Carved Collection (page 23)

Cradle of Henry V, donated by George V
The cradle of Henry V, donated by George V to the New London Museum, which opened in Kensington Palace in 1912. Prior to this, the cradle was at Windsor Castle

Coronation Chair, Westminster Abbey, London
The Coronation Chair, also known as King Edwards Chair, in Westminster Abbey, London, shortly before the coronation of King George V

Turkish Woman in their wagon
Turkish women with attendants in their traditional covered (and lavishly decorated) wagon, drawn by oxen

Istanbul - Ancient Fountain at Scutari (Uskudar)

A tourist before an elaborate Turkish carved alcove, showing fine technique in relief work and beautiful sculpted patternation

The Column of Theodosius - Constantinople

Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad lying in and investigating a s
Photograph of Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad lying in and investigating a sixteenth-century carved walnut bed, alleged to be haunted, at a private museum in Chiswick, 15 September 1932. HPG/1/12/2

Shakespeare statuette
A Shakespeare statuette made of mulberry wood, 15 inches high, believed to be early 17th century. It was on sale at Sotheby s, 14 July (year unknown), and was the property of Hugh Blaker (1873-1936)

Carved staircase, Cromwell House, Highgate Hill
The carved staircase in Cromwell House, 104 Highgate Hill, North London. According to tradition, the 17th century mansion was presented by Oliver Cromwell to his eldest daughter Bridget

Angola - Luanda - traditional boat
Traditional boat carved whole from the trunk of a tree - on the sea off Luanda, Angola, south-west Africa

Tophane Cesmesi Fountain, Constantinople, Turkey
The Tophane Cesmesi Fountain - one of the most famous of the baroque street fountains in the city. Built in 1732 by Mahmut I. Has marble walls, covered by floral designs and arabesques

Dyak Warrior with fantastic shield
A Dyak warrior chief from Singapore, bearing a fantastic slender leaf-shaped carved wooden shield and carrying a spear, ready to (seemingly) throw at the photographer!

Egyptian Beauty amoking
An alluring Egyptian beauty turns her gaze outwards from behind her sheer veil, as she smoking a cigarette

America. The Chinese in San Francisco. A Joss-house, or Chin
Interior hung with silks and decorated with chinese vases and table carved with animal and fish figures for Chinese traditional worship

Excavated houses unearthed at Herculaneum
An ancient Roman town unearthed beneath thirty feet of solidified mud from the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D

H Von Helmholtz / Johnson
HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ German physicist, anatomist and physiologist in 1893

Boy by Gateway - 1 of 3
A small boy leans against a doorway cut into a far larger set of impressively carved wooden doors in a gateway. He is wearing a sailor suit. (Picture 1 of 3)

Boy by Gateway - 3 of 3
A small boy stands in a doorway cut within two large intricately carved wooden gates. He is wearing a sailor suit (Picture 3 of 3)

Young Boy in Sunday Best
An angelic young boy stands before a finely carved chest in a satin suit with short trousers and sandals

Boy by Gateway - 2 of 3
A small boy leans against a doorway cut into a far larger set of impressively carved wooden gates. He is wearing a sailor suit but has discarded his cap (Picture 2 of 3)

Mrs. Mary French Sheldon, c. 1909
Photograph of Mrs. Mary (May) French Sheldon (1847-1936), the American explorer and writer, pictured with a carved elephant tusk, c.1909

Christmas Dinner 1931
A jolly group in party hats hold out their plates for freshly carved turkey during Christmas dinner at Antoines restaurant, Charlotte Street, London

China / Yungang Grottoes
YUNGANG GROTTOES in Datong City, in the province of Shansi. These buddhist caves contain about 51000 statues from the 5th century carved during the Northern Wei dynasty

Rameses Ii / Luxor Statue
RAMESES II (THE GREAT) surviving carved head at the Luxor Temple site

Luxor Temple Courtyard
Luxor Temple; courtyard surrounded by pillars and statues of Rameses II. The two tourists give a good idea of the immense scale of the carved figures

Tobacco Holder
A carved, polished wooden tobacco holder in the shape of a dog (possibly a bulldog)

Jordan / Petra El Deir
Petra: the El Deir tomb, carved out of the rock

FAN / BALLOONS / 1785
A silk folding fan with decorative carved sticks depicting various balloons and other attempts at flight, including those by Dollfus and Montgolfier

Almanack 1882
A cover design for an 1882 Almanack featuring a young boy sat symbolically on a milestone, carved with the year

Death / Marble Tomb / Malta
An elaborately carved marble tomb covering depicting an allegory of the figure of death from a tomb in the Cathedral at Victoria (Rabat) on the island of Gozo, Malta

Statue of St. Paul / Malta
Carved marble statue of St Paul in St Pauls Catacombs, Rabat

Mount Rushmore Carved Up
Supervised by Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is carved with the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and T Roosevelt, 1927 - 1941

Owen Jones Renaiss 80
Ornaments copied from enamelled earthenware, glassware, a carved wood panel and silk embroidery, mostly of the 16th and 17th centuries

Iran / Archaeology / Bisutun
The rock inscription carved in Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite cuneiform on the rock of Bisutun overlooking the main route from Babylon to Hamadan

Houseteads Mile-Castle
The interior of the mile - castle at Housesteads fort on Hadrians Wall. Housesteads contains the only visible example of a Roman hospital in Britain

Statue of Zeus, Olympia
The giant statue was carved by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC from ivory. It was slowly destroyed by fire, floods, earthquakes and landslides

Lecture / British Museum
A lecture in the Assyrian Gallery of the British Museum. The speaker points towards one of the massive carved Lion supports removed by Layard from excavations at Nineveh

Boy / Zouave Jacket / Photo
A small boy poses next to a large chair. He wears a Zouave jacket with diamond shaped ornament on the cuffs, knickerbockers, boots & white socks

Dressing Gowns 1839
Dressing gowns. Man: rose print gown, pink lapels & sash, velvet hat & gothic style slippers. Woman: vertical striped gown, full sleeves with tight cuff & yoke

Abu Simbel / Egypt / 1909
A view toward the remarkable carved guardians of the mortuary temple at Abu Simbel

Grottes Du Loup, Lourdes
In Les Grottes du Loup (Grotto of the Wolf) ten minutes walk from the Basilica, is a cave, The Palace of the Madonna, where a stone seems to have been carved in her likeness

Carved Maori House
A carved Maori house at Ohinemutu

Bearded Man 1860S
A bearded man with one hand on his hip wears collarless waistcoat & jacket with braid on the cuffs, broad silk faced lapels & with the fronts sloping away from above waist level

French Signwriter C18Th
A French signwriter astride a wooden plank pauses from painting a carved inn sign to accept a glass of red wine from a barmaid who leans precariously from a balcony. Date: 18th century

Church Altar
Harvest Festival in Bicknoller church, Somerset. The carved screen and bench ends are 500 years old

Ecuador / Ingachugana
Close to the important Ingapirca site near Canar is this site, the Ingachugana, an enclosure of carved rocks with a ceremonial altar

Notre Dame Gargoyle 1930
A gargoyle looks down over Paris from Notre Dame cathedral

Dudley Family Crest
The Dudley family crest carved into the wall of the Beauchamp Tower by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick who was imprisoned there circa 1550s

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