Idol Collection

Tatler cover - Ronald Colman and his Sealyham Terrier
Film star Ronald Colman (1891-1958) pictured on the front cover of The Tatler with his Sealyham Terrier in 1931. Date: 1931

Bardelys The Magnificent, by Hamilton and Sabatini
Bardelys The Magnificent, by Henry Hamilton and Rafael Sabatini, from Sabatinis novel (1906)

Rudolph Valentino / Mail
RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol with his fan mail Date: 1895 - 1926

Man with a glass. (2800-2300B. C. ). Cycladic Art. Ancient per
Cycladic Art. Ancient period II. Greece. Man with a glass. Canonical style. Belongs to the Syros phase (2800-2300 b.C.). Museum of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art. Athens. Greece

Charlemagne
CHARLEMAGNE as Catholic ruler preceded by Charles Martel, accompanied by the defeated Wittekind, followed by his successors, tramples on the pagan idol Irminsul

Procession of Idols, China, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Wooden carved idol Kivvasa found in a charnel house in Secoton, North Carolina. In bead necklaces, deer-skin jacket and apron skirt, beaded mocassins

Ceremonial costume of a King of Tahiti. Perhaps Otoo, King Pomare I. He wears a tall headdress of feathers, a cloak and tunic, and holds a large carved wooden deity. Roi de Taiti

Celtic phallic idol. From Paderne, Galicia, Spain
Celtic phallic idol. From Paderne (La Coruna province, Galicia, Spain). Archaeological and History Museum (San Anton Castle). A Coruna, Galicia, Spain

Ancient Germanic gods: Irmensula, Crodo and Prono
Ancient Germanic deities: Irmensula, god of the Saxons and Westphalians depicted in medieval armour 1, Crodo or Cronus (Saturn) with spear and shield 2, and Prono or Brennus

Le Ciel - Paris Cabaret Nightclub - Adoration of golden pig
Le Ciel - Montmartre, Paris Cabaret Nightclub

Aztec Statuettes - Idols - In the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City. Date: 1910s

Indian Idol in the grounds, Sandringham, Norfolk - Painted by artist Charles Howard for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Idol Vitzliputzli (Huitzilopochtli). Mexican idol. Engraving

Idol in Red Idol Gorge, on the road to Gyantse

Idols in monastery at Gyantse, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa

Canton. Candelabra before the Idol of Longevity
Pierre Joseph Rossier. Views in China issued by Negretti and Zambra in 1859 and 1861. First Series and second series

Greta Garbo in Mata Hari
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) playing the title role in the 1931 film Mata Hari'. Date: 1931

Wooden anthropomorphic figure. Chimu culture
Wooden anthropomorphic figure. There were idols and depictions of ancestors In the temples and shrines. Chimu culture. Late Intermediate Horizon (1000-1470 AD). Peru. Museum of the Americas

Caricature illustration, showing man coming in from gardening, treading clay into to neat living room carpet, with woman looking away in despair

Caricature illustrations by H M Bateman of a man speaking at a party and at dinner. Captioned, The Raconteur: a suburban idol'

May Palfrey in The Ladies Idol Date: 1890s

Cartoon, Henry Irvings return from America - The peoples idol is none the worse for his sojourn in America. Showing the famous actor-manager smoking a cigar and sitting on a pile of money. 1885

Statue of an Egyptian female idol in black marble found in the Canopus of Hadrians Villa at Tivoli

Bust of the Egyptian idol Canopus, god of water, in basalt found in the Canopus of Hadrians Villa at Tivoli

Statue of an Egyptian idol in diaphanous robe holding an ankh and lotus. Found in the Canopus of Hadrians Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate engraving by G. Bossi after an illustration by G

Moorish idol, grey angelfish, and rock beauty
Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus, grey angelfish, Pomacanthus arcuatus, and rock beauty, Holacanthus tricolor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Plee Jr

Tattooed or scarified guards at the door to the Queens Palace, Tandi, Angola. There are 500 guards, with three at the main door: two seated with clubs, and one standing with spear, bow and arrows

Interior of a Chinese temple at Kupang, Timor, 19th century

Interior of a Morai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii (Atooi). Interior of a long house or mana in the heiau (morai) at Waimea with carved representations of the gods

Hawaiian natives offer a sacrificial pig to Captain James Cook before 12 priests and a wooden idol in the sacred Orono house

Worshippers making offerings to a statue of Buddha or Fo in a banyan tree, Vietnam

Chinese gods of desire, immortality, etc
Statues of Chinese gods: Kin-gan or Chin-hoan, god of tutelage, Ni-ni-fo or Fo-tek god of voluptuousness, and god of immortality with deer and crane

Busts of sacred idols of the Aztecs, Mexico

Ancient Peruvian utensils and tools, including Inca tomb A, B, pendant in gold and silver C, copper axe heads D, mirrors called Inca-rirpo E, F, G, stone axe H, pins I, L, M, clip K

Costumes of religious elite of Ouidah, Benin, and an idol of black clay with a crown of lizards, snakes and feathers seated on a pedestal

Giwon Deity
Japanese deity Giwon also known as the Prince of Heaven with the head of an Ox. Date: 1731

Xaca, Japanese Deity
Japanese deity Xaca Date: 1737

Idol of Canon
Canon idol (also referred to as kannon, kwannon) Date: 1737

Japanese Preacher
A Japanese Preacher haranguing (preaching to) the people who are assembled to worship their Tuteler-Idol. Date: 1760

Japanese Buddhist Deities Tiedebaik and Amida
Japanese idols Tiedebaik and Amida. Amida is a Buddha who rules over paradise, enjoying endless and infinite bliss. Date: 1737

Japanese Matsuri Festival
Matsuri is the Japanese word for a festival or holiday. In Japan festivals are usually sponsored by a local shrine or temple

RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol who died at a tragically young age Date: 1895 - 1926

RUDOLPH VALENTINO / BANKY
RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol with Vilma Banky in The Son of the Sheik Date: 1895 - 1926

Hera bull idols from Tiryns, Greece
Hera bull idols from Tiryns, an archaeological site in Mycenae, Greece. Date: BCE

Statue of the Buddhist divinity Kuveraa in the grounds of Sandringham, Norfolk

Minoan Art. Crete. The younger snake goddess, from the palac
Minoan Art. Island of Crete. The younger snake goddess, from the palace of Knossos. C. 1600 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Greece

Advertisement for Pebeco toothpaste, recommended by doctors and dentists. Free sample from P Beiersdorf & Co, Idol Lane, London. Date: 1914

The Adoration of the Golden calf. Engraving. Colored
The Israelites worshiping of the Golden calf during Moses absence. Engraving. Colored

Prehistory. The wooden idol from Pohjankuru. Finland, ca. 30
The wooden idol from Pohjankuru. Southern Finland, dates from ca. 3000 BC and is the oldest known portrait of an inhabitant of Finland. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) by Hartmann Schedel. 1493. IllustratorMichael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Language: Latin, German. Engraving

Sacrificed to Idol
DAHOMEY A native is sacrificed, slowly and uncomfortably, to please the idol in the nearby hut Date: 1905

Mumbo Jumbo
Explorer Mungo Park reports the honour given by natives of Senegal/Nigeria to MUMBO- JUMBO, an idol to whom even the king must pay reverence, as shown here. Date: 18th century

Column Idol. ca. 5000 BC. Neolithic art. Sculpture on ivory. SPAIN. Madrid. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: SPAIN. EXTREMADURA

Daniel in the Furnace
Daniel, along with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, is cast into a fiery furnace for refusing to worship the idol ordered by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. They survive

The Blue Moon by Harold Ellis; music Howard Talbot -Touring to Londesborough Theatre, Scarborough, 27th august 1906 - Robert Courtneidges production - Flier in the shape of a Burmese idol (closed)

The Idol of Dagon - 1 Samuel 5. circa 1690

The Idol of Bel - Daniel 14. circa 1690

The Israelites during Moses absence adoring the idol of Go
Old Testament. The Israelites during Moses absence adoring the idol of Golden calf. Miniature of Saint Louis. 13th century

An idol from the Congo with nails and knives driven into it
An idol from the Congo with knives and nails driven in to it

Greece. Cycladic civilization. 3rd millenium BC. Marble head from Amorgos. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Idol. Third millennium BC. Water marble. Turkey
Turkey. Bronze Age. Idol. Third millennium BC. Water marble. From Beycesultan, Kultepe, Anatolia. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Ankara

Jettebole Idols, Island of Aland. Finland
Jettebole Idols (Island of Aland). National Museum of Finland. Helsinki. Finland

Middle Ages. Latvia. Ancient beliefs. 12th-13th centuries. Images of trees (idols). Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Iberians. Idol. Bust in human form. From Guadix. Spain
Iberians. Idol. Bust in human form. From Guadix. Province of Granada. Episcopal Museum of Vic. Catalonia. Spain

Idol of Chillaron. Bronze Age 1, III-II millennium BC. Archa
Idol of Chillaron. Quartzite. Their faces are etched schematic anthropomorphic representations on one side, the female and male on the other, related to fertility cults and rituals

Cycladic civilization. Early Bronze Age. 3300-2000 BC. Naked, female figurines of marble, idols. From de Cycladic island of Amorgos, 2700-2300 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Conquest of Mexico (1519). attempt to pull down the cross fa
Conquest of Mexico (1519). Detail of the attempt to pull down the cross facing the idols and stone throwing and arrow shots against Montezuma (1466-1520). Conching by Miguel Gonza?lez (1698). Detail

Marble female figure. Neolithic. V millennium B. C. Greece
Prehistory. Neolithic. Marble female figure dated to the end of five millennium BC. Found in Aegina. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Cartoon, statue of Charles Warner, actor
Caricature of a frowning man, possibly a theatre manager, with a statue of Charles Lickfold Warner (1846-1909), actor -- When you set up an idol, you should provide against its running away. 1880

Carmelita Diaz
CARMELITA ROMERO RUBIO DE DIAZ second wife of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, much loved and respected by the people - she was known as the idol of Mexico. Date: 1864? - ?

Rudolph Valentino / Idol
RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol who died at a tragically young age Date: 1895 - 1926

Reagan / Ronald / Act Photo
RONALD REAGAN 40th American President (1981-89), photographed here during his time as a Hollywood actor Date: 1911 - 2004

Edward Viii / Choc Box 30
EDWARD VIII as Prince of Wales as a chocolate box idol Date: 1894 - 1972

The Happy Island by James Bernard Fagan
Promotional postcard of The Happy Island by James Bernard Fagan adapted from the Hungarian of M. Lengyel. First produced His Majestys Theatre, 24th March 1913

Idols representations of ancestors. They proceed from the necropolis of Los Churuletes. Eneolithic. Sculpture on rock. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Museum of Archaeology

The Idolaters by MacKenzie
A group of five women kneel in admiration before a dashing British officer standing on a plinth. He raises his monocle to inspect them. Date: 1917

Sketches in Burmah - Idols on the Irrawaddy
Imposing statues of idols on the banks of the Irrawaddy River in Burma (Myanmar). Date: 1876

Underground home - Kamchatka - Far Eastern Russia - used in the harsh winter. Date: circa 1800

Comic Postcard - Housewives Choice! A queue of young ladies excitedly wait their turn to meet their new pop music idol at the stage door. Date: circa 1950s

Scruffy Street Tough advertising The Ladies Idol
Humorous ironic cartoon by Phil May, depicting a scruffy, unattractive street tough advertising The Ladies Idol at The Vaudeville Theatre. Date: 1895

Zanclus cornutus, moorish idol
Ff. 29a Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Idol from the Marquesas Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

PERU. Lima. Larco Herrera Museum. Chimu wooden idol. Chimu art. Sculpture on wood

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