Beast Collection (page 4)

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

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

Multicephalic Bull
The Scarlet Beast by Francis Gerard The Lady and her many-headed bull Date: 1935

Cover of Der Eisenbahner - Volume 1
Striking embossed Cover of Der Eisenbahner - Volume 1, featuring a train cum dragon speeding out of the cover in a shower of sparks and plumes of smoke and team.. Date: 1902

Beauty and the Beast, Lyceum Pantomime
Beauty and the Beast Pantomime, Lyceum Theatre, London. 1937

Fossil skeleton of a Great Beast, Megatherium, an extinct elephant-sized ground sloth.. Copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France

Sivatherium, an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to Southern Asia.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916

Sivatherium, Sivatherium giganteum, extinct genus of giraffid.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F. John from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1910, Hamburg

Megatherium americanum or Great Beast, genus of elephant-sized ground sloths native to America.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World

Worshiping of the Beast. Apocalypse of Angers
BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c.). The Worshiping of the Beast. 1375 - 1382. Scene 15 of the tapestry number 3 from the series Apocalypse of Angers commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou

The Number of the Beast. Apocalypse of Angers
BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c.). The Number of the Beast. 1375 - 1382. Fifth scene of the tapestry number 4 of the series Apocalypse of Angers commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou

Hagenbeck Circus and Zoo in London
The sights and sounds of the Christmas season at Olympia, London: Carl Hagenbecks Circus and Zoo from Hamburg. Showing the annexe with sea elephants (sea lions), penguins, polar bears

Man with pony on country lane, Scotland
A man with a pony carrying bales of hay on a country lane in Scotland

Notre Dame Cathedral Gargoyle, Paris - Chimera. Date: circa 1920

Beauty and the Beast - Bathing Humour, featuring a hairy, rather ugly man surrounded in the surf by a bevvy of bathing beauties! Date: circa 1905

Detail view of beast designed by Alfred Waterhouse for The W
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Detail view of beast - designed by Alfred Waterhouse for The
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Beatus of Liebana. 10th c. Sheet 150. Death of the Beast and the enemies of God. Mozarabic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial

BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c. ). The Whore Riding
" BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c.). The Whore Riding the Beast. 1375-1382. Piece no. 65 from " The Apocalypse of Angers", commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou. Gothic art. Tapestry

Gladiator fighting against a beast. Roman art. Fresco. Proc: SPAIN. M rida.. Roman Theatre

The celebrated picador Fernando del Toro
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). The celebrated picador Fernando del Toro draws the fierce beast

Theatre on Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois. Date 1940 July

Arab men with crocodiles, Cairo, Egypt. Date: early 20th century

Drawing of a Sphinx, from a statue in the British Museum. By Ellen Philadelphia Smyth (1828-1881), an aunt of Robert Baden Powell. circa 1850s

View of old China
Picturesque scene of old China, with men in coolie hats driving donkeys laden with goods over a bridge. Date: 1911

Arch Druid (Smith)
The Arch Druid in his judicial habit holds the peithynin, or elucidator, on which maxims are inscribed : the snake beside the altar-stone is a sacred beast. Date: BCE

Bukhara - Uzbekistan - A fine camel (carrying sticks?) and driver

Plume Oil sign
An enamel sign advertising plume oil with the logo of Pegasus the winged horse of ancient myth. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Tourist in London
A countryman in London is enticed into visiting a wild beast show

Kaffirs Purify Child
Kaffir ceremony of purification of a new-born child; in the distance, a child with birth-defects has been left for a wild beast to devour

Les Salons D aujourd hui
The ladies (above whom hover cherubs) are deserted by the men in favour of the card table, above which is a devilish winged beast perhaps suggesting gambling folly

French Cockfight
Enthusiastic spectator, who has lost 50p, to the bird which has lost its life : You lousy beast !

Cyrene and Proteus
The water-nymph Cyrene threatens Proteus, who has taken the form of a beast, so he resumes his normal shape and reveals why her son Aristaeuss bees are sick

Beetles, Mosquitoes
Insects are very troublesome in summer : the beetles aren t so bad, but the mosquitoes are deadly to man and beast. The wasps aren t much fun either

Beast / Gevaudan / 1873
LA BETE DU GEVAUDAN The beast with one of its victims

Bete Du Gevaudan / Devigne
LA BETE DU GEVAUDAN The hunting of the beast

Henri IV of France with a seven-headed beast
Henri IV, King of France (from 1589), and King of Navarre (from 1572), seen here in armour, with his sword raised, having decapitated the seven-headed beast

Woman Yokes Man 16C
A wife yokes her husband like a beast of burden, then sits on him and applies the whip

Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time... begins the tale of Beauty and the Beast

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