Fate Collection (page 2)

Fate by Hermann Ernst Freund (1786-1840). 1833
Hermann Ernst Freund (1786-1840). Danish sculptor. Fate, 1833. Detail. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark

Italian Military Poster, WW1
Fate tutti il vostro dovere! (Everyone do your duty.) Colour photolithograph published by the British Library, 1981. Reproduces an Italian home front poster designed by Mauzan

Fleet of warships, Bikini target, by G. H. Davis
The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon awaiting their fate. The fleet included famous American and ex-enemy warships, most of which

Mareth Line, Tunisia, by G. H. Davis
A large-scale contour map of the complicated Mareth Line in Tunisia, North Africa, where General Montgomery stated that the enemys fate would be decided

Vicar captured by Cannibals
Shakespeare Up to Date ! Quote from Pericles - Act IV. Sc. 2: " If you require a little space for prayer, I grant it

WW1 recruitment poster with silhouette
World War One recruitment poster with silhouette -- The Thin Khaki Line Keeps the Fate of Belgium from Your Hearth and Home, Get into Khaki Now! Showing a determined soldier with a bayoneted rifle

Roman Bull Sacrificed
A bull, seemingly aware of its imminent fate, is led by Roman priests to the sacrifice

Fate Magazine cover, Bridey Murphy in Ireland
Cover of Fate Magazine, depicting Bridey Murphy (alias Ruth Simmons, alias Virginia Tighe) -- the subject of a reincarnation experience visiting Ireland, home of the supposed Bridey Murphy

Grand Lama consulted on the fate of a child, Tibet, taken from Johann Grueber, an Austrian Jesuit missionary and astronomer who visited China and Tibet in the 1650s. circa 1750

An Oriental Fairy Tale - Goldbeard & the Hand of Fate
Bahama, Golden Beard, holding a Princess captive inside the magic mountain. She will later be rescued and freed from her golden fetters by a Prince who finds a miniature hand of jade. Date: 1929

The Strand Magazine, October 1917, cover
Cover of The Strand Magazine, October 1917, featuring a story by Joseph Conrad and a play called Blood and Iron, the Fate of the Kaiser

The Watchers by Tremator
A beautiful young woman sits at her desk and powders her decolletage as fate and a ghostly figure dressed a Mephistopheles lurk in the shadows watching her - a metaphor on the fleeting passage of

Myanmar - Burmese Fortunetellers. Date: circa 1909

Gladstone in 1881
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE The good people of Leeds fate him with a torchlight procession... Date: 1881

German Troops 1918
Smart young German soldiers march proudly off to the Western Front to meet their fate. Date: 1918

Captain William Harrison
The first commander of the Great Eastern, Cpt. William Harrisons fate mirrored that of the massive ship under his command, when he drowned in an accident off Southampton Date: circa 1859

Malvina Longfellow, 1915
American actress Malvina Longfellow(1889-1962), pictured in The Bystander in 1915 at the time of her London debut in Lady Levers play The Torches of Fate

German delegates listen to peace terms after WW1
The Fate of the German Empire. The German delegates listen to the reading of the Peace Terms. They are: Dr Melchior; Herr Leinert (President of the Assembly), Dr Landsberg (Minister of Justice)

Suffragette Valentine Card Handcuffs. Depicts a large pair of handcuffs and captioned I ll give you time to think it over! The, Fairest suffragette

Armed against fate and flags by F C Boyle
A man out walking his dog realises the only way he can avoid flag sellers in wartime is to go out blindfolded and with headphones on his ears

Stay! by Charles Robinson
An allegorical picture representing Britannia starting on the path of pleasure and joyousness while fate intervenes and holds her back. Date: 2nd July 1902

KOCK PHOTO
PAUL DE KOCK French humorous writer whose Dutch banker father was guillotined, vowed to laugh at anything fate dished out to him after that. Photo 1870. Date: 1793 - 1871

Kemble as Oedipus
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE the great classical actor as Sophocles Oedipus challenges Fate to find anyone as wretched as himself. Date: 1757 - 1823

WW1 - British soldiers land fish killed by shell Dardanelles
WW1 - Two British soldiers landing a fish killed by an Asiatic Annie shell fired from Turkish Fort Gunners during the Dardanelles Campaign

To mary for love or for money?
A pretty young girl is undecided whether to marry for love or for money... (see 10803887) Date: 1895

Scorchers Progress - Embankment - Errant city cyclist
The Scorchers Progress VI - The Thames Embankment, London - An errant city cyclist finally gets his comeuppance having caused havoc with his erratic cycling across the city

Jobs Resignation after receiving the successive blows of unprecedented calamities. circa early 18th century

Women playing dice in order to know when they will die. Engraving

Book of the Good and Bad luck (15th c. )
Book of the Good and Bad luck (15th c.)

Fate tutti il vostro dovere! Le sottoscrizioni al prestito si ricevono presso il Credito Italiano. A soldier pointing a finger at the viewer. Battle scene in background. Date 1917

Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth. 1st Regt. New York Fire Zouaves. Assassinated at the Capture of Alexandria, May 24th, 1861. He who noteth even the fall of a sparrow will have some purpose even in

Fate-Vos Yeux by Howard Elcock - Monte Carlo casino, 1926
Scene in the casino at Monte Carlo, where smart society in evening dress win and lose a fortune at the tables. Date: 1926

Greek Anti-Allies Propaganda Postcard
Greek anti-British/American propaganda postcard from the Second World War. The caption translates as: " Greeks! If you are sorrowful for the future of your children - pity the British children

Andree Book Cover
Andrees balloon L Aigle depicted on the front cover of a book describing his expedition, published at a time when his fate was still unknown Date: July 1897

DIMENSIONAL FATE (A L Burkholder) Earthmen explore the Fouth Dimension Date: 1934

Sleeping Beauty - 8
The Prince sees the spellbound castle from afar, and a peasant tells him the story of its fate : being a fairy-tale prince, he resolves at once to see for himself

The Water of Life
The Prince questions the Dwarf about the fate of his brothers

British Ballad, Fair Rosamond
FAIR ROSAMOND (The Fate Of - The Bower Of) Legend has it that King Henry II of England (reigned 1154 - 1189) adopted Roasmond (Rosamond Clifford) as his mistress, and that

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Naughty boy - monkey
A Monkey Trick. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a naughty boy who pokes a stick at a caged parrott, from a monkey

Humourous photographer card
A very silly postcard depicting a photographers subject suffering a rather revealing fate, falling backward over some sticks

Saint Peter receiving the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven
Saint Peter, one of the Twelve Apostles and the first Pope. Depicted receiving the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven from Jesus. His ultimate fate, crucifixion...head down

Fox Tries to Escape
The fox knows the hounds are getting closer and skulks alongside a hedge

Germanys eastern stronghold which suffered the fate of Liege and Antwerp: Men of the German Garrison at Tsing-Tau

The Potsdam Conference; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing the leaders of Great Britiain, the Soviet Union and the United States of America meeting at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

Warsaw Conference
Conference of the powers at Warsaw to consider the fate of Poland

The French Emperor visiting the French Army at Chalons; Fran
Engraving showing Napoleon III arriving at Chalons, to confer with his generals about the fate of his empire, on 16th August. By September 2nd 1870 the French army capitulated to the Prussians

Captain James Fitzjamess Cabin aboard HMS Erebus, 1845
Engraving showing Captain James Fitzjamess cabin aboard HMS Erebus, pictured shortly before departure, 1845. In 1845 the British Admiralty sent two polar exploration ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror

Fable / Two Lizards
THE TWO LIZARDS: two lizards were bemoaning their fate as lowly creatures, & wishing they d been born proud stags, when hounds tore apart the very stag they d admired

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