Imaginary Collection

Capriccio Landscape, by Jean Victor Bertin (1767-1842). Date: circa 1810

Fairyland Fancies -- a little girl gazes into the fire, seeing imaginary figures of fairies, witches and goblins. late 19th century

Telephone / Bell & Gray
An imaginary conversation between Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, using their own telephone devices

Moliere / Malade Imagin
LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE The imaginary invalid, his doctors and his maidservant

Henson's Aerial Steam Carriage over the Orient, imaginary representation Date: 1843

Never, Never Land
An imaginary landscape painting of a never-never land, illustrious trees artistically frame a picturesque view of an ocean, overlooked by a decorative garden wall

VISION OF DEATH
A sick man sees the figure of Death standing behind his doctor : a few days later he dies, a victim of his imaginary terrors Date: circa 1890

Bifrost or The Rainbow Bridge leading to the Afterlife
Bifrost - a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (the world) and Asgard (the realm of the gods) in Norse mythology. 1916

Comic postcard, Drunken Stone Age man with prehistoric animals Date: 20th century

When Pamela Dreamed About a Tea Party by Higgins
When Pamela Dreamed About a Tea Party and Who Came To It! by Reginald Higgins. Quite an assortment of guests for Pamelas imaginary tea party - Lord Nelson, Charlie Chaplin, Malcolm Campbell

Imaginary raft, Napoleonic invasion of England
Imaginary raft for a Napoleonic invasion of England which never happened. Date: circa 1804

Sparacte bec-de-fer, imaginary bird, Sparactes superbus. Copied from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d Afrique

Trying out wooden velocipedes in Paris, France
Trying out wooden velocipedes in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France, after a lithograph of the time. Date: 1818

Imaginary aquatic velocipede for use by duck hunters 1823
Imaginary aquatic tripod velocipede for use by duck hunters, after an English engraving of 1823. Date: 1823

The Meta Sudans in Rome as a war memorial
The Meta Sudans in Rome as a War Memorial (an imaginary depiction in watercolour), by Charles Cundall. early 1920s

If London were Venice, Piccadilly Circus. A view of London if its streets were canals, with bridges and gondolas. Date: circa 1900s

Map of the Americas1633 Date: 1633

MORES UTOPIA
The imaginary island of UTOPIA, as described by Sir Thomas More Date: 1518

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars. Martians enjoy less gravity, but must withstand a thinner atmosphere with extreme temperatures. Civilisation could be highly developed. Date: 1939

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Pluto. In perpetual twilight, and fiercely cold compared to Earth, fur-covered bats would be the best equipped life form, dwelling underground. Date: 1940

Imaginary life forms on the planet Jupiter -- living with gravity more than twice that of Earth, with atmospheric conditions to match, imposes severe restrictions on them. Date: 1940

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Mercury must withstand colossal heat, and for this reason are likely to exist in the form of insects. Date: 1939

The Aerial Steam Carriage, or Ariel. An artists imaginary representation of a propeller-driven flying machine with wings. By Permission of the Patentees, this Engraving of The First Carriage

Crimean War, Sergeant Davies defending the colours
Crimean War -- Sergeant Davies (Poolfield Davis) of the Grenadier Guards defending the colours against Russian infantry at the Battle of Inkerman in 1854

Tapestry of the Astrolabes. 15th century. Flemish tapestry depicting, on the left, God the Creator. In the center, the Vault of Heaven like an astrolabe with Pole Star

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn. The unstable surface would be impracticable except for light, insect-like life forms who would have to breathe a gaseous atmosphere. Date: 1939

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune
The imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune have to put up with an unstable surface which is largely liquid, a dense atmosphere, very high gravity, and chemical storms. Date: 1940

Two rival designs for the Map of Europe, WW1
Two rival designs for the Map of Europe at the start of the First World War. Above: a new map as probably already designed by the Hohenzollern map specialist in Berlin

Alvin Lawson speaks about imaginary abductees and the birth-trauma hypothesis at the Salzburg Colloquium, 1982 Date: 1982

Cartoon, John Lawrence Toole as Hamlet
Cartoon of John Lawrence Toole (1830-1906), English comic actor, theatre manager and producer. Seen here in an imaginary performance of Hamlet

Scene from Molieres play, Le Malade Imaginaire, first performed in 1673. 17th century

Emperor Maximillian I in Durers studio
Emperor Maximillian I (1459-1519) having his portrait painted in Albrecht Durers studio at Nuremberg. Jager painted this imaginary scene between 1882 and 1886. circa 1518

Earths Sphere according the author. Engraving in Poeticon Astronomicon, by Gaius Julius Hyginus (ca.64 BC-17 AD). Edited in Venice, 1485. Incunable

If London were like Venice - St. Pauls Cathedral
Spectacular scene of what St. Pauls Cathedral would look like if London were like Venice Date: 1899

If London were like Venice - St. Pancras Station
Spectacular scene of what St. Pancras Station would look like if London were like Venice. Date: 1899

If London were like Venice - Piccadilly Circus
Spectacular scene of what Piccadilly Circus would look like if London were like Venice. Date: 1899

Cartoon, Elephant and Dog, WW1
Cartoon, Elephant and Dog, helping with the war effort on the Western Front. Date: 1917

The Holy Kinship, c. 1495. Workshop of Geertgen tot Sint-Jan
Workshop of Geertgen tot Sint-Jans (c. 1455/65-1485/95). The Holy Kinship, c. 1495. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Cartoon, Gladstone kicking out Disraeli
Cartoon, How the New Year should have been kept at Westminster. Depicting the Liberal leader Gladstone kicking out the Tory leader Disraeli. 1880

SHOPPING PARTY GAME
Each girl represents an item of male apparel, eg. socks in an imaginary shop. The man, blindfolded, asks for socks and the socks girl kisses him and he guesses who she is! Date: 1930s

John Baron Belasyse
JOHN, BARON BELASYSE Prominent royalist, wrongly accused by Oates and others of being a party to the imaginary Popish Plot. Date: 1614 - 1689

View from Balloon 1790S
A View from a Balloon above the clouds, seen by Mr Baldwin Date: 1790s

Frenchwomen Voting
Women voting ? Helas, this is an imaginary scene showing how it WILL be WHEN Frenchwomen get the vote - ladies from all social spheres, maid and mistress alike, queueing Date: 1906

Martians watching scenes of life on Earth
A group of Martians watching scenes of life on Earth through special viewfinders. Date: 1906

Caricature of Winston Churchill and Francis Howard
Caricature entitled " Winston asking for trouble? A caricaturists dream" showing a would-be Grosvenor Gallery young man (Churchill)

Cartoon, The peace treaty, WW1
Cartoon, The peace treaty. An imaginary peace treaty with a sword sticking into a German eagle, and the signature of Rosalie (a nickname for the French bayonet) signed in the eagles blood below

Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st The Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) as an old man surveying the battlefield of Waterloo, 1840 (c)Oil on canvas, after Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)

Kaiser as a waiter: a WW1 peace conference imagined, 1915
Taking orders: a forecast of the peace conference. Kaiser Wilhelm II is re-imagined as a waiter, taking orders from George V, Theodore Roosevelt and other leaders. Date: 1915

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