Century Collection (#12)

Kitten Tangled in Wool
" Didn t you know I could knit?" On this evidence, this kitten is a long way from knitting a woolly jumper

St Cecilia Devotional C
Roman martyr, here portrayed as the patron saint of music

Victorias Dogs
Three of her dogs - Dash, Hector and Nero - and a lory

Icis Imperial Image
ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) helps Britannia rule the waves in the great days when the word imperial is one to be proud of !

Appleby Castle, Westmld
Appleby Castle, Westmoreland (now Cumbria) : the keep, seen on the right, dates from the 12th century

Hull Shops 1970S
A typical late 20th century pedestrian shopping area. This one is in Hull, Yorkshire, England, on the corner of Parliament Street

World Known to Ptolemy
1545 map from Basel, Switzerland, depicting the world as known to Ptolemy in the 2nd century

Telesphorus Roman Deity
Roman healing deity, associated with Asclepius : personifying the hope of successful healing, he is represented as a boy in a hooded cloak

Dolly of the Chop House
Wily owner of the chop house in Queen s-head-passage, London, Dollys fame was such that she is remembered in print. Here she pours herself a medicinal drop of something

Old Dover Rd Blackheath
Old Dover Road Blackheath London SE3

Dog, 3 Cows in Field
Whos Afraid : a perky little dog keeps an eye on three cows, who seem more interested in chewing grass than bothering about him

Ghost Delivers Warning
A spectral figure materialises in a candlelit room where two men are roused from their books. The older man points ahead while the ghost points upwards. A ghostly warning?

Stowe House C18Th
Sir Richard Temples House at Stowe, designed by William Cleere & begun in 1676. This view dates from a later period when many improvements have been made. Now Stowe School

Fashionable Night-Spot
Smart people in a fashionable Paris nightclub. Dining and dancing and showing off their elegant evening clothes and dinner jacket

Jesus into Jerusalem
Jesus, riding a donkey, enters Jerusalem

Jesus Teaches to Pray
Jesus teaches his disciples how best to pray

Jesus Feeds 5000
When a crowd of five thousand, who have gathered to hear him, grow hungry, Jesus provides them with food - five barley loaves and two fishes suffice for all

Boy Jesus in Temple
Taken to the Temple, the boy Jesus astonishes the priests by his knowledge of the scriptures

Roman Warship
A warship of Imperial Rome is rowed out of harbour with only a light sail hoisted

Dance of Death / Holbein
Old or young, rich or poor, powerful or weak - whoever you are, Death insists that you join in his Dance !

Herman Melville / Century
HERMAN MELVILLE American writer

Buddha / Tibetan Temple
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) Eighteenth century Tibetan temple painting, depicting the Buddha enthroned

Mermaid of Zennor
At Zennor, Cornwall, a mermaid takes a passer-by by surprise

God and his Angels
God and his angels enthroned on high in the Heavens

Burma / Pagan / Marco Polo
The City of Mien, with the Gold and Silver Towers, visited by Marco Polo in 1282, now known as Pagan or Bagan, in Myanmar, Burma

Ascot, Circa 1818
Horse racing in the early 19th Century

Tarot Card 2 - La Papesse (The Female Pope)
Pope Joan or Joanna depicted on a tarot card. Pope Joan was a legendary female pope, thought to have reigned for a time during the Middle Ages, but probably a fabrication

Boys playing rugby football at Rugby School

Two skeletons, human and gorilla
A human skeleton compared with that of a gorilla

Jester in cap and bells
A jester, traditionally dressed in cap and bells, holding a stick with a jesters likeness, variously known as a jester stick, fools wand or ninny stick

King Ethelred II The Unready
ETHELRED II The Unready King of England (reigned 978-1013 and 1014-1016)

King Canute (Cnut)
KING CNUT / CANUTE King of England (1016-35) and Denmark (1018-35)

Nile village, Great Pyramid, Egypt
19th century vintage photograph - village and camels along the banks for the River Nile, close to the Great Pyramid of Giza. Photograph by the Zangaki studio, c.1890 s

British Countryside - The Bridge at Eynsford, Kent
British Countryside - The 15th century stone bridge at Eynsford, Kent. Date: 1938

Chalice with a paten. Vermeil. 20th century. Cabot workshop, Barcelona, 1913. Treasure of the Cathedral of Barcelona

Hundred Years War. 1337 to 1453. Battle. Miniature. 15th c
Hundred Years War. Conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453, pitted the Kingdom of England against the Valois Capetians for control of the French throne. Battle. Miniature. 15th century

Babylons lion. Lion decorated the Processional Wal (Ishtar Gate). 575 BC. Pergamon Museum. Museum Island. Berlin. Germany

Grand Canal Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia t
Canaletto (1697-1768). Italian painter. Grand Canal Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia to the Rialto Bridge, c. 1756. Detail. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

French Boules Players
Four French peasants in sabots and a barefoot boy judge the skill of the players in a game on a bumpy grassy field. Date: early 20th century

LA Boheme / Puccini / I
La BOHEME Act I: within the first few minutes of meeting, Rodolfo and Mimi declare their love for each other Date: late 19th century

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), diarist and Naval administrator. Date: 1666

Castle Hotel, Bakewell
Now called the Castle In, the premises is still in business over a century after this photo was taken. Ernest Battersby is standing in the doorway and the man sitting on the steps is named Ted Ellis

Scenery of Devon - Chagford from the hills
Victorian Glass Lantern Slide from a series on the scenery of Devon - Chagford from the hills. Part of box 204 Boswell Collection; listed, Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Boys on an 18th century fire engine, Wirksworth
Boys playing on an 18th century fire engine at Wirksworth, Derbyshire. It was believed to be the oldest fire engine in England, dating back to 1721, made by Newsome

First Authenticated Christmas Tree - Strasbourg
Christmas Tree in History and Legend: The Earliest Authenticated Christmas Tree in Strasbourg (at this time in Germany). A merchant of Strasburg (a Mr Forbes)

Spurgeon Places
Places associated with the popular preacher Charles Spurgeon. Date: 19TH CENTURY

Raquette Lake from the Crags, Adirondack Mountains. Date c1902

Among the Harbor Islands, Lake George, N. Y
Among the Harbor Islands, Lake George, N.Y.. Date c1904

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