Legend Collection (page 5)

Warriors with spears on horseback from a vase
Depiction of ancient warriors with spears on horseback from a very ancient vase in the British Museum. Copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc

From a very ancient vase in the British Museum decorated with a man riding a two-horse chariot, another man with a spear. Copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases

Vase and lid in the possession of Dodwell Esq. of Rome. Vase decorated with wild animals including bulls, antelopes and cats; lid with griffins, hunters and script

Ancient vase in the possession of Mr. George Cooke. Vase in red clay with black design of men with quadriga four-horse chariot and deer

Ancient vase in the possession of J. P. Anderdon
Ancient vase in the possession of J.P. Anderdon. Vase in red clay with black design of man in lionskin (Hercules) fighting centaurs

Death of Roland at the battle of Roncevaux Pass, 778. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after Angelo Montielli from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Duel between Roland and the giant Ferracut
The combat between Roland and the giant Ferracut, from the legend of Charlemagne. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after P.L

Lohengrin and Elsa of Brabant, an old German legend

Siege of Calais by King Edward III, Hundred Years War
Scene towards the end of the Siege of Calais by King Edward III, with the six Burghers on the right, during the Hundred Years War

Hernes Oak, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire
Hernes Oak, in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, felled in 1796. Associated with the legend of Herne the Hunter, the tree features in Shakespeares comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Date: 1790

Faust in Five Minutes, by Henry Walker
Promotional music sheet for Faust in Five Minutes, a Musical Medley Historiette written by Henry Walker and sung by Howard Paul

Narcissus by Thomas Stothard. 1808

Dorothy Vernon eloping from Haddon Hall, Derbyshire (a popular legend which may not be true). Date: 16th century

Dick Whittington and his cat on a postcard. Date: 20th century

Christmas card, Robin Hood and Friar Tuck
Christmas card by Robert Dudley, A Blazing Yule for Robin Hood and Friar Tuck (a robin and Father Christmas with a turkey). (4 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

The Abbots Kitchen, beside the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, the first Christian Sanctuary in Britain. A woman plays with a cat on a lawn! Date: 1930s

A Knight of the Round Table, Giron le Courtois, travels accompanied by his two squires

Ivain of the White Hands, with Giron le Courtois, are warned of danger by two travellers

Dick Turpins birthplace, The Bluebell Inn, Hempstead, Essex
circa 1910s

Dick Turpins Ring (Cockpit), Hempstead, Essex
circa 1910s

FALL / K. C. SPANIEL / 1989
CHAMPION CURTANA LEGEND Date: 1989

ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR
Not an English myth at all but based on a Welsh story eagerly taken up by the Normans after the conquest as a means of culturally subjugating the English. Dont be fooled!

GUINEVERE IN CLOISTER
Queen Guinevere in the cloister at the end of her life

GUINEVERE ON THE TERRACE
Guinevere as a novice (nun) on the terrace

GENEVIEVE SAVED BY DEER
Genevieve de Brabant, heroine of a popular French legend, is saved by a deer when she is abandoned in the forest Date: 13th century

SMILING DAVID BRYANT
David Bryant, CBE, and bowls legend, clutches his bowls under his left arm and smiles. Date: 1960s

Remore of Lancelot
Arthurian Legend, the remore of Lancelot

Elaines Body - Court
Rowing the body of Elaine to Arthurs court

LANCELOT / GUINEVERE PART
Guinevere and Lancelot part

GUINEVERE / LANCELOT PART
Guinevere and Lancelot part

PHILEMON & BAUCIS PHILEMON & BAUCIS
Poor cottagers Philemon and Baucis (husband and wife) entertained the (disguised) travellers Mercury and Jupiter so well that their cottage was transformed into a palace. Date: circa 780 BC

ARTHURIAN MYTH / ARTHUR
Arthurs farewell to Guinevere

Lancelot Saves Arthur
Sir Lancelot prevents Sir Bors from slaying King Arthur

Galahad - Round Table
Sir Galahad is introduced to the Round Table

GERAINT & YNIOL / CASTLE GERAINT & YNIOL / CASTLE
Yniol shows Geraint his ruined castle

GERAINT CHARGES BANDITS
Geraint charges the bandits

ARTHUR / ELAINES LETTER
Arthur reads Elaines letter

LANCELOT LEAVES ELAINE
Lancelot parts from Elaine

ARTHURS BROTHERS BONES
He finds the skeletons of his brothers

EDYRN AT CAERLEON
Edyrn comes to Arthurs court at Caerleon-in-Usk

KNIGHT & SPRITES KNIGHT & SPRITES
One of the Knights of the Round Table sees fairies as he rides through the forest

KNIGHT & FAIRY CIRCLE KNIGHT & FAIRY CIRCLE
One of the Knights of the Round Table sees fairies dancing in a circle just above the surface of a lake

Filming the Holy Thorn at Kingsthorn, Herefordshire - and the buds which came into bloom around Midnight, Old Christmas Eve (January 5th)

Zmey Goynych (Slavic Three-headed dragon)
Reproduction of a painting by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin depicting the Zmey Goynych (Slavic three-headed dragon). The Russian version (pictured) has three heads, is green, walks on two back paws

Branwen, Daughter of Llyr, the subject of a legend from medieval Welsh literature, the Mabinogi. Branwen is married off to a cruel Irish king; she tames a starling

Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw
Androcles and the Lion, a play by George Bernard Shaw. For Wallacks Theatre, New York, January 1915. O P Heggie, shown here as Androcles, had played the part in London. Phil Dwyer played the lion

Argus - Falcon class 2-4-0 of the LSWR
Argus of the London & South Western Railway (LSWR) - a Standard Gauge 2-4-0 Locomotive (works number 21 - one of 17 built at the Nine Elms Works between 1863-67)

The Capitoline Wolf (Lupa Capitolina) suckling Romulus and R
The Capitoline Wolf (Lupa Capitolina). Bronze sculpture of a she-wolf showing Romulus and Remus as suckling infants. Inspired by the legend of the founding of Rome

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