Mercury Collection (page 2)

Theodosius I on horseback with sceptre. Theodosius the Great with sceptre, plumed helmet and caparisoned horse. From a column in Istanbul built after his victory over Magnus Maximus. Porta Aurea

Two views of the surface of the planet Mercury -- a sun-scorched area and a frosty area. Date: 1950s

View of a street and fountain of Mercury, Pompeii
View of a street and fountain of Mercury, VI.8.24, Pompeii. Chromolithograph and illustration by G. Autoriello from Antonio Niccolinis Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii)

Taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI. 5, Pompeii
Thermolopium or taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI.5, Pompeii. A man cooks food at a stove, while a women serves a customer using scales

Shop near the fountain of Mercury, VI. 5, Pompeii
Shop near the fountain of Mercury, VI.5, Pompeii. Chromolithograph and illustration by G. Autoriello from Antonio Niccolinis Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restaurations)

Vase decorated with mythical figures from the British Museum
Vase decorated with mythical figures including Minerva, Hercules, Mercury, etc. from the British Museum. Copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc

Dog mercury, Mercurialis perennis, MERCORELLA MASCHIO. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi di P.A

Annual mercury, Mercurialis annua, and dog mercury, Mercurialis perrenis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Varieties of minerals and resins including mercury, cinnabar, cobalt, sandarac. Handcoloured copperplate engraved and drawn by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van

Perennial mercury, Mercurialis perennis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Manaca, Brunfelsia uniflora
Manaca or vegetable mercury, Brunfelsia uniflora. (Short-flowered franciscea, Franciscea hopeana.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker

Metals including lead, iron, mercury and bismuth
Metals including lead 1, iron 2, 3, 4, mercury 5, 6, bismuth 7 and antimony 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

The education of Bacchus. Three nymphs offer a bunch of grapes to the little god Bacchus who is raised up by his tutor Silenus. Mercury sits at right with a cithara (lyre)

Blenheim Bombers Blenheim Bombers
Blenheim Bombers - Long-nose Blenheim Mk. IV. Two 930 H.P. Bristol Mercury Engines. Speed 295mph. Range - 1, 900 miles. Attacking Knapsack Power Station, Hurth, Rhine-Erft district

Blenheim Fighter-Bomber Blenheim Fighter-Bomber
Blenheim Fighter-Bomber - short-nose version of one of Britains best-known aircraft. Bristol Mercury 920 H.P. engines. 295mph. Range - 1, 900 miles. Date: circa 1940s

Early Motor Car Racing - The Gordon-Bennett Trophy

Curtis British Entomology Plate 218
Hymenoptera: Megachile willughbiella (Willughby?s Leaf-cutter Bee) [Plant: Mercurialis annua (Annual Mercury)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 28
Hemiptera: Acanthosoma haemorrhoidalis = Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale (Red-tipped Shield Bug) [Plant: Mercurialis perennis (Dog?s Mercury)] Date: 1824-39

Shorts S. 20 Mercury G-ADHJ
Shorts S.20 Mercury G-ADHJ of Imperial Airways Major Robert H. Mayo, the Technical General Manager at Imperial Airways, proposed mounting a small

Miles M. 28 Mercury 5 G-AJFE
The sole Miles M.28 Mercury 5 G-AJFE (msn 6697) at Woodley circa the first flight. Re-registered in Switzerland in June 1951, returning to the UK in December 1954

Mercury Date: 1850

Shopkeeper Closes Up Date: 1950

Button Making, Elliotts Factory, Birmingham 1844
A woman sits in front of a gilding oven at Elliotts Button Factory, Birmingham. The buttons are coated in a mixture of mercury and gold

HERMES AND BATTUS
Hermes/Mercury metamorphoses the shepherd Battus into a touchstone, whereby gold and silver may be tested

MERCURY AND THE CAMEL

FALL / FOX TERRIER / 1962
BURMAR MERCURY Owned by Barton. Date: 1962

Et Angels from Mercury
Dante tells us that these angels are inhabitants of the planet Mercury

ANGELS / PLANET MERCURY
The angels in the Planet Mercury: So drew full more than thousand splendours towards us. (Canto V, lines 99-100) Date: First published: 1307-21?

APHRODITE / ?FPB ENGRAVING
As the Woman of the Sea she is depicted with her emblem, a Dolphin (the king of the fishes), which is ridden by Cupid (in Roman myth her son by Mercury)

APHRODITE
As the Woman of the Sea she is depicted with her emblem, a Dolphin (the king of the fishes), which is ridden by Cupid (in Roman myth her son by Mercury)

PHILEMON & BAUCIS PHILEMON & BAUCIS
Poor cottagers Philemon and Baucis (husband and wife) entertained the (disguised) travellers Mercury and Jupiter so well that their cottage was transformed into a palace. Date: circa 780 BC

Hermes - Mercury - Tooke
Classical Mythology - Hermes (Mercury), Messenger of the Gods - from Tookes Pantheon

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Mercury must withstand colossal heat, and for this reason are likely to exist in the form of insects. Date: 1939

Royal Air Force Miles M. 25 Martinet I
Miles M.25 Martinet I target tug, the first dedicated target tug designed for the Royal Air Force, powered by a 870hp Bristol Mercury XX or Mercury 30. - Photograph date 28th July 1941. Date: 1941

Mercury God of Speed - Murrays Cabaret Club Costume
Mercury God of Speed - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London

Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom beside his Mercury space?
Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom beside his Mercury spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7, at Cape Canaveral for a second attempt at his sub-orbital flight following the earlier cancellation due to bad weather

Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom is raised in a lift to t?
Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom is raised in a lift to the Mercury capsule at the top of the Redstone rocket at Cape Canaveral prior to his delayed flight which was cancelled due to bad weather

The Gemini, left, and Mercury spacecraft compared

Stylised illustration depicting Fortune and Mercury
Stylised illustration depicting Fortune bearing an overflowing cornucopia and Mercury, the winged messenger god. The Vienna Secession was an art movement formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists

Hermathena. Fresco. Italy
Hermathena. Fusion of Mercury and Athena. 16th century fresco by Federico Zuccari. Farnese Palace. Caprarola. Italy

Minerva, Mars, and Mercury, Roman gods.. Handcolored copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from Mythology in Prints

Christmas card in the shape of a barometer. Date: circa 1890s

Mercury. Roman god of trade. (identified as the Greek Hermes). Bronze statuette. From the Ribes Valley, Ripoll?s. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Catalonia. Spain

Mercury. 3rd century. Roman art. Mosaic. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Tarragona. National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona

CUYP, Albert Jacobsz (1620-1691). Mercury. Baroque art. Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Banco Exterior de Espa񡠨 Overseas Trade Bank of Spain) Collection

The Roman God Mercury silhouetted against a star
The Roman God Mercury (Greek God Hermes) silhouetted against a star in the sky. This image is an example of gold and silver ink printing on ordinary chromo label paper

Short-Mayo composite aircraft, S21 Maia, G-ADHK, and S20 Mercury, G-ADHJ

Flt Lt Wood and FO Douglas in Handley Page Halifax VI Mercury. 1946. Date: 1946

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