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Lear / Owl & Pussycat / C19
The Owl & the Pussy-Cat went to sea, In a beautiful pea- green boat; They took some honey, & plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note

Yardley advertisement, 1962
Advertisement for the Lavender range of fragrances and bathroom products by Yardley, featuring an illustration of a pensive woman with large doe eyes. Date: 1962

The Owl and The Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note

The Pipes Of Pan, by Elsie Harding
Colour illustration showing a dream-like scene of a piper playing for a beautiful lady with butterfly wings

St Margaret of Scotland
ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND Queen of Malcolm III (1069), intelligent, beautiful, and devout, with a taste for fine clothes

Wales / Caswell Bay
The beautiful Caswell Bay, on the Gower Peninsula, Glamorganshire, Wales. Date: 1960s

Three Japanese Geisha girls playing Go
Three Japanese Geisha girls in Kobe, Japan, playing the popular boardgame Go in their beautiful Kimonos

Zazel / Human Cannonball
Zazel at the Royal Aquarium, London. " A beautiful Lady shot from a monstrous cannon." This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a human cannonball act

Nude by David Wright
Erotic painting by David Wright, best known for his pin ups, showing a nude woman from an unusual angle, with her legs and bottom in the light, and her back in the shadows. Date: c.1948

Illustrated London News Christmas number cover, 1904
A beautiful fairy with wings, looks thoughtful as she gazes out to the sea and starry sky. Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1904. Date: 1904

Blue Bird (Bird Sirin) - Sergey Solomko. Date: circa 1903

Sparrowes House, or The Ancient House, Ipswich, Suffolk, is an architectural gem, built in 1567 by George Copping. It has four oriel windows and even the gabled windows have cupids Date: circa 1901

Saint Clare of Assisi
Detail depicting Saint Clare (born Chiara Offreduccio 11941253) from a fresco (131220) by Simone Martini in the Lower basilica of San Francesco, Assisi. Date: circa 1910s

The Tatler front-cover: The Duchess of Windsor
The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, in The Tatler magazine, March 1939. The caption reads: This portrait of the beautiful wife of H.R.H

Red-headed girl seated in a sheer red dress. Painting by David Wright reproduced in Men Only Magazine

Woman reading a book
A beautiful young woman with blonde hair and red lipsticked lips, wears a lilac gown with sky blue fur trim. She reclines in her favourite chair to read her book. 1937

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Baba Beaton
Miss Baba Beaton is the younger of the two beautiful and attractive Beaton girls. They are among the most popular of the blonde ex-debs, and no party is complete without them

Putting on lipstick - David Wright
A smart blonde girls sitting in her boudoir applies some vivid red lipstick. Her red and black evening gown, awaits... Painting by David Wright

Lady Duff-Gordons beautiful mannequins
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon, a leading fashion designer better known by her professional name, Lucile. She was the proprietor of Lucile s, Hanover Square, famous for the emotional gown

Mary Tudor / Egleton
MARY TUDOR Catholic Queen of England, in a somewhat idealised, Victorian depiction

Ganymede (Titian)
The beautiful youth Ganymede, son of King Tros of Troy, catches Zeus eye and he sends an eagle to abduct him, immortalising him as the cupbearer of the Gods

Brooding Soldier - Canadian Memorial, Vancouver Corner - WWI
The memorial commemorates the 18, 000 Canadian soldiers who withstood the first gas attack on April 22/24 1915 (Battle of Ypres), suffering over 2, 000 casualties

Entomological specimens of Lepidoptera
Unidentified photograph of mounted specimens of butterflies and moths

England / Weobley
Weobley, a beautiful Herefordshire market town of old half-timbered houses, mellowed by age and clustering round an imposing 14th century church. Date: 1950s

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty, pictured in a perfect pose as she sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel

Just Wright by David Wright
A young woman in a red dress with a plunging neckline and a large, wide brimmed hat to protect her English rose complexion from the sun, contemplates the viewer with a slightly arrogant air

Amy Webster / L Charles
AMY WEBSTER Actress, looking like a Pre-Raphaelite model

Tunisian Beauty showing plenty of front
A beautiful Tunisian Moorish woman who decided to forgo the usual lacing up of ones bodice for a more Summery open-air look... Date: circa 1909

WWII - Pin-up showing a lot of leg, accompanied by the caption: " This Front is quite active!" Date: 1943

Three Cartier platinum and diamond bracelets Date: circa 1930s

Entomological specimens of Lepidoptera
Unidentified photograph of mounted specimens of butterflies and moths

Hairdresser on Stilts
Il faut souffrir pour etre belle - one must suffer to be beautiful

Ely Cathedral
The beautiful Western Tower of Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, England, a landmark across the surrounding Fen Country

Exotic dancer by Rene Bull
A stylised illustration by Rene Bull (1872-1942) showing a scantily clad exotic dancer in a beautiful garden hanging with fruits

Croatia / Dubrovnik
The beautiful historic city of Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic Sea coast, in the extreme south of Croatia. Date: 1975

Cinderella by Arthur Rackham
Ella, aka Cinderella, in her beautiful gown, dancing with the Prince at the Ball. Date: 1919

A New Electric Railway over the Alps
The new electric railway to Chamonix which opened in July 1901. The photographs show the beautiful scenery through which the line passes

Four Japanese women amid bamboo with a young child
Four Japanese women stand amid bamboo with a young child seated in the front and surrounded by hanging baskets of food and Japanese flags and figurines

Horstead Watermill, on the River Bure, Norfolk, was one of the most beautiful weatherboarded wooden mills in England. Tragically destroyed by fire on 23 January 1963

Elizabeth Woodville
ELIZABETH WOODVILLE Queen of Edward IV with her train held by an attendant. She was said to be extremely beautiful with blonde hair reaching to her feet

Nail Polish Remover
A beautiful art nouveau label for Wlandres Venus nail polish remover, distributed by Wadanola Beauty Supply of Syracuse, New York

Roses and the Bud by Basil Woodhouse
A romantic picture showing a young woman dressed in pink holding some blowsy roses. Date: 1928

Resplendent quetzal, Pharomachrus mocinno, and purple-rumped sunbird, Nectarinia zeylonica.. Chromolithograph by unknown artist/engraver from Mary

Ethiopian Woman - Braided Hair - Nose Ring
A beautiful Ethiopian Woman in profile, with long braided hair, jewellery and a very large nose ring. Date: circa 1910s

Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon
King Solomon is visited by Nicaule, Queen of Sheba, in Asia

The Two Young Girls - The Beautiful Rosine by Antoine Wiertz
Reproduction of the painting The Two Young Girls or The Beautiful Rosine by Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865). A pretty girl confronts her stark (and dead)

Sir Richard Aclands Gift to the Nation Starts a Controversy
The MP Sir Richard Acland handed over to the National Trust the 16, 000 acres of beautiful West Country property which comprise his Killerton Estate and his Holnicote Estate

Mount Fuji in Springtime
A beautiful spring day. Fujiyama is in the distance and blossom is on the trees in the foreground

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