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WORLD ON FIRE
-The worlds on fire ! Quick, we must hold another conference ! Date: 1920

Suffragette woman in the stocks, unsympathetic cartoon
Unsympathetic comment on Votes or Women Date: 1913

GHOST OF PATROCLUS
Achilles tries - in vain - to seize hold of the ghost of Patroclus Date: BC

Giltspur Street Compter
Engraving depicting the Giltspur Street Compter in 1840. It was a compter or small prison, designed by English architect and surveyor George Dance the Younger, mainly used to hold debtors

A Mother and daughter have a duo portrait photograph taken at the American Studio, Margate Kent. The Mother has selected the dainty Japanese parasol as her shoot prop ! Date: circa 1920s

Hold Birdie, a farce, Duke of Yorks Theatre, London
Hold Birdie (Jerry), a three-act farce, at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London, starring Yvonne Arnaud and Charles Windermere

Pretty Young lady holding an elaborate bouquet Date: circa 1910s

Elderly couple brave strong winds, West Pier, St Ives
An elderly couple brave strong winds on the West Pier of St Ives harbour, Cornwall, England. Black clouds loom and the old lady holds on to her hat

Young woman on the beach in leopardprint two-piece swimsuit
Young woman on the beach in stylised leopardprint two-piece swimsuit - exact resort location unknown. Date: circa 1950s

Young girl out for stroll with Father & Grandfather, London
Young girl out for a stroll with her Father & Grandfather, London. Date: 1935

Stylised illustration depicting Fortune and Mercury
Stylised illustration depicting Fortune bearing an overflowing cornucopia and Mercury, the winged messenger god. The Vienna Secession was an art movement formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists

Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret outside their playhouse
" Y Bwthyn Bach" - a Welsh phrase which means " The Little House", inscribed over the door of a model house presented to princess Elizabeth by the people of Wales

Cyanide Sid Cooper and Chris Adams, wrestlers
Cyanide (or Cry Baby) Sid Cooper and black belt Chris Adams, taking part in a professional wrestling bout in the open air, Penlee Park, Penzance, Cornwall. Adams gets a submission from Cooper

Ernest Louis Aquilas Christophe - Le Baiser supreme
The final work by Ernest Louis Aquilas Christophe (1827-1892) entitled Le Baiser supreme ( The Supreme Kiss or The Sphinx ) (marble), exhibited posthumously at the Salon of 1892

Sri Lanka - Sinhalese Government Peon. A peon in this region was mainly an attendant, orderly, office boy or person kept around for odd jobs. Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Couple holding hands over a low wall Date: circa 1907

Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II. Statue
Ashurnasirpal II. King of Assyria (883-859 BC). Statue. 865 BC. From the Temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi, Nimrud. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Statue of Aphrodite. Idalion, Cyprus
Statue of Aphrodite, Great Goddess of Cyprus. 5th century BC. Limestone. Idalion, Cyprus. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Relief depicting a hand with an ankh or crux ansata. Egypt
Relief depicting a hand with an ankh or crux ansata. Temple of Hatshepsut. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Egypt

HRH Queen Elizabeth II - with large bouquet of flowers
HRH Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)- with large bouquet of flowers. Date: circa 1955

The New Mrs Partington. The new Mrs Partington (of the Anti-suffrage Society) Somehow the tide keeps rising! Depicts Mrs Partington in a futile attempt to hold back the huge tide of support for

STICK EM UP
Stick em up ! Boys playing with guns on the street. Date: early 1930s

The traditional costume of the Kamakura era - Japan
Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan. Date: circa 16th century

Mona Maris - Argentine Film Actress
Mona Maris (19031991) - an Argentine film actress - I am quite a big fan! Date: circa 1928

Bolivia, South America - Stone statue at Tiwanaku
A Bolivian man leaning up against a figurative statue at Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco / Tiahuanacu) - a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, South America. Date: circa 1910s

German holding up the other Central Powers
Russian caricature from WWI era showing Germany struggling to support the failing efforts of their allies, the other Central Powers, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (?). Date: circa 1917

Dick Turpin holds up fellow highwayman, Tom King Date: 1735

Force feeding a suffragette (cartoon)
A cartoon depicting a suffragette being force fed in a prison cell. Two men, a prison warder and a doctor, hold the woman down with the help of a large weight (one hundredweight)

Ancient Greek Cockfight
Two Greek youths hold out their fighting cocks to allow their instinctive hostilty to turn into aggression

Children on a frozen pond on a Christmas card
Three children sledding on a frozen pond on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Alexandra Feodorovna - wife of Nicholas II of Russia
Alexandra Feodorovna - (Alix of Hesse), (1872 - 1917). Granddaughter of Queen Victoria and wife of Nicholas II of Russia. Date: 1917

Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866, by Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). French painter. Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Elephant goad, 1802 (c); wrought iron open work staff with pointed ends; constructed from six bars, each divided by six discs which are pierced and hold a brass bell; decorated with painted gold

Mesopotamian Art. Alabaster flower vase shaped as a woman holding flowers. Dated between 700-600 B.C. It comes from Sippar. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Advertising Postcard for Afrana Sewing Machines produced by Biesolt & Locke of at the Meissen Sewing Machine Works, Meissen, Saxony, Germany

Two men wrestling. Date: 1960s

Palmyra, Syria - Bedouin Shepherd holding a young lamb. circa 1980s

Portrait of Don Francisco de Lardizabal (ca. 1750-ca. 1818), 1
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. Don Miguel de Lardizabal, 1815. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic

Sacred Basin. Gudea Period. 2144-2124 BC
Sacred Basin. Gift of Gudea, governor of Lagash, to the temple of the God Ningirsu. Gudea Period. 2144-2124 BC. Relief depicting winged goddess reaching and holding a round based vessel

Portraits of Rogier Le Witer, Catharina Behaghel and Magdale
Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Flemish painter. Portraits of Rogier Le Witer, Catharina Behaghel and Magdalene de Cuyper, c. 1635-1636. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Card and Backgammon. Fight over Cards, 1620-1630, by Theodoo
Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637). Flemish painter. Cards and Backgammon. Fight over Cards. 1620-1630. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Finland. Helsinki. The torchbearer lamps by Emil Wikstrom (1
Finland. Helsinki. The torchbearer lamps. Two of the four monumental granite sculptures in Finnish romantic style, designed in 1904 by architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950)

Saint Paul (5-67 AD). Statue by Paolo Romano (ca. 1445-1470)
Italy. Rome. Saint Angelo Bridge. Statue of Saint Paul the Apostle (5-67 AD), 1464, by Paolo Romano (ca.1445-1470). Marble

Berlin Goddess. 580-560 BC. From Keratea
Berlin Goddess. 580-560 BC. Kore from the cemetery of Keratea (South of Attica). Detail. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Summer evening at Hammars repair yard, 1885, by Albert Edel
Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905). Finnish painter. Summer evening at Hammars repair yard, 1885. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark

Parthenon. Metope XXIX. Centaur holding a fighter defeated
Greek Art. Metope on the south side of the Parthenon. 5th century B.C. A Centaur holding a fighter defeated. Metope XXIX. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London. England. UK

Comerton Home, Newport-on-Tay, Fife
Children and staff in front of the Comerton Home, near Newport, Fife. Toys include a rocking horse and dolls house. Two boys hold tennis rackets. Date: circa 1905

Helena, Saint and Roman Empress
Helena, Roman empress and Saint - (c.250 - c.330) - Wife of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, and mother of Constantine the Great

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