Love Gallery

Swan Lake ballet, Siegfried and Odette fall in love

Siegfried and Odette fall in love while the little swans dance. Because of an evil spell, they are swans by day, and only resume human shape at midnight. A scene from Act II of Tchaikovsky's ballet, Swan Lake, first performed in 1877, based on Russian and German folk tales

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Emma de Burgh, tattooed lady, 1897

Emma de Burgh, tattooed lady. The work on her back depicts the Last Supper, by Da Vinci, and was regarded at the time to be one of the finest piece of tattooing produced in America. Above the Last Supper is the Golden Rule, written in a scroll, and on the table cloth are the words Love one another'. Her husband's tattoos can be viewed in picture 10583082 and 10583083. Date: 1897

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Cut and he will not come again by Reginald Higgins

An illustration showing a mermaid with the shorn, shingled Eton crop hairstyle of the 1920s, looking rather forlorn as she waits for her lover to return. Unfortunately, because she has cut off all her beautiful locks in a fit of hysterical feminism, he's not interested any more! A rather chauvinistic illustration commenting on the trend for short and bobbed hair during the mid-20s

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