Heads Collection (page 3)

Funeral of General Simon Fraser, 8 October 1777, the day after the Battle of Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Date: 1777

Comic postcard, Two babies in a pram - twins Date: 20th century

Indigenous group with paniers, Madagascar
Vintage 19th century photograph: indigenous group of three women and a man, the women with paniers on their heads, Madagascar

Smyrna! A case in which, in the opinion of the British lion, two heads are not better than one! Cartoon about the Koszta Affair in 1853

Railway Mania - illustration by Alfred Crowquill - a steam train running out of track as it heads to the edge of the precipice... Date: 1845

Strength in Bronze, sculptures by Dora Gordine
Page from The Graphic reporting on the bronze sculptures by a young Russian girl, Dora Gordine, at the Leicester Galleries in 1928. Date: 1928

Lord Thomas Darcys monument in St. Botolph s
Lord Darcies monument in St. Botolphs church, Aldgate. Lord Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy, depicted wrapped in a shroud. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members

Etruscan warriors hit by Greek arrows at the siege of Thebes. Etruscan warriors attempt to scale the walls of the city with ladders, shields. From an alabaster urn in the Volterra museum

WW1 - German soldiers pose on a battle-scarred French street
A fascinaing WW1-era postcard showing a large group of German soldiers posed in the setting of a battle-scarred street scene in France (note the sign Restaurant Jeanne D Arc - number 19)

Cartoon, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (Disraeli, Gladstone)
Cartoon, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose -- a satirical comment on the rivalry between Disraeli (left) and Gladstone (right) over the electoral reform question

Pretty girls with holly
Heads of two young girls in tam o shanters bearing Xmas holly. Date: 1904

Young faces
Heads of two young girls with garlands in their hair. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1901

Cartoon, The Protection Giant -- Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum! I smell the Blood of an Englishman; Be he Alive, or be he Dead, I ll grind his Bones to make my Bread

His Duty Done by Frederic Villiers
French soldier leaving the trenches for the last time on a stretcher, comrades bow their heads in respect

Entrance of the Presidencial Palace (Vina del Mar), Chile - two reproduction Easter Island Heads (Moai) stand guard before the gateway

Twenty masked musicians and dancers emerge
Twenty masked and costumed musicians and dancers emerge from four monstrous heads. Dance of the Nations, part of the celebrations of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemberg, 1616

Ancient Egyptian and other heads
Egyptian head from the Kircherian Museum 1, and other heads from the Borgiano Museum in Velletri 2, 3. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own

Three vases in different forms
Tripod form vase with goats heads, globular vase with festoons, with vase with reliefs of Cupid under a tree. Chromolithograph by W

Large vase in crystalline agate decorated with animal heads. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood

Surtout or centerpiece from Saintes, France, decorated with female heads and foliage in green and gold. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French

Ancient dart and arrow heads. Various arrow heads 1-8, brass dart head 9, iron dart head 10, and iron dart head for a catapulta or mangonel

Tomb of a Guinean king, guarded by warriors, and decorated with severed heads on spears, offerings, plates and urns. Men sacrificing more victims in the background

Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. On his shoulders is the helmet that made him invisible, his sword Harpe and under his cloak is the severed head of Gorgon Medusa

Roman peasants with babies in baskets, Italy
Three Roman peasants with babies in baskets on their heads, Italy. Date: early 19th century

Cartoon, Respectable People - portrait heads. 1870

Nice Carnival by Webster Murray
In Good King Carnivals Reign. An impression of Carnival Time in Nice, especially drawn for The Bystander by Webster Murray. Date: 1925

Supreme Deity Amaterasu
The supreme deity who according to the Japanese created the world. Amaterasu is known as the supreme Japanese deity. Records of her worship have been found in some of the oldest records of Japanese

The Monthly Nurse (a woman who looked after a mother and her baby after childbirth). Date: 1840

Ambrosius Ehinger en route for New Granada
Ambrosius Ehinger, a German conquistador, heads on horseback with a contingent of men through the jungle towards New Granada, where he has been appointed governor by the Welser family. Date: 1529

Balboa attacked by the Dabaibe Indigenous people
Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his men fight with the indigenous people that lived in the Dabaibe region of what is now Columbia

Kayan men in long house with skulls, Borneo, SE Asia
Kayan men sitting on the floor of a long house with war trophy skulls on display, Borneo, SE Asia (then part of the British Empire). Date: 1922

Man with two monkey heads, East Africa
Man holding two monkey heads, somewhere in East Africa, then part of the British Empire. The types of monkey are Cercopithecus (left) and Colobus (right). Date: 1922

Two girls with beaded headdresses, Nigeria, West Africa
Two girls with shaved heads and beaded headdresses (coronets), Nigeria, West Africa. Date: 1922

Music cover, National Anthems of the Allies, WW1
Music cover, National Anthems of the United Allies (Britain, France, Russia and Belgium), First World War period. With portraits of King George V, President Poincare, Tsar Nikolai and King Albert

Cartoon, Tailors make a Man. circa 1833

New Year card in the shape of a bell, with angels and cherubs. Date: circa 1890s

France 1789, French Revolution
France 1789 by J H Banks - French Revolution. 1789

Wedding card in the shape of a bell. (1 of 3) circa 1890s

Slaves for sale, New Orleans, 1861
Engraving showing a row of slaves, lined up prior to auction in New Orleans, USA, 1861. Seven men in top hats and suits, four women in calico dresses and two children are ready to be sold

During the winter festivals in Europe paraded the streets and entered houses to dance or play dice in silence. Date: 13th - 16th century

EMPRESS AND HEADS
The dowager empress Tz u-Hsi shows the emperor Kuang-Hsu the heads of mandarins suspected of sympathising with the Russians, whereas she supported the Boxer Rising Date: 1904

FLIGHT / AIRFIELD
A light aeroplane comes in to land over the heads of watchers in a car Date: 1935

A group of BONZES - Buddhist priests, with shaved heads Date: 1890s

The Oxford Street bus heads for the Bank : St Mary-le-Bow church stands behind it. Date: Circa 1840

Double-Decker with a View Date: 1947

Close Couple with Car Date: 1938

Le Jeu de Quiller Allied soldiers playing skittles
No. 8/15. Le Jeu de Quiller. Allied soldiers playing skittles - the skittles are made as models of the Heads of the Central Powers. Leon

Advert for International Fur Store 1907
Selection of womens winter stoles and muffs. Date: 1907

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