Ethereal Collection

The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1
The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic. Depicting a dead soldier on a battlefield with an ethereal image of Christ on the cross shining

Wilde / The Selfish Giant
The little boy he had loved

Poe / Poem / The Raven / C19Th
The dazed & melancholy man believes the raven will leave him, as his " hopes have flown before."

Andrew Burlington ghost photograph
12 year-old Andrew Burlington holds up the photograph taken at his family home on Sunday, 30th March, 1986, which showed a strange ghostly apparition which obscured the main subject of the image (see)

A Bride-Elect of the Spring - Miss Marion Mitchell
A Bride-Elect of the Spring - To Marry Mr Ivan Stancioff - Miss Marion Mitchell, only daughter of Mrs James Mitchell. Portrait photograph by Hugh Cecil. 1924

Bride in classic 1920s bridal dress, heavily influenced by the wedding attire of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother). Date: circa 1924

Angelic women in the most wonderful photo ever taken
Two women appear angelic, dressed in flowing material as they are photographed amongst the clouds. The positioning of the women

Red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus (Ethereal tropic bird). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany

Beautiful fantasy girl admiring the blossom Date: circa 1900s

BEATRICE & DANTE: HEAVEN BEATRICE & DANTE: HEAVEN
Beatrice leads Dante to the Fifth Heaven. Date: First published: 1307-21?

ANGELS / PLANET MERCURY
The angels in the Planet Mercury: So drew full more than thousand splendours towards us. (Canto V, lines 99-100) Date: First published: 1307-21?

Milton, Paradise Lost
Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky. (Book I, lines 44, 45). Date: First published: 1667

Vision of the golden ladder
The vision of the golden ladder. Date: First published: 1307-21?

DANTE / ANGELS / PARADISE
The angelic wreaths: About us thus, of sempiternal roses, bending wreathed those garlands twain;. (Canto XII, lines 16-19) Date: First published: 1307-21?

Dante & Beatrice: Heaven
" For that all living lights, waxing in splensour burst forth into songs; Such as from memory glide & fall away." (Canto XX, lines 10-12)

Temples and pagodas at sunset, Plain of Bagan, Myanmar
Temples and pagodas at sunset on the Central Plain of Bagan, Myanmar (Burma) Date: 2016

The Frost Queen by Dudley Hardy
Fantasy Christmas illustration by Dudley Hardy showing an ethereal fairy-like figure appearing in a snowy landscape watched by two small rabbits

Midir & Etain in the Air
Midir and Etain rise up in the air

Mother Carey / Water Baby
Tom encounters Mother Carey, seated on her white marble throne, resting her chin in her hand & gazing down into the sea

Water Babies / Doasyoulike
The Doasyoulike ladies of Readymade Land gathering gossamer in autumn

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