Heavens Collection

Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth
Tsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings

W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, To the Last Drop. A justly incensed spouse shouts, Good Heavens, hes got the thermos as her husband falls over a cliff

God and his Angels
God and his angels enthroned on high in the Heavens

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 !)

Wotan and Frea look out from the windows of the Heavens

Planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with walls on either side of the Heavens, a transparent firmament, a reservoir of waters above the planet, and above them the Empyrean vault

BLUNT / ORION / 52 / 1849
The constellation of Orion, one of the most brilliant in the heavens

Astronomy / Greenwich 1911
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The Astronomer Royal, Mr Frank Dyson, taking a reading with an altazimuth (a theodolite for determining the altitudes and azimuths of the heavens)

Comic postcard, I dreamt I was married
Comic postcard, Man has nightmare - I dreamt I was married!! Date: 20th century

At last I heard a voice up on the slope cry to the summit, is there any hope. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, The Vision of Sin. Date: c.1920

Advertisement for Osram lamps - arm stretches down from the Heavens Date: 1919

THE HEAVENS (KRAUS)
Six angels take our Earth up into the Heavens, where God the Father and his son Jesus sit on the North Pole and the Spirit flutters above, while angels dance and sing for joy Date: 1694

9TH CENTURY SCHOLAR
A medieval scholar looks to the heavens for inspiration Date: 9th century

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

PTOLEMAIC SYSTEM /
Plan of the Heavens, showing Ptolemys explanation for the eccentric movement of the Sun round the Earth, in relation to the Fixed Stars and Planets Date: 17th century

Mexico - Cathedral, Mexico City. The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heavens is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico

Front Cover of Balls Popular Guide to the Heavens Date: 1910

National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. Deputation to Mr. Asquith on Womans Suffrage. Cartoon shows the male voter in a lock, captioned, Good Heavens, if she opens that lock, I shall be drowned

THOMAS DICK / 1774-1857
THOMAS DICK Scottish scientific writer, author of The Christian Philosopher and The Sidereal Heavens Date: 1774 - 1857

Atlas Carrying World
Atlas, a Titan who was punished for rebelling against the Gods by being made to carry the heavens on his shoulders; later he was turned to stone, becoming the Atlas Mountains

Dominic Meets Francis
Saint Dominic meets Francesco d Assisi, both equally unaware that their encounter is being watched by God and Mary from the heavens above Date: 1170-1221

The Heavens
The Christian concept of the heavens Date: medieval

The flag / crest of the Viceroy of India
The flag/crest of the Viceroy of India displayed the Star of the Order beneath the Tudor Crown. Date: circa 1910s

Discussion about a patient - WWI humour
Lady Visitor: Thats a bad case - what are you going to do with him Orderly: Oh, es going back again to the front. Lady Visitor: Good heavens - whatever for Orderly: E thinks e know who done it

Atlas
Model of the titan Atlas in the Visions of Earth gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

Galileo points to the heavens

Dragon rising to the heavens. Print shows a serpent or dragon ascending on a cloud to the top of a mountain. Date 1897

The heavens in November

LA Salle in the Heavens
JEAN-BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE French churchman, educator and benefactor, founder of the Freres Chretiens, finds himself surrounded by cherubs when he gets to Heaven. Date: 1651 - 1719

The Meteora, Greece - Kalabaka
The Meteora (" suspended rocks", " suspended in the air" or " in the heavens above" ) - one of the largest

Iris Makes Rainbow
In pre-scientific days, rainbows were credited to Iris, the messenger of the gods : the rainbow was the bridge whereby she came down from the heavens

Delhi Observatory - Janter Manter. Built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur in 1710

Planets - Title Page
Title page of Planetarum effectus, showing Jove/Zeus with eagle and thunderbolts, ruling the heavens of which he has a cosmic blueprint with the zodiacal signs

Futurist Portrait
- Thank heavens, Mummy is never going to know that I sat for this portrait !

Clytie a Sunflower
When the sea-nymph Clytie is deserted by her lover the sun- god Apollo, she is changed into a sunflower, her face turned towards him as he crosses the heavens daily

TITANS
The Titans - a race of giants - seek to scale the heavens by piling mountains upon one another, but Zeus hurls his thunderbolts and they are thrown into the Underworld

Three Ladies in a Car
Three ladies, who evidently spend a good deal of time in the sun at heavens knows what risk to their complexion, drive in their convertible with the windscreen down

Observing the Heavens
Two young sixteenth century astronomers contemplate the sun, moon and stars while their elderly colleague contemplates the consolations of philosophy

Earth Touches Heavens
Earths junction with the heavens

Atlas and the eleven spheres of the heavens

The Heavens Open
The Heavens opened

Herakles and the Heavens
He holds up the sky

Hamper Hypothesis 4
THE HAMPER HYPOTHESIS - 4 The child, who arrives fully dressed, turns out to be a boy - Gracious heavens ! they exclaim, Its just what we always wanted !

Marriage Made in Heaven
A MARRIAGE MADE IN THE HEAVENS - at San Antonio, Walter Stowe weds Mary Shelton at 800 metres

Nu Kua Shih
The goddess Nu Kua, half woman, half dragon, created the first humans out of clay. She also repaired the sky & heavens after a great battle

Hindu New Year
INDIA The women of a Hindu household offer food to the gods of the heavens in the traditional Pongol new year ceremony

Rhino and Telescope
A bird invites the rhinoceros to examine the heavens through his telescope

The Radios Lies
The Radios lies are enough to make the Heavens weep !

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