Legend Collection (page 3)

King Alfred prior to burning the cakes
King Alfred in the Neatherd's cottage, prior to burning the cakes Date: 9th century

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Tradition is Glory'. Date: circa mid-1970s

Plane trees of Godfrey of Bouillon. Prairie of Buyukdere
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. 40 plane trees of Godfrey of Bouillon. Prairie of Buyukdere. According to tradition the field tent of Godfrey of Bouillon was installed next to the tree during the camping of

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - collection of publications
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - book collection including Titanic Voices, Beyond Reach, The Night Lives On, Raise the Titanic, and The Death and Life of a Legend. Date: 20th century

RMS Lusitania - musical score, plate and bowl
RMS Lusitania - musical score The Lusitania Waltz by Ezra Read, In Memoriam ceramic plate showing Lusitania with the words Torpedoed 7th May 1915, and a bowl depicting the Lusitania/Mauretania

40 plane trees of Godfrey of Bouillon. Prairie of Buyukdere
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. 40 plane trees of Godfrey of Bouillon. Prairie of Buyukdere. According to tradition the field tent of Godfrey of Bouillon was installed next to the tree during the camping of

Saint George. Russian School. 19th century. Tempera and gold on wood. Museum of Pilgrimage and Santiago. Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. Date: 2019

Battle of Clavijo, 1753-1762, by Andres Gines de Aguirre
Battle of Clavijo (844). According to tradition, the King of Asturias Ramiro I, with the help of the Apostle Santiago, who appeared to him riding a white horse

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Illustration to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow showing a man and woman in a strange clearing, surrounded by animated trees and a couple of goblins looking down on them. Date: circa 1929

Nibelungenlied. Kriemhild requiring the proof of the coffin
Nibelungenlied. Anonymous epic poem. 13th century. Scene depicting Kriemhild requiring the proof of the coffin. Engraving by A. Closs. Germania, 1882. Colored

Pergamon Altar. Telephos Frieze. Detail
Pergamon Altar. 164-156 BC. Telephos Frieze. Detail. Battle by the river Kaikos. Two Scythian warriors, sons of river-god Istros, fall in battle. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

A scene in a church, with the priests dead and the poor-box robbed, during the Spanish Civil War. On the wall, a hammer and sickle motif and the legend Viva Russia has been painted

According to legend, it was taken to the King of Poland, who wished to keep it. It was also shown to a group of Catholic bishops, Date: 16th century

HASTINGS TRICK
The cunning Norsemen use all kind of subterfuges in their invasion of France : their leader Hastings feigns death to gain entry into a besieged city. (Doubtless a legend !) Date: circa 880

Le Morte D'Arthur
A scene from Le Morte D'Arthur, possibly either Igraine (Arthur's mother) or Merlin's mother who both died in childbirth Date: 1498

MARC BOLAN'S FUNERAL
A floral wreath in the form of a white swan in memory of Glam Rock legend Marc Bolan at his funeral in Golders Green, London. (One of T-Rex's hits was Ride a White Swan'). Date: September 1977

The legend of Edward the Confessor's ring, the stone of which is in the state crown

Guinevere Dead
Sir Lancelot with Guinevere's body at Almesbury

Sir Lamorack is Slain
Sir Lamorak de Galis is attacked by Sir Gawaine & his kin Sir Agravaine, Sir Gaheris & Sir Mordred. Lamorak, being a mighty knight, fights for 3 hours before he is slain

Lancelot and Tarquin
Sir Lancelot challenges Sir Tarquin (Tarquine) who has imprisoned 64 of King Arthur's knights. Sir Tarquin is slain

Lancelot Driven Mad
Lancelot is driven mad by Guinevere's anger (the result of an enchantment to make her believe that he was a traitor) & lives in a wild wood surviving on fruit

Lady Lyonesse and Dwarf
The Lady Lyonesse questions Sir Beaumains's dwarf & finds out that the knight is the son of a king & that his true identity is Sir Gareth of Orkney

Elaine Dies Love Myth England Arthurian Legend
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DEATH OF LANCELOT
Sir Lancelot, an old man in a monk's habit, dies of a broken heart on King Arthur's tomb

CORONATION LEGEND
The Legend of the Coronation Stone. Jacob sleeping on the Stone at Bethel. Edward I dedicating the Stone to the Confessor. The wanderings of the Stone. A Westminster scholar's freak in 1801

Merlin takes the child Arthur into his keeping Date: 1893 - 1894

ELAINE OF ASTOLAT
Elaine comes to the little hermitage where Lancelot lies sick, where she will tend him, fall in love with him, and ultimately die for love of him

ARTHUR VERSUS MORDRED
He slays his nephew Mordred, who is trying to seize the throne (and Guinevere), at the battle of Camlann ; but unfortunately Mordred also slays him

ELAINE & SHIELD/LEGEND
Elaine, the lily-maid of Astolat, otherwise known as The Lady of Shalott, with the shield of Lancelot, for whom she dies of love

Elaine Corpse Legend Myth England Arthurian Lily
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ELAINE & LANCELOT LEGEND
Elaine, the lily-maid of Astolat, otherwise known as The Lady of Shalott, declares her love to Lancelot, for whom she dies of love

ARTHURIAN/ELAINE
Elaine, the lily-maid of Astolat, otherwise known as The Lady of Shalott, working on her embroidery and thinking of Lancelot for whom she dies of love

PASSING OF ARTHUR
THE PASSING OF ARTHUR - his body is carried away on a mysterious boat

Excalibur Acquired
Arthur, accompanied by Merlin, acquires the magic sword Excalibur, and its even more magic scabbard, from the Lady of the Lake

Tarpeia crushed to death by the Sabines
The legendary Tarpeia, having offered to betray Rome to the Sabines in return for gold, is crushed to death by their shields and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock. Date: 747 BC

Myth France Mythology Mythical French Sea Rocks
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The Battle of Ancrum Moor, near Jedburgh, Scotland, 27 February 1545, during the War of the Rough Wooing, part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars

Maud Milton as The Spirit of the Lake in King Arthur Date: 1890s

Two portraits of Anna Pavlova, 1920s Date: 1928

Anna Pavlova in Christmas with Alexandre Volinine (third from the left) date uncertain Date: 1930

A photograph of Anna Held aged 15 with her mother (top right) and a later photograph (bottom left) Date: 1929

Two poses of Anna Held taken in Paris before she came to America in 1898 - she had cultivated a naughty French stage persona Date: 1929

Art Deco drawing by John Vassos called Orpheus and Eurydice, 1930 Date: 1930

Advert for The Book of Anna Pavlova, 1930 Date: 1930

A theatre company is disbanded after a charge of blasphemy. Actors, actresses and stage painters react in shock to the news. A tragic story at Avignon

A bailiff of Wolfenschiessen, Switzerland, on horseback, caressing the cheek of a woman, 1800s. Wolfenschiefs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Love and Death. Date: c.1920

Out upon the wharfs they came. Illustration by Florence Harrison from Tennysons poem, The Lady of Shallott. Date: c.1920

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