Folklore Gallery

Reconstruction of the Stone circles at Avebury, Wiltshire

Reconstruction (after J. Britton) of the Stone circles at Avebury, Wiltshire - The Great stone circle, it is said, was approached by two avenues of 200 stones each, which took a sinuous course south-east and south-west and represented a snake transmitted through a circle. Stukeley put its foundation at 1859 BC, the year of the death of Sarah, Abraham's wife (!!). The present village of Avebury has grown up amidst the stones of his ancient 'temple'. (caption text taken from the card itself) Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Yosyp Stadnyk - Ukranian Theatre director and actor

Yosyp Stadnyk (1876-1954) - Theatre director and actor. Stadnyk played over 100 roles, mostly character roles in a realist style, in plays by Mykhailo Starytsky, Marko Kropyvnytsky, William Shakespeare, Moliere, Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, and Nikolai Gogol. As a director he staged over 200 productions of dramas, operas, and operettas. Here he is taking a role in a performance of a Ukrainian epic folk ballad (duma) referred to as 'Duma about Marusya Boguslavka'. Date: 1919

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Museum of Brussels (Maison du Roi et des Corporation)

The Museum of the City of Brussels (French Mus饠de la ville de Bruxelles, Dutch Museum van de Stad Brussel) is a museum on the Grand Place square in Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to the history and folklore of the town of Brussels, its development from its beginnings to today, which it presents through paintings, sculptures, tapistries, engravings, photos and models, including a notable scale-representation of the town during the Middle Ages
1914

© The Roseries Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library