Lover Collection

Tango. Watercolor by Marcel Vertes (1895-1961) published in l Illustration on November 26, 1925. Watercolour

Tango, 1912. Dance originating in Argentina that was introduced in Europe after World War I

Star and Stargazer 1926
THE STAR AND THE STAR-GAZER An actress in her dressing room receives a friendly visit from a lover of the theatre

Tarot Card 6 - L'Amoureux (The Lover or Lovers). Date: 20th century

Medea and the Fleece
Medea, daughter of Aeetes king of Colchis who possesses the Golden Fleece, uses magic to send the guardian dragons to sleep, enabling her lover Jason to steal the Fleece

Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1889-1956), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, born Dorothy Violet Ashton, socialite, author, poet and literary editor

Robert Burns and Highland Mary
Robert Burns - Scottish poet (1759-1796) and Highland Mary (Mary Campbell) (17631786) - with whom he shared a passionate love affair and to whom he deidcated a number of poems and songs

Offenbach Hoffmann
(The Tales of Hoffmann) The closing scene of the Venetian episode : Hoffmann watches as Guilietta goes off with another lover

Violet Keppel Trefusis
VIOLET TREFUSIS Writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West

Tearful paper moon sees lover fall from sky
A tearful paper moon sees a womans lover fall from sky as the end of his crescent form breaks off

Portrait of Ethel Le Neve
Ethel Le Neve, Dr Crippens mistress. Dr Crippen, an American citizen, lived at 39 Hilldrop Cresent, Camden, London. He was accused of murdering his wife when she disappeared under suspicious

The Forest Lovers / Hewlet
A medieval Knight, with his young lover, gets down on one knee

The loved one far away
Dutch girl sitting on the end of a jetty thinking of her lover. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1915

Lady Blessingtons Tomb
The pyramid-shaped tomb of Marguerite, countess of Blessington, Irish writer, photographed by her lover, the count d Orsay. Date: 1849

I could do with a new photograph of you girlie
Bonzo outside his tent with a photograph of his girl covered in kisses. Date: circa 1940

Queen of the Gipsies
Margaret Finch, Queen of the Gipsies at Norwood, in south London with two pet dogs - one is smaller than a tankard!!

Beauty / Beast (Boyle 2)
Beauty discovers that love is the magic that makes all things fair - her love transforms the Beast into a handsome lover

Whittington (Benoist)
SIR RICHARD (DICK) WHITTINGTON Merchant, Lord Mayor of London and cat-lover

Alice de Janze in court after shooting Raymond de Trafford
Alice de Janze, Comtesse de Janze and later, Alice de Trafford (1899-1941) pictured in court in Paris where she stood trial for shooting her lover Raymond de Trafford in the Gare du Nord

John Gilbert - American actor, screenwriter and director
John Gilbert (1897-1936) - American actor, screenwriter and director. Gilbert ose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as The Great Lover. Date: circa 1920s

Comic postcard, couple viewed through a keyhole Date: 20th century

Una, Lady Troubridge
Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (born Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor, 1887 1963), British sculptor and translator. She is best known as the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall

A couple standing together - reverse silhouette
Interesting reverse silhouette card from The Netherlands - this card set within an oval - shows a couple standing together - clearly much in love. Date: circa 1910s

Baillie Scott, A House For An Art Lover, Hall
An architectural interior illustration of an Arts and Crafts hall to a house designed for an art lover, by M. H. Baillie Scott. Date: early 1900s

Baillie Scott, A House For An Art Lover
A pair of architectural drawings showing the north and south elevations of a house for an art lover, designed by M. H. Baillie Scott, in Arts and Crafts style. Date: early 1900s

Woodpecker Tapestry
A tapestry designed by William Morris, inspired by a story from Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which a sorceress transforms King Picus into a woodpecker, having refused to become here lover

L'amant d'Une Autre
This illustration, titled Another's Lover, shows a large gentleman gracefully blowing a tendril of smoke, which trails up into the air space between himself and a finely dressed young woman

The Conquest of Mexico (1519-21)
The Conquest of Mexico (1519-1521). D- Hernan Cortes appoints ordinary mayors of the town, E- La Malinche makes the Totonac understand who Cortes is. Detail

Smart Gent sits beneath a tree and thinks of his love
Smart Gent sits beneath a tree with his lute, dreaming of his sweetheart and composing some lines of romantic poetry and song

Illustration, Song of the Girondins
Illustration, Chant des Girondins (Song of the Girondins), a patriotic song from the time of the French Revolution, calling on young men to die for their country

2nd Century BC Acropolis Altar Ancient Age Antiquity
2nd, century, BC, Acropolis, altar, ancient, age, antiquity, Aphrodite, Architecture, Art, Asia, Minor, battle, Berlin, death, Detail, Dione, Eros, Eumenes, II, Soter, fate, fight, fighter, Frieze

Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Eisenstein and others, Moscow
Group photo, from left to right: Boris Pasternak (Russian writer), Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russian writer and actor), Tomizi Tamiji Naito (Japanese writer), Arseny Voznesensky (Soviet diplomat)

Death extinguishes the candles on an altar of a Nun and her lover.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

BRUNNHILDE'S DEATHBED
The devouring flames curl round the body of Brunnhilde as she lies on her funeral pyre, driven to death by despair at the death of her lover, Siegfried

HYACINTH FATAL ACCIDENT
Hyacinth is playing a game with his lover Apollo, when Zephyr, jealous, directs Apollo's arrow at him : he dies, and from his blood springs a hyacinth flower

The ghost of a dead lover draws the bride away from her bridegroom - thou and I together, In the outcast weather Toss and howl and spin

Peer Gynt encounters the TROLL-WITCH who accuses him of being her former lover and the father of her troll-child

Apparitions: angels & the ghost of a lover comforts woman
The spirit of a dead man, accompanied by two angels, returns to Earth to comfort his surviving lover. Date: circa 1810

Comic postcard, offer from a photographer Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, woman on mans lap Date: 20th century

A young couple share a tender embrace
circa 1910s

Burghley House, seat of Henry Cecil, Marquis of Exeter
Burghley House, Cambridgeshire, seat of Henry Cecil, Marquis of Exeter. South front of the Elizabethan house with the lake landscaped by Capability Brown

Fashionable woman in drape skirt, era of Marie Antoinette
Fashionable woman in pouf hairstyle, drape skirt over petticoat, era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Constance seduces the gentleman Camillus
Woman removing a young mans breeches. Constance seduces the gentleman Camillus. The amorous courtesan. La courtisane amoureuse

I claim my perjured lover, Nanki Poo - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

Statue of the Bithynian Greek youth Antinous, lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Giacomo Bossi from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabilis Il Museo

The punishment for adultery in Guinea (Slave Coast). A man is roasted alive in front of his lover, who is tied in a pit and scalded with boiling water

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour 1721-1764
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour, Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XIV, 1721-1764. Handcoloured lithograph after an original portrait in Versailles from Le Bibliophile

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