Lent Collection

Olney Pancake Race
SHROVE TUESDAY The starter line for the Olney pancake race which has been held in the village for over 500 years. Any Olney woman over 18 can compete

Banquet Hall of King Sahla Sellasie, Ethiopia
After Lent the King provided an open table to every free man in a banquet that lasted a week. Watercolour, 1842. Johann Martin Bernatz. 1842

The Strife of Lent with Shrovetide, c. 1550, by Pieter Bruegh
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569). Flemish painter. The Strife of Lent with Shrovetide, c.1550. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Pancake Race / Olney
SHROVE TUESDAY The starter line for the Olney pancake race, 1951, which has been held in the village for over 500 years. Any Olney woman over 18 can compete. Date: 1951

Julia Pastrana from Mexico, hairy woman
Julia Pastrana, from Mexico, a hairy woman who married a showman, Theodor Lent, but died in childbirth at Moscow (the child also died)

Cartoon, Lent - A Recantation, Gladstone
Political cartoon, Lent - A Recantation, Consistent Inconsistency, William Ewart Gladstone standing on a barrel Date: 1891

Speaking To A Crowd
This sketch shows a man speaking to a crowd of people of various descriptions, asking to be lent a note of 100 Francs. Date: circa 1901

Cambridge university rowers
Cambridge undergraduate university rowers competing at the Lent Races. A large crowd can be seen. Date: 1925

Mrs. Macquarie
Portrait from a miniature which now belongs in the Hobart Museum. The subject lady is Elizabeth Macquarie, second wife of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales between 1810 and 1821

Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Bt
An Oil painting of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, a British politician and writer of works including Statistical Account of Scotland of which there are a vast 21 volumes

Wild daffodil or Lent lily, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Narcissus pseudo-narcissus, Narcisse des pres. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard

Months of the year. February
Carnival, a festive season occuring just before Lent, usually during February. Artist: Rie Cramer Date: circa 1926

Quaremeprenant : (Lent faster), with enlarged ears, holding a thorny branch. Date: First published: 1532-64

Lenten season in Paris: The Fish-market 1875
Lent has not yet prescribed effect upon the dietary arrangements of many families. This circumstance which of course tells rather against the butcher and in favour of the fishmonger. Date: 1875

Hot Cross Bun
HOT CROSS BUN and Easter Egg

PISAN, H鬩odore Joseph (1822-1890);Dore, Paul
" PISAN, H鬩 odore Joseph (1822-1890); Dore, Paul Gustave (1832-1883). Il se promenait d un pas lent et mesur鮠 1875-1876

The Smallpox Hulks, Atlas and Endymion, at Deptford Cree
Engraving of the two old hulks, Atlas and Endymion, at Deptford Creek, London, from The Illustrated London News, 23rd July 1881

Cambridge Boat Club crew and spectators on the River Cam near Ditton Corner, for the traditional Lent or May Bumps races. Date: circa 1900

Stained glass
A church stained-glass window depicting the reappearance of eggs that the faithful have been abstaining from for the duration of Lent. Date: c1500

Building in Brook Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, with a helpful offer: Money Lent On Everything. Date: 1969

Interior of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy. A Lenten sermon is being preached beneath the great curtain suspended above the pulpit during the season of Lent. Date: 1905

Noblewoman of Venice wearing a black dress and carrying a fan of feathers, 16th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of

WWI hand-crafted and embossed triptych
First World War hand-crafted and embossed triptych. The three panels are as follows. Left screen - BY THE MYSTERY OF THY HOLY INCARNATION

Carillon - North East Coast Exhibition - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Carillon (lent by Wellington, New Zealand) - North East Coast Exhibition - Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Date: 1929

The passing of Lent. Illustration shows a scene outside a church with an old woman labeled Democratic Party standing between William Jennings Bryan as a friar labeled 16 to 1 and Arthur P

Sangers Circus USA stall, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Scene at Sangers Circus during its visit to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, showing a USA-themed stall in a field

An apron from garden Cornflowers
A young girl is lent a petal from a Cornflower to make an apron for her

Frame work of the viaduct
Frame work of Coopers Bridge, near Greenwich. The designers, Mr Grissell and Mr Petolent lent inspiration from similar American structures

Polo match by electric light
A polo match played by electric light at the Ranelagh Club. The game did not begin until ten o clock in the evening. The ILN writes that, .the light, when thrown upon the players

Ash Wednesday Custom
On ASH WEDNESDAY, the first day of Lent, Catholics go to church to be marked on the forehead with a cross in ash, as a sign of penitence

Selling Hot Cross Buns
An old woman comes to the front door on Good Friday, selling HOT CROSS BUNS to the children of the house and a maidservant

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