Imaginary Collection (page 2)

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

A Jazz Dream - dancing couple, 1919
A couple dance closely together to jazz music, while an imaginary cavalcade of pans, satyrs and cherubs provide the musical backdrop. Date: 1919

Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, WW1
Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, on display in a zoo, an imaginary scene looking forward to 1956. Date: 1915

Once Upon a Time - a sketch by Claude Shepperson
Two nymphs sit and watch a group of fauns and magical creatures happily play. Date: 1918

Flights into the Future - the first men on the moon
Astronauts land on the moon for the first time and set about exploring and taking samples from the lunar landscape. A imaginary

Patriotic British postcard, bayonet practice, WW1
First World War patriotic postcard, showing an imaginary German soldier standing behind the dummy used for bayonet practice

Seance of the Philip group, Toronto, Canada. This science-based group invented an imaginary spirit, Philip, who seemed to communicate as effectively as any real spirit from the other world

Cartoon, The Motor Dreadbike, WW1
Cartoon, The Motor Dreadbike, authorised and approved by the Army Council. An imaginary armoured motorcycle for use during the First World War. Date: September 1914

Cartoon, Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer, WW1
Cartoon, Surprises in Store for England, 1. Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer. An imaginary scene showing German soldiers standing inside shell casings, ready to be fired at the enemy

Death of Pope Pius X
The death of Pope Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, 1835-1914, served 1903-1914 as the 257th pope of the Catholic Church)

Imaginary view of a flying machine
Imaginary front view of a Vaisseau Volant (flying machine), looking like a Faberge egg with green wings. Date: 1780s

Greek Harbour
A Greek warship returns to its home port. Date: BCE

Oil on board by Cyrus Cuneo of an imaginary flying boat belived to have been once owned by Claude Grahame-White

1849 boy-carrier showing the dihedral
(a) Rear view of the 1849 boy-carrier, showing the dihedral angle of the triplane wings, and imaginary flappers of bird-wing form; (b) the favoured form of propulsive flappers in 1853

Charles Green in the Coronation Balloon
An imaginary depiction of Charles Green on a horse, riding in the Coronation Balloon, in which he ascended from White Conduit Gardens, London. 13 August 1828

Flying Globe

Balloon over Calais
Imaginary scene showing a balloon over Calais, built by M Romain and piloted by M Pilatre de Rozier, intended for a flight from France to England. late 18th century

Flying Globe and Air Balloon
Two fanciful technical drawings. Above is a Globe Volant (Flying Globe) in which Giroud de Villette and M Rozier passed over Paris on 19 October 1783

Satirical cartoon, A Rising Statesman
Satirical political cartoon, A Rising Statesman. Showing a young politician with an older man in a balloon gondola, waving his hat to an imaginary crowd below

People and animals with a balloon
Fanciful design showing crowds of people and animals watching the ascent of an idealised balloon (complete with what appears to be a key to wind it up)

Excursion to the moon
Fanciful depiction of Chevalier Humguffier (or Humgussier) and the Marquis de Gull making an excursion to the moon in their new aerial vehicle. 1784

Fanciful ballooning scene

The aquarium

Title page and frontispiece, Travels through Africa

A man and woman of Bahaharana, Africa
Plate entitled A man and woman of Bahaharana in the dress of the country. He carries a large club and she carries a bucket

A Moor in the desart of Sahara, Africa
Plate entitled A Moor in the desart of Sahara, depicting a man on a horse riding across the desert. The book (one of three), entitled Travels through the Interior of Africa

After the day : Suggestions for the re-building of London
If we lost the First World War: Maybe Londons famous buildings and monuments that we know of today would be completely different, German style with the Kaiser and eagles appearing on many of them

View of Rome
An imaginary view of Rome in a marginal drawing. In front of the city stand two men, one of whom is wearing armour. There are birds flying over their heads

Garden scene with abstract elements, and an archway leading to a distant hill

Abstract design with bird shapes
An abstract design with two bird shapes. An archway in the background leads to a wood

Rev. William Booth addressing a multi-national audience, 190
Illustration showing the Reverend William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, pictured at an imaginary gathering of a huge multi-national crowd

Cutting a channel through the ice, Arctic, c. 1849
Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows a group of men cutting a channel through the ice so that their ship

Breaking up of the ice, Arctic, c. 1849
Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows a group of men standing on the rapidly breaking up ice pack

Icebergs and the Aurora Borealis, Arctic, c. 1849
Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows two ships in the background, with icebergs, walruses

Winter Quarters, Arctic Explorers, c. 1849
Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows a group of men building an ice house in the foreground

Imaginary Ufo (Buhler)
This painting captures the mysteriously ambiguous quality of the UFOs - part nuts-and- bolts spacecraft, part dreamlike shapes which echo subconscious archetypes

Imaginary Abduction
At the close of the 20th century, many thousands claim to be taken aboard alien spacecraft : this is a typical scene as they describe their experience

Philip Group
THE PHILIP GROUP A Toronto-based group create an imaginary sitter, Philip, who seems to communicate as effectively as any real spirit from the other world

Mores Utopia
The imaginary island of UTOPIA, as described by Sir Thomas More

Titus Oates
TITUS OATES anabaptist turned conformist turned papist turned conformist again, odious fomentor of imaginary Popish plot : with his autograph

Marriott Project 1869
Marriotts aerial steam carriage, Avitor, was successfully tested in model form, but alas, no full-size version was constructed, this is an imaginary scene

ANCIENT DORSETSHIRE
Imaginary landscape of south- west England in prehistoric times, showing quite a diversity of creatures

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