia. A local chief spotted the creature, encased in transparent ice, on the banks of the river Lena in 1799

The Bogey-Beast
The cheerful old lady considers herself lucky to encounter the BOGEY- BEAST, a mischievous but not particularly dangerous folklore creature

The Scarlet Woman and the Great Beast
Scene from The Apocalypse, depicting The Scarlet Woman and the Great Beast

A man and his mule in Egypt
An Egyptian man is kicked by his mule, probably in retaliation for giving it too much to carry. Date: early 20th century

A man and his camel in Egypt
An Egyptian man has his ear bitten by his camel -- possibly a sign of affection? Date: early 20th century

The Dragon of the Apocalypse - Revelation 13. circa 1688

Archeological remains of the facade to the Archaeological Museum. Pula. Republic of Croatia

Etruscan Art. Italy. Great gold fibula decorated with lions. It comes from Regolini-Galassi tomb. Necropolis of Sorbo. 7th century B.C. Detail. Gregorian Etruscan Museum. Vatican Museums. Vatican City

Relief of the palace of Ashurnasirpal II or Northwest Palace
Mesopotamian art. Assyrian. Relief of the palace of Ashurnasirpal II or Northwest Palace at Nimrud. Alabaster. Dated 883-859 B.C. It depicts the lion hunt. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Small Temple or Temple of Hathor. The gods Set (left) and Ho
Egyptian art. Small Temple or Temple of Hathor. 19th dynasty. New Empire. The gods Set (left) and Horus (right) adoring Ramses II. Abu Simbel. Egypt

Greek Art. Archaic period. Krater painted with scenes of men and women dancing. Below, is depicted panthers and wild goats. It comes from Kaza (Eleftheros). Komast Style Group

Mycenaean art. Greece. Rhyton as lions head embossed in gold foil. Found in Tomb IV Circle A at Mycenae. Around 1550 BCE National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Roman Art. Greece. Relief in a Roman tomb around the Odeon. It depicts a Roman soldier on horseback fighting a lion. Patras

Greek Art. Greece. Carving of a lions head. Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Greece

Greek Art. 5th century B. C. Greece. Bronze bath handle depic
Greek Art. 5th century B.C. Greece. Bronze bath handle depicting two lions devouring a deer (c. 480 BC). Archaeological Museum of Olympia

Persian Art. Achaemenid period. Persepolis. Griffin
Persian Art. Achaemenid period. Persepolis (Takht-e-Jamshid). Capital with a griffin, dated during the reign of Xerxes (486-465 BC). In the background, the Gate of all Nations or Gate of Xerxes

Bronze statue of a lion rampant. Second half of 6th century. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece

Monastery of Sant Cugat. Capital depicting Samson slaying th
Art Romanesque. The Royal Benedictine Monastery of Sant Cugat. Built betwenn 9th and 14th centuries. Capital depicting Samson slaying the lion. Cloister. Sant Cugat del Valles. Barcelona. Catalonia

DIGONNET - Leader of a religious sect at Saint-Jean- Bonnefond, near Saint-Etienne, catholiques mais non romains who thought priests were the Beast of the Apocalypse. Date: 1780 - 1857

Various Dogs of 1810
Cur or cattle dog : Bull or Beast Dog; Rough Water Dog; Mastiff or Guard Dog; Dalmatian or Coach Dog; Shepherds Dog; Newfoundland Dog : Terrier or Vermin Dog. Date: circa 1810

Peruvian Husband, Wife
Peru : a native of the Panos people travels with his wife, whom he treats as a beast of burden, not so much the beloved companion of his life, more an alternative donkey Date: circa 1870

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