Half Collection (page 9)

Glazed octagonal tiles. 13th-14th centuries. Tiled Kiosk Museum. Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Funerary headstone with Greek inscription. Second half of the 1st century AD. Detail. Kerch Historical and Archaeological Museum. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ukraine

House from Sarkoz region. 19th century. Hungary
Interior of a house from the Sarkoz region. Second half of 19th century. Museum of Ethnography. Budapest. Hungary

Masks of Dionysos and Silenos. Roman relief. 2nd century AD
Roman relief depicting masks of Dionysus and Silenos. Marble. First half of 2nd century AD. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

WW2 poster, Work carefully, avoid scrap
WW2 poster, Accidents sometimes happen... Work carefully, avoid scrap. HMSO, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

Music cover, Nancy Fancied a Soldier, or Nancys Fancies, written and composed by Gus Leach, sung by Mr E Mosedale. 1880

Music cover, Jig-Saw! Albert de Courvilles 10th Hippodrome Revue, Selection arranged by Henri Juxon, music by F W Chappelle. 1920

Joseph Fesch
Cardinal JOSEPH FESCH French churchman and diplomat, half-brother of Napoleons mother, acted as negotiator between Napoleon and the Vatican. Date: 1763 - 1839

Rose & Crown, Colchester
The Rose and Crown, Colchester, a fine survival of half-timbered building. Date: 16th or 17th century

BABYs FOOTPRINT 1921
A doctor takes the footprint of a half an hour old baby in Germany. Date: 1921

Male Costume C16Th
An interpretation of C16th costume: cap with a feather, striped stockings & heeled shoes with roses, skirted doublet & an ermine lined half- gown with hanging sleeves. Date: c16th

English Costume 1675-80
Woman: simple, yet elegant gown with ornamented bodice & long cloak. Men: lace falling collar or cravat, vests which replaced doublets, fur- lined coat with half sleeves. Date: 1675 - 1680

Sir Daniel Cooper at the races wears a bowler hat, brown striped lounge suit, half boots & tan leather gloves. Date: 1908

Monocled Businessman
Colonel W J Bosworth wears a frock coat, grey striped trousers with a front crease, half boots, a wing collar, a carnation buttonhole & a monocle. Date: 1909

Morning Coat & Cigarette
Anthony Drexel wears a morning coat, trousers with a chalk stripe & front crease, all round collar, tie & black & brown half boots. He smokes a cigarette from a holder. Date: 1910

Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits, WW1
Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits. High Empire waists, short full skirts and high hairstyles. Gingham dress: plain sailor collar

Cottage at Cropthorne
A man drives a flock of sheep up a country lane past a half- timbered cottage at Cropthorne near Evesham, Worcestershire Date: 1912

Dancing the Half + Half
An American couple - he in tails, she in the attractive dress style of the period - perform this graceful step. Date: circa 1912

John Abernethy
JOHN ABERNETHY medical vignette, half-length portrait in profile, within a frame Date: 1764 - 1831

Events / Italy / Ataulf C415
Ataulf, King of the Visigoths, marries Placida, half-sister of Emperor Honorius. Date: circa 415

Coleridge / Hancock
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Writer Half-length vignette facing to the left Date: 1772 - 1834

Augusta Leigh (Hayter)
AUGUSTA LEIGH half-sister of Byron Date: circa 1800

Costume / London Fashions
Two women in London fashions - full and half dress Date: 1799

Caroline Brunswick / Wooln
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Amelia Elizabeth Caroline Queen of George IV Half-length portrait, face in profile Date: 1768 - 1821

Caroline Brunswick / Coope
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Amelia Elizabeth Caroline Queen of George IV Half-length portrait in a large plumed hat Date: 1768 - 1821

King George Iv / Thomson
KING GEORGE IV OF ENGLAND Half-length portrait in Coronation Dress Date: 1762 - 1830

King George Iv / Noble
KING GEORGE IV OF ENGLAND Half-length circular portrait surrounded by a decorative border surmounted by the Prince of Wales feathers Date: 1762 - 1830

Sir John Sinclair, Scottish politician and writer
Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835), 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (1780-1811), and Scottish writer on finance and agriculture

Mongolian horsemen
The Mongol without his pony is only half a Mongol, but with his pony he is as good as two men. It is a fine sight to see him tearing over the plain, loose bridle, easy seat

Father Christmas on a Christmas card, his lower half turned into a slim man with a cane. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Tatler front cover - Paris Collections - 1965
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model covering herself with an Ascher scarf in red, white and blue. Date: 1965

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Old Manor Houses, showing the entrance to a half-timbered building. Date: 1923

Six types of Stickleback: Rough-Tailed or Three-Spined (Gasterosteus aculeatus, also known as Barnstickle, Banstickle, Sharplin and Pricklefish), Half-Armed (Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus)

Advertising leaflet for photographic services, offering to produce enlargements for half price during the winter months, as well as postcard reproduction. Date: 20th century

Cover design, Laugh It Off Annual for 1945, bubbling with sparkling wit and humour. Showing a fun-loving young woman in a giant glass of champagne. Date: 1945

King Louis XVI in grey-white half-mourning clothes.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885

Morel, saddle and helvella mushrooms.. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from his own British Edible Fungi, London, Kegan Paul, 1891

One-colored catasetum orchid, Catasetum purum.. Handcolored copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from Sydenham Edwards The Botanical Register, London, Ridgway, 1834

Advertisement for Fenwick tailoring
Advertisement for Fenwick ladies tailoring department, , with a silhouette of tailors at work by H.L. Oakley. Tailor gowns to order, twelve and a half guineas (just over thirteen pounds)

Half-crown day at the International Exhibition, held in London in 1862. Date: 1862

America. Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794). Port of Nutka. Pen and Chinese ink drawing by Jos頃 ardero. Drawing. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Americas Museum

Fragments Reach the Stage
" Fragments" Reach the Stage A " Bairnsfather" duologue in " Half-Past Eight" Sketches of a scene from the revue, " Half-Past Eight" at the Comedy Theatre

FOGOLINO, Marcello (1483-1553). Courtiers at Malpaga Castle. 1st half 16th c. ITALY. Bergamo. Malpaga Castle. Servants bringing game dishes to table. Renaissance art. Fresco

North America. Canada. Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794). Depicting some indigenous people in Mulgraves port. Drawing. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Americas Museum

Provision of a battery to besiege (first half of the 18th c.). Engraving. SPAIN. ARAGON. Zaragoza. Academia General Militar (General Military Academy)

Man and woman dressed in the fashion of the first half of 19th c. Engraving

The Flying Pole. 2nd half 17 c. Viceroyalty of New Spain. Panel screen with genre scenes. Lower detail with pulque drinkers and fight. Mexican School. Oil on canvas. SPAIN

POSADA, Jos頇uadalupe (1852-1913). Printed songs
POSADA, Jos頇 uadalupe (1852-1913). Printed songs 1901. En alta mar (Waltz) and Dance of the forty-one. Zinc engraving printed in the press of A. Vanegas Arroyo

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