Finds Collection

Leon Trotsky in Mexico
The Bolshevik leader finds refuge in Mexico. Leon Trotsky pictured here with his wife on the left of the photograph and Senora Rivera (Frida Kahlo), wife of artist Diego Rivera

Pride and Prejudice
Mr Darcy finds Elizabeth Bennet tolerable

Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Portrait of Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890 - 1976), archaeologist and broadcaster, seated at his desk in the British Academy. Through the medium of television

Folklore / Fairies / Doyle
AN ELF-FAIRY ROMANCE (picture 2 of 3) He finds her, and this is the consequence

Battle of Gibraltar
The battle of Gibraltar : a Dutch fleet finds the Spanish fleet in the bay of Gibraltar, and completely destroys it

Pyramus & Thisbe
Babylonian maiden Thisbe has assignation with Pyramus but flees from lion; he finds her bloody veil, cries Can this be Thisbe ? stabs him- self, she arrives, does same

Sita Finds Rama
SITA finds RAMA (seventh avatar of Vishnu) among the lotus blooms : at first he suspects her of infidelity, but the pair are reunited and live happily ever after

Little Miss Muffet (K. G
She upsets her stool when she finds a - really, rather small - spider sharing it with her

Fighting the Sioux
The U.S. government finds itself continually having to fight the Sioux, who fail to see that the white mens intentions are for their good

Gold, Silver, Lapis and Obsidian in the Splendid Swords of the Kings - The Royal Treasure of Dorak c.3000 BC - report of the finds from the excavations by James Mellaart, Assistant Director

Wife Catches Husband 19C
Realisation: the wife finds her erring husband dining with two strange women

The man in the Moon
A boy, retrieving his kite from the branches of a tree, finds himself confronted by the Man in the Moon

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476

Junction Picture
A medieval missionary finds a place where the Earth touches the Heavens. (Note that this is not a medieval illustration but a very clever 19th century pastiche !)

Crusoe & Footprint
Crusoe finds the footprint of Friday and realises that he is not the only inhabitant of the island

Girl finds sleeping chick in her dolls house Date: 1925

Jacques Aymar finds a thief
French sourcier Jacques Aymar directs his baguette at four prisoners to learn which of them committed a robbery.. Date: 1688

Preparing for Sabbat
The master of the house investigates noises in his wine-cellar, finds his domestic staff taking the evening off on their broomsticks

Levitation Seance
At a dramatic seance, one of the sitters finds himself levitated while all kinds of trickery is in progress

ALICE / DRINK ME
ALICE SHRINKS AND STRETCHES Alice finds the bottle labelled Drink Me

WW2 - Paddy Finds A Family
A WW2 short story illustration which shows a mother and child searching the wreckage of a home that has been devastated by an enemy air raid, a warden helps them, the child races towards a poor dog

The Moss Gear Company of Birmingham
The Moss Gear Company finds its origins, in Aston Manor, Birmingham, in 1910. Those engineers who established the company were not named Moss, but Duckitt

Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops, an establishment which finds work for men who have become permanently disabled on active service

Archaeological dig at Glastonbury
Archaeological finds for a dig in Glastonbury summerset. Seen are the Timber Foundation and Palisading at the Glastonbury Lake Village, a ladder found, a reaping-hook and some weaving combs

Fable - the Young Widow
THE YOUNG WIDOW A widow who inconsolably mourns the death of her husband finds in time that she is ready to meet suitors and wed again Date: circa 1870

ROMEO & JULIET/DEATH
Act V, Scene III Final scene: Romeo finds Juliet & believes her to be dead Date: Nineteenth century

GOLDMARK/SABA LIEBIG 6
Act 4 final scene : Assad finds Shulamith in the desert, but, exhausted, dies in her arms after they sing of their future bliss in heaven : the chorus share their raptures. Date: first performed 1875

Lady Lyonesse and Dwarf
The Lady Lyonesse questions Sir Beaumains's dwarf & finds out that the knight is the son of a king & that his true identity is Sir Gareth of Orkney

Dead girld finds her friends nor=t missing her
The dead girl returns - and finds her former friends feasting with no thought for her

Early Anglo-Saxon Gold Buckle and Pairs of Clasps with bronze vessel found in a grave mound - Taplow, Buckinghamshire - 6th to early 7th century - now in the British Museum. Date: 1920s

Medieval knight in armour finds a murdered monk on the road. Sir Ethelbert discovers a monk in trouble. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from The

Dr Schliemanns Trojan antiquities on view, London 1877
The antiquities found at Hissarlik (Hisarlik, modern Turkey), on the plains of Troy, by Heinrich Schliemann during his remarkable excavations

ILN cover - Golden head-dress of Queen Shub-ad
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing a photograph of a reconstruction of a 5000 year-old head dress found at Ur, Iraq, in the royal Graves at Ur excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley. 1928

A statue of King Tutankhamun
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring a statue of Tutankhamun on guard at his sepulchre for 3000 years. It was one of the life size statues standing either side of a sealed door which

Found Bronzes - Archaeology
Bronzes - Archaeology - found in Galloway (1 and 2), Fairholm, Lockerbie (3), and Barnhill, Dumfries (4). 1863

MONKEY AND DOLPHIN
THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN The dolphin thinks it has saved a man from the shipwreck, but finds its only a monkey

Trageagle Ghost
The ghost of Tregeagle, an evil-doing Cornishman, seeks nightly to escape his prison, Dozmary Pool; but every night he finds the Hounds of Hell awaiting him

DAPHNIS
Daphnis, a Sicilian shepherd, son of Hermes, not only has a romantic affair with Chloe but finds time to invent pastoral poetry, with a little help from Pan and the Muses

ARTHURS BROTHERS BONES
He finds the skeletons of his brothers

Child finds a crab on its toe
Children playing in the shallows discover a crab at the end of one of their toes. Date: 1922

DINOSAURS / NOAHS ARK
Noah finds that the dinosaurs are too large to be saved in his Ark

HEAVEN AND EARTH
A medieval missionary finds a place where the Earth touches Heaven. Date: Medieval

Killed by a Falling Bell
A bell-ringer at Frisbourg (Switzerland) finds the bells toll for him.... Date: 1909

Secret Garden / Mary / Door
Mary finds the door. Date: First published: 1911

Ufos / Reichs Cloudbuster
Wilhelm Reich finds that his weather-influencing devices also affect UFOs, and could perhaps destroy them; here he is operating one of his instruments

Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland
Not for the first time Dorothy Lamour finds herself wearing a sarong in an exotic location, in the arms of Ray Milland; in George Archainbauds film she learns how to kiss... Date: 1938

Butterfly Bombs Warning Notice, Italy, 1944
Photograph of a British sargeant looking at a warning notice, regarding Butterfly anti-personnel mines in Italy, during the Second World War

John Bull & Yellow Peril
John Bull finds his ambitions in the Far East threatened by the Yellow Peril

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