Lover Collection (page 5)

Music cover, Hilda, a waltz by Dan Godfrey
Music cover for Hilda, a waltz by Dan Godfrey, dedicated to the Baroness Ferdinand de Rothschild. Showing a young woman sitting contemplating a miniature portrait of the man she loves

Nina Lassave, beloved and alleged accomplice of Guiseppe Fieschi, would-be assassin of King Louis Philippe of France. Date: 1835

Ballad / Mars Daughter
EARL MARs DAUGHTER She is carried off to her lover (who lives with her as a dove by day) by a a flight of swans (really her lovers brothers and their men). Date: traditional

Ballad / Hynd Horn
HYND HORN The kings daughter gives the beggar a drink, failing to recognise her erstwhile lover, Hynd Horn, but all will end well, I promise you. Date: traditional

Ballad / False Lover
THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK When John tells her he loves another, the fair maid goes after him and by the end hes as deep in love wi her as she was ower again. Date: traditional

British Ballad, Fair Helen of Kirconnell
FAIR HELEN (Helen of Kirconnell - Kirconnel - Kirkconnel) British ballad of Scottish origin telling the tragic tale of Helen Irving (Fair Helen of Kirkconnel) daughter of the Laird of Kirkconnel

British Ballad, Barthrams Dirge
BARTHRAMs DIRGE. British ballad by Robert Surtees (1779-1834) Telling the story of a womans mourning for her murdered lover

British Ballad, The Twa Corbies
THE TWA CORBIES (Two Ravens or Two Crows) being a derivative of The Three Ravens with a cynical twist. A brave knight lies dead while the two scavengers (ravens)

British Ballad, Katharine Janfarie
KATHARINE JANFARIE (Katharine Jaffray) British balad telling the tale of a woman, wooed by a man. He asks her family for leave but another man comes

British Ballad, Auld Robin Gray
AULD ROBIN GRAY British ballad of Scottish origin written by Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825) Old Robin Gray marries a young girl whose lover is thought to be dead

Love Locks on display in Odessa, Ukraine
A display of Love Locks on some railings in Odessa, Ukraine. Lovers attach padlocks to the railings, throw away the key, and believe that this will make their love last for ever

Come with me and be my Love
A Dutch boy, flowers in his hand, asks a girl to become his lover by the docks

Pelargonium Sir Thomas Hanbury of the Geraniaceae family, with bright orange-red flowers. It is named after the English cloth merchant

An altercation
A lady flings her arms around her lover, shielding him from the other gentleman who seems to be bringing unwelcome news. It seems that three definitely is a crowd

The Wales family in mourning
Alexandra, Princess of Wales with her four children, from left; Princess Maud, Alexandra, Princess Louise (standing), Prince George and Princess Victoria

Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
Engraved portrait of Samuel Lover (1797-1868), the Irish novelist, artist and musician, pictured c.1868

Apollo and the Sibyl
Apollo promises his lover Sibyl she may live as many years as she can hold grains of sand; she becomes very aged, no more than a voice - the oracular Sibyl of Cuma

Her Brave Dragoon
A young woman steps up onto a chair in her living room to kiss the portrait of her soldier lover hanging on the wall

Phil. Christ. Konigsmark
PHILIP CHRISTOPH KONIGSMARK Swedish soldier, lover of Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I, king of England

Lord Byron Scrap
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON English Romantic poet, as a Victorian scrap

Constitution
Hold ! I sign ! - Christina, regent for her daughter, queen Isabela, is persuaded to sign a constitution when soldiers threaten to shoot her lover Munos

Clytie a Sunflower
When the sea-nymph Clytie is deserted by her lover the sun- god Apollo, she is changed into a sunflower, her face turned towards him as he crosses the heavens daily

Green Morning Dress 1823
A lady holds a miniature of her lover. Her green dress has 2 rouleau round the hem and a white vandyked ruff. Her lace cap, adorned with flowers, ties with a pink ribbon

Wilde / Nightingale / Cupid
His lips are sweet as honey. - the Nightingales vision of the True Lover

Abelard / Heloise / Tomb
ABELARD AND HELOISE Monument to the unfortunate lovers in Pere La Chaise Cemetery, Paris Date: 1079-1142; 1101-1164

Waving Tearful Farewell
A young lady waves a sad farewell to her soldier lover as he returns to the front - for this is 1915, and World War One is taking its toll

Pacini / Saffo / Liebig 3
Saffo, maddened with grief when her lover Faone marries Climene, destroys Apollos altar, an act she will soon regret

Meyerbeer / Prophete / L5
Act Five Scene 6 : when his followers address Jean as their Prophet, Berthe learns her lover and the prophet are one and the same and plunges a dagger into her heart

Dinner with a Dog C1815
A lady of the French aristocracy - thought to be la princesse de Vaudemont - dines en tete-a-tete with her dog, to whom she is offering a leg of chicken

Giuseppina Grassini
GIUSEPPINA GRASSINI An opera singer, and the lover to two of the most famous men of her age, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington

Rama Spurns Demon Lover
RAMA, the seventh avatar of Vishnu, is tempted by Shurpanakha, a Rakshasa (demon) but he spurns her, for which she will seek revenge

Deserted Village / Betray
A young girl, betrayed by her lover, is discussed by two older women

Simonetta Vespucci
SIMONETTA VESPUCCI An noted Florentine beauty and lover of Giuliano de Medici Died tragically young at age 23

Previewing a Lover
A Spanish girl breaks a raw egg into a glass of water on St Johns Eve : the shape it makes tells her what kind of lover she will have

Monsters Embrace
Love-bite ? or is he drinking her blood ? The line between demon lover and vampire is a narrow one

Sophonisba - 2
Numidian daughter of Hasdrubal and queen of Syphax, king of the Masaesylii, renounces him and takes poison sent by her lover Massinissa, to avoid capture by the Romans. 2 of 2

Sophonisba -1
Numidian daughter of Hasdrubal and queen of Syphax, king of the Masaesylii, renounces him and takes poison sent by her lover Massinissa, to avoid capture by the Romans. 1 of 2

Hat with Apples 1909
A young woman, in corset, chemise & stockings, secures her new hat - an enormous concoction with a wide brim & trimmed with 4 apples, with a large hat-pin

Mermaid and Lover
The mermaid falls in love with the King

CORSET C. 1780
L essai du corset - A Frenchwoman in her boudoir is fitted with a corset by a staymaker. Her lover looks on

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