Composition Collection (page 3)

Very surreal French pair below a hanging lantern
Very surreal French pair below a weird-floating hanging lantern. He appears to be an aesthete and writer, decadently draped in his velvet-upholstered chair

Applying anti-corrosive composition - Queen Elizabeth
After the scaling of the plates a coat of the anti-corrosive composition was applied, so that the hull could be painted in the black and white of the Cunard White Star Line

Whaling boats
A photograph from A Cruise in the Arctic (1888) by Livingstone-Learmonth

Cold Bokkeveld meteorite photomicrograph
Thin section of the carbonaceous chondrite in the petrological microscope, showing a near circular chondrule about 1mm in diameter. The fall was in Cape Province in 1838

Phallus indusiatus, stinkhorn fungus
This painting of a veiled stinkhorn was produced by Pieter de Bevere. The image originates from the Loten Collection (dated 1754-57) held at the Natural History Museum, London

Beethoven / Levy-Dhurmer
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN in the act of composition Date: 1770 - 1827

Iron Pillar - Delhi
The Iron Pillar of Delhi, India. Found in the Qutb complex and said to have been fashioned at the time of Chandragupta Vikramaditya (375413) of the Gupta Empire

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (5 / 7)
Lake Garda (Italian - Lago di Garda or Benaco) - the largest lake in Italy. A two-masted sailing barge (barque) moored up at a harbour at Riva to receive a cargo of sacks of grain. Date: circa 1910s

French trouveur - 14th century musician
A French trouveur, after a drawing from the poems of Guillaume de Machaut. Date: 14th century

Japanese Lakeside Scene
A beautifully composed, shot and reproduced postcard from Japan - of a (sadly unidentified) lakeside scene, with a large fishing boat being secured to a treeside mooring. Date: circa 1930s

Camel and Young Moroccan Boy - Two Friends Date: circa 1910

Stylish girl posing with ball
A fantastically stylish and well-compossed photograph of a young lady in a delicate white dress, posing holding a large shiny ball. Date: late 1920s

Sensitive pianist weeps, 1877
Herr Pumpernickel, a sensitive German pianist, weeps after performing a composition of his own on the piano. His host and friends look on with concern. Date: 1877

Music by King Charles I
Music and lyrics by King Charles I entitled Mark How The Blushful Morn accompanied by a stylised illustration depicting the King playing the cello while seated on the throne

Music by King Henry VIII
Music and lyrics written by King Henry VIII entitled Passetyme with Goode Company (The Kynges Balade) accompanied by a stylised illustration showing The King conducting a group of musicians

Church at Trebeurden
The Church at Trebeurden

Girl stretches over a low table
A young girl - pictured with arms stretched out over a low table. Pencil and wash sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Composing and Retouching at printing works
Composing and Retouching Studio at the Lund Humphries Printing works in Bradford. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Hand Compositor receiving spacing materials
Reserve supplies of spacing material are brought to the hand compositor so that his time is not wasted in journeys to the store at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

An advertisement for ICT
A wonderful advertising picture taken for International Computers and Tabulators, showing their office building and lines of light left by the passing traffic. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Moritz Lutzen, musical prodigy
Moritz Lutzen, a musical boy prodigy -- he composed, conducted and played the piano. His later career seemed to focus mainly on the composition of popular songs

Washing in a deserted Palace pool
A young boy washes a large platter in a courtyard pool of a desertd Palace building in Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Lesguinka Dance - Russian Cossack Dance
Lesguinka Dance - Traditional Russian Cossack Dance

Young Blind boy asleep with his mule
Deep Sleep. A young blind boy takes a snooze lying up against his faithful mule - a very attractive composition

Street Scene in Port Said, Egypt
Delightful photographic street Scene in Port Said, Egypt with a young man seated in an elaborate ornate doorway alongside a thin winding stair leading up into the town

Egyptian Oasis with Giza Pyramids in distance
A view from an Egyptian oasis toward the distinctive outline of one of the pyramids at Giza in the background. An Egyptian man brings his camel to the water to drink. A very fine composition and scene

Pyramids at Giza
The pyramids of Khufu and Khafre at Giza with the Sphinx in the foreground. A very early aeroplane flies above these wonders of the Ancient World

EARTHs INTERIOR, 1735
English geologist John Woodwards conception of the composition of the globe, with molten lava surrounded by a thick crust

Mr Burke, war photographer
Preparing a composition for a portrait of the Ameer Yakoob Khan at Gandmak

John Davies, Writer
JOHN DAVIES Poet and writing-master of Hereford : a delightful composition of cherubs, mermen and mermaids - with a skull for good measure

Blue-Flowered Shrub
A shrub with blue flowers is carefully arranged to form a striking jugendstil composition

Science / Lavoisier
ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER French chemist & founder of modern chemistry. Depicted determining the composition of the atmosphere

Spectroscope
A stars light refracted through a prism indicates its chemical composition

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 1 / 1821
RICHARD WAGNER German composer as a boy, in 1821: his parents listen as he plays his first compositions Date: 1813 - 1883

Scheele Discovers
KARL WILHELM SCHEELE Swedish chemist depicted conducting his experiments to determine the composition of air

Titanic Music Sheet
The Wreck of the Titanic, piano composition by Jeanette Forrest - The Voyage Begins - Everybody Happy and Care-free - Whistle sounds the Alarm - Nearer my God - Ship sinks

Liebig Games - 5
A boy uses a paper screen to demonstrate the composition of light, achieving a prismatic effect as Isaac Newton did before him

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