Flaming Collection

Chromolithograph Devotional Card - The Virgin Mary 1911

Christmas scene with Santa Claus and yule log. There are rabbit musicians, geese pulling the log, a pudding, a boars head, and people carrying flaming torches. 19th century

Bristol Type 188
Engineers Working on the Bristol Type 188 Supersonic Experimental Test-Bed Aircraft Parked at Filton, UK Preparing for Test on the de Havilland Gyron Junior Jet-Engine Date: 1960s

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906 with an illustration of a young girl trying to force feed her terrier dog Christmas pudding. Date: 1906

Ginger by Barribal
Portrait of a pretty young woman with flaming red hair by the artist William Barribal. Date: 1914

Torch Ride / Greece / Liebig
A ceremonial ride with flaming torches to celebrate a victory in Ancient Greece

Greek Relay Race
A relay race with a flaming torch instead of a mere baton

Miss Arizona tomahawk juggler
Miss Arizona of the music hall act The 3 Arizonas, tomahawk jugglers. Also juggled knives and flaming torches. Wearing Wild West costume with fringed trousers, knotted scarf

WW2 Valentines Card, Wartime Fireman
A WW2 Valentines greetings card, You set my heart on fire! The image portrays a wartime warden hosing water on a flaming heart. Date: circa 1940s

Two dancing features from the Screen, December 1923: Lady Bancroft (Patricia Prevoss) with Lou Mason in Flaming Youth (First National) and a scene from The Darling of the Rich (Vitagraph) Date: 1923

WW2, Jackie Saves An Airman
This illustration shows Jackie, a fictional WW2 lady of the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps, bravely pulling a British airman away from his flaming wreck of a plane. Date: circa 1940s

The Flaming Torch
This painting depicts the back of a man, standing from an elevated position with a flaming torch in his hand, possibly a leader figure to the onlooking crowd below him

Hermes and Iris
A painting depiction of what might be the Greek Goddess, Iris, with her symbolic jug of water, and Hermes, with his flaming red hair and dagger

Salvation Army Advertisement
An advertisement for the Salvation Army, a charitable organization founded in 1865. Titled Brightening darkest England, the illustration for this advert shows a flaming torch being held

Satirical cartoon, A Senatus Consultum. Napoleon is making his will and consulting the Devil about his fate. The Devil carries a flaming plaque: Death Bonaparte Death'

CATACOMBS, ROMEC
Visiting the Catacombs of the early Christians, Rome, carrying flaming torches to illuminate the caverns

Link extinguishers
In Victorian times well-to-do householders would hire a link boy - a boy or young man who carried a flaming torch called a link to light the way for the traveller

Flaming sword, Vriesea splendens (Tillandsia splendens). Chromolithograph from an illustration by B. Herincq from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Queens tears plant, Billbergia nutans. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Glory tree, Clerodendrum splendens (Splendid clerodendron, Clerodendron splendens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G

COMMUNE / ON THE BARRICADE
A defiant woman Communard holds aloft the red flag as she stands on a barricade erected to defend Paris from government troops Date: 1871

GREECE / MILITARY RIDE
A ceremonial ride with flaming torches to celebrate a victory Date: circa 500 BC

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

SACRED HEART OF JESUS
THE SACRED HEART Mary and Joseph have a dramatic aerial vision of their sons heart, bleeding, flaming, wrapped in thorns but lighting up the heavens

Warehouse fire, Manchester
Simon Snorkel is used to fight a warehouse blaze at night in Shudehill, Manchester Date: circa 1969

Ancient artist at work in a cave, Kazakhstan area
Andronovo culture, ancient artist painting petroglyphs on the rocks, conveying the culture and customs of the times, Kazakhstan area. Others watch, or help by supplying light from a flaming torch

American Hot Rod postcard - for sticking on ones car bumper, luggage, walls, dens, offices and factories! " These humorous signs are easy to apply

Badge of S. H. A. E. F
Badge of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (abbreviated as SHAEF, pronounced " shafe" ), the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe

Walpurgis Night
On WALPURGISNACHT, the eve of May Day, witches gather on the Brocken, the highest point of Germanys Harz Mountains, for their Spring Sabbat

Kathleen Clifford - Who is Number One?
Still from Paramount Picture Production Who Is Number One? - starring Kathleen Clifford (1887 - 1962) in the role of Aimee Villon

Link Boy, 18th Century
A barefoot LINKBOY carries a flaming torch with which he will illuminate the path of a gentleman, in the absence of any fixed street lighting

Fantastic Adventures - Secret of the flaming ring
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1951, featuring the story Secret of the flaming ring by P. F. Costello. A young beautiful woman and a futuristic looking warrior are surrounded by flames

Four oval vignettes on a Christmas card, with Cupid kneeling by a flaming altar, Venus in a shell, Cupid again with doves, and a young man planting a tree

Snow scene with skaters on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The Still Alarm by Joseph Arthur
Inside page of a promotional flyer for The Still Alarm by Joseph Arthur. (fourteenth Street Theatre, New York, 30th July 1887). First produced in England Princesss Theatre, 2nd August 1888

WW1 - Zeppelin downed over Potters Bar
WW1 - An illustration depicting the four stages of a Zeppelin raider bursting into flames, and its fall through the starry night sky over Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England

The great Sylt raid by G. H. Davis
The great Sylt raid: a bomber attacks in the glare of searchlights, flaming onions and bursting star shells. Attacking Hornum, the seaplane base on the southern end of the German island of Sylt

British night bombers by G. H. Davis
British night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War

Elijah taken to heaven in the chariot of fire
Elijah taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire. circa late 19th century

Cupid with flaming torch and flower. Engraving, probably by (or after) Thomas Holloway, from Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden: a poem in two parts. Page viii, Proem of Vol. 2. Date: 1791-94

Advertisement for a Guiel Automobile
The first poster design from the French Car Manufacturer Delahaye. Date: 1899

Mythological Buddhist or Hindu figure, full-length, standing, facing front, with long green sash and flaming green halo behind his head. Date 1878?

Wedding of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
State Entry into Berlin of Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921) and Prince Wilhem of Prussia (later Kaiser Wilhelm II) (1859-1941)

Patriotic Italian postcard featuring an athletic barely-clad man before a flaming altar and a crown of thorns, definitely stressing the importance of some form of personal sacrifice being beneficial

Greek fire on lance
An infantryman carries a flaming lance

Greek fire launcher
Machine for attaching Greek fire to fortress gates

Greek fire ship
A 13th century covered galley, equipped to drop barrels of Greek fire

The war in America: a night alarm in the Federal camp
Night scene with Federal soldiers signalling with a flaming torch over the river banks of the Potomac to Headquarters at Washington

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