Marble Collection (page 32)

Lady Polishes a Table
A young housewife polishes the marble coffee table

Gas Fire 1960S
The ultimate in modern chic - a coal-effect gas fire with marble effect surround! This lucky woman warms herself by it with her cat, a sherry and reel-to-reel tape player

Statue of Zeus, Olympia
The giant statue was carved by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC from ivory. It was slowly destroyed by fire, floods, earthquakes and landslides

Buildings / 7 Wonders
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely from marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

Buckingham Palace 1839
The Palace, with Nashs improvements completed, seen from St Jamess Park, with the Marble Arch which stood before it from 1827 to 1851

Buckingham House 1827
The Palace seen from St Jamess Park - still in a very natural state, with cows ! - before the erection of the Marble Arch which stood before it from 1827 to 1851

Various Marbles
Patterns of various types of marble

Kent Village Street
Boys play marbles, a girl wheels her little sister in a pram, unworried by traffic in the High Street of Biddenden, Kent. Date: 1907

Debenhams Marble Hall
Elegantly dressed shoppers in the Marble Hall at Debenham & Freebodys new premises at 44 Wigmore Street, London

Marble from Carrara
Twelve oxen are needed to drag this piece of marble from the quarries at Carrara, Italy

London / Marble Arch
Marble Arch, at the time part of Hyde Park

7 Wonders / Diana / Sargent
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely from marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

7 Wonders / Diana / Won. Mus
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely from marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

Homer / Red Background
HOMER Greek poet

Boys Playing Marbles
Three boys playing marbles Date: circa 1840

Mother Carey / Water Baby
Tom encounters Mother Carey, seated on her white marble throne, resting her chin in her hand & gazing down into the sea

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