Kneeling Collection (page 14)

Dunderpate and Susan at the milestone, after their coach ride. Dunderpate puts his shoes back on, and Susan holds the silver crown given to them by the squire. Date: 1938

Armenian Bathhouse - Sulphur Baths. The attendant is wearing a camel hair mitten, which is using to rub the bather all over which cleanses and exfoliates! Date: circa 1910s

Mexico - Lady making tortillas. She is rolling out the dough on a stone (with a rolling pin), shaping the tortillas and cooking them on a hot stove, with a elaborate stone chimney. Date: circa 1905

Fashionably Devout
Fashionably devout : the sun shines on two kneeling women inside a church. Date: 1930s

Boys in training, physical drill, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training, doing physical drill in a field before breakfast at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship

Crossword Craze - Distracted housemaid
The Crossword Craze What Lizzie was late with the lunch! A housemaid gets totally distracted trying to finish her crossword and completely forgets to do her cleaning or prepare the midday meal

Dunderpate and Susan on dedication page
Dunderpate and Susan on the dedication page -- To our friend Nina Beck. Date: 1938

French couple seduction sequence
A French couple in a seduction sequence. He kneels at her feet, in a begging posture, while she stands with her back to him, reading his call-up papers. (2 of 4) Date: early 20th century

Italian Patriotic Card - Do your Duty, do your best! - extolling the national virtue of contributing to a bank savings scheme to aid the underwriting of the Italian war effort. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Geisha girl preparing daikon
Japan - Geisha girl preparing (cutting) daikon (white radish), possibly for takuan or bettarazuke dishes. Date: circa 1910s

Prayers inside Aya Sofya, Istanbul
Prayers inside the Aya Sofya Mosque, Istanbul - nowadays this incredible building is no longer a Christian Church (original usage) or a Mosque (later usage), but houses a museum. Date: circa 1905

Ripley Weeping Cross
The very rare medieval Weeping Cross in the churchyard at Ripley, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. The four pair of niches round the base are for kneeling penitents! Date: 1950s

Drinking from a Stream

Two ladies in outfits by Bernard. On the left, a dress in white crepe de chine with a frill at the hem. On the right, a three-piece outfit in pale pink crepe with red and silver geometrical designs

Italian Sharpshooter - World War One era
Italian propaganda postacrd depicting a poised Sharpshooter - World War One era. The caption translates as: For King and Fatherland: this is the ideal of the Sharpshooters Date: circa 1916s

Tell them once more the tale of Bethlehem, the kneeling shepherds and the Babe Divine. From a poem by Charles Kingsley. 20th century

Waist Exercises 1940S
A young woman kneels down and swings her arms in the air, rotating her body to the left and then to the right. The aim of the exercise is a flat waist. Date: 1940s

Louis Founds the Order
Louis XIV founds the military order of St. Louis. Date: circa 1700

Burgundian Costume 1450
As la duchesse de Bourgogne kneels in prayer, her rosary round her wrist, her page holds up her gown and a lady of her court clutches her own dress Date: circa 1450

Charles Escapes Scotland
The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart escapes by boat from Scotland. Date: 1746

King & Officers C14Th
A King (in white) with officers of his court Date: 14 Century

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Toady
Toady (The Right Hon. Lickfoot Snayle MP) Kneeling on the ground and casting the shadow of a toad. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled

David Wright woman in red underwear
Elegant woman with brown hair, wearing skimpy red underwear, and holding a red and black striped evening dress in front of her

The marriage of Emperor Napoleon III
Emperor Napoleon III (1808-1873) neels with Empress Eugenie(1826-1920) for a blessing during their marriage ceremony in Paris

The Royal Visit to Jamaica
The Queen holds her first investiture outside Britain: the Chief Justice of Jamaica, Sir Kenneth O Connor, Kneeling to receive the accolade on 27th November 1953

Boy kneeling in front of a religious statue
A boy kneeling in front of a religious statue of a woman (perhaps a saint) praying. He is holding his hands together in imitation of the statue

Woman washing a sheet in a river in Portugal
Woman washing a sheet at the side of a river in Portugal. She is kneeling on a specially designed wooden platform, which stops her getting too wet

Two girls fishing in a stream. They are looking at what they have caught in a milk bottle

Young child on an exotic rug, Middle East
A young child kneeling on an exotic rug, somewhere in the Middle East

Glamour girl on a beach in Cornwall
A glamour girl in a bikini poses for her photo on a beach in Cornwall

Sarajevo - Three Young Turks praying

Statue of soldier, Lenin Monument, Sevastopol, Ukraine
Statue of a soldier on the Lenin Monument in Sevastopol, Ukraine

Siblings playing with toys near the fire
A sister and brother playing with their playing with their toys in front of the fire. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Brother and sister facing each otherm, kneeling on cushions. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Pastel studies of a boy and a girl
A young girl kneeling on a cushion, holding out her hand and a young boy tucked up under his sheets in bed. Pastel drawings by Raymond Sheppard

An Algerian Man prays alongside his camel
An Algerian man kneels alongside his camel and undertakes his midday prayers in the direction of Mecca

Lourdes - Recitation of the rosary at the Grotto

Praying at the Mosque, Constantinople
Overflow of the Friday Prayers at a Mosque in Constantinople, Turkey

Balkans - Mostar - Turkish man at ritual prayer

Temple building in Kashgar, western China
A large temple building in Kashgar, western China, with people standing and kneeling in front. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Roadside shrine, Madhya Pradesh, Central India
A roadside shrine in Madhya Pradesh Province, Central India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

A British infantryman kneeling behind cover
A British infantryman of the South Staffordshire regiment kneeling behind cover. The colour photograph was published by the Illustrated London News to show their readers how the British khaki

News of Defeat at Court
Sir James de Hely presenting news of the defeat of the Turkish expedition to the King and the French court

Wales / Arthur / Shaw
Arthur, Prince of Wales Son of Henry VII

Four bearers and patient (5 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (5 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (3 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (3 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (4 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (4 of 6)

St Francis Assisi Vision
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI St Francis sees a vision

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