Nuns Collection (page 3)

Pigeons - Three Nuns with varied colourations, Fancy Breed
A portrait of three Nuns with varied colourations standing in their pigeon coop. The Nun is a breed of fancy pigeon, also known as the Dutch Shell Pigeon

Parisian street characters.. Handcolored aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Victor Auver from A Tour through Paris, William Sams, London, 1825

Nuns Moor Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England. Showing the bandstand Date: 1900s

China - Tien Tsin Ruins
Lantern slide of Tien Tsin Ruins. The Tientsin Massacre (Tianjin Religious Case), one of the most important missionary incidents of the late Qing Dynasty

Paris, France - Eglise des Filles du Calvaire. Date: 17th century

Paris, France - Conciergie. Date: circa 1850

St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton
Girls at play with hoops, skipping ropes and a swing at St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton. Nuns stand in supervision. Date: Date unknown

Laundry at Girls Home
The laundry at a girls home, possibly a Magdalen home, location unknown. Nuns are supervising the work. Sheets are being ironed in a roller press. Date: Date unknown

Advertisement for Three Nuns tobacco
Advertisement for Bells Three Nuns tobacco, showing an historical scene with a man in a wig in the garden of a thatched cottage, enjoying a cigarette. 1914

Bullet-holes in the walls and windows of an Ypres convent
War damage in a church belonging to a convent of nuns in the French town of Ypres during the First World War. 1916

BENLLIURE ORTIZ, Jos頨1884-1916). Nuns. Oil
BENLLIURE ORTIZ, Jos頨 1884-1916). Nuns. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Valencia. San Pio V Fine Arts Museum

MARIA DE MOLINA (1265-1321). Queen of Castile (1284-1295), wife of Sancho IV. Maric de Molina with the nuns of the Convent of the Huelgas Reales. Anonymous of the 13th c. Oil. SPAIN

Novice Nuns - Kalaw
Kalaw - Novice nuns Date: 1952

Advertisement with silhouette for Scenic Fair
Advertisement for a Scenic Fair, showing the silhouette of a nun holding a flower

Mission on The Gilbert Islands (4 / 9)
The Republic of Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands) - The Convent of Catholic Sisters at Tarawa Date: circa 1910

The penitent

Nuns in a Convent
One of the least interesting postcards in our collection, this is the convent of the Communaute de l Immaculee- Conception at Saint-Meen (L&V). Date: circa 1900

Devastation during bombing, Ostend, Belgium, WW1
Devastation inside a church in Ostend, Belgium, during the First World War. Nuns stand on the right, looking at the bodies of women, and a jumble of wooden chairs. Date: circa 1914

Belgian nuns and others, Adinkerke, Belgium, WW1
Belgian nuns and others walking along a road at Adinkerke, behind the Yser front in Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Christmas at Canton, 1911
Young Chinese girls at a Roman Catholic school of music in Canton, being taught to play Christmas carols by French nuns. Date: 1911

Incense. The popular fregranced aromatics illsutrated by Gordon Nicoll who pays tribute to Three Nuns Imperial Tobacco. The picture portraying the products in a library with a porcelain pot

Benedictine Nuns

Augustinian Nuns
AUGUSTINIAN NUNS one holds an ikon Date: late 19th century

Nun at the Window
A young nun looks through her window and contemplates life outside the convent walls : did she make the right choice, she asks herself... Date: early 19th century

Nun with background of four palm trees
A nun walks towards the camera, with four palm trees in the background

Romania - Namoesci Monastery
Romania - Hillside Namoesci Monastery

Crowd at Grotto at Lourdes, France
The crowd awaiting access to the Grotto at Lourdes, France

Saint-Charles - Algeria - Orphans
A French Mission to Africa (Saint Charles) - nuns running a home for orphans in Algeria

Nuns in charabanc
A group of nuns in white habits in a charabanc on their way to Lourdes, France

Ferikoy - Constantinople - Notre Dame de Zion School. School children at play (on swing) with nun

Grand Princess Elizaveta Feodorovna as a nun
Grand Princess Elizaveta Feodorova (Grand Duchess Sergei), formerly Princess Elisabeth or Ella or Hesse Darmstadt, dressed as a nun

Womans Part in the War
Watched by a policeman, nurses and nuns leave the War Office after receiving their orders following the outbreak of war in August 1914

Wounded Soldiers in the Palace of Versailles; Franco-Prussia
Illustration showing the hospital set up in the Galerie of Louis XIII, in the Palace of Versailles, for the Prussian wounded soldiers during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1

Russian Nuns
Russian nuns of the order of saint Vasili (Basil)

Child Left at Convent
An inconvenient child is left at a convent door

A Nun Takes the Veil
a Nun Takes the Veil

Nun with Umbrella
Taking the veil may protect her from contact with sin, but even a nun needs an umbrella to keep off the rain

Romance and Reality 1869
Convent Life - Romance and Reality

French Street Traders
A man pulls a water cart, a minstrel sings along to his hand-cranked music box and a lady sits mending socks, on a street with a dentist, upholsterer and oyster shop

Hysterical French Nun
In 17th century France, a hysterical nun breaks loose from her bonds and terrifies the convent with her insistence that she is possessed by demons

Loudun / Soeur Claire 2
Despite being exorcised, Claire de Sazilly, one of the afflicted nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule, refuses to admit that she is possessed by the demon

Aldgate Congestion
A " traffic block" in Aldgate High street, east London. Note the predominance of horse- drawn over motorised vehicles; Aldgate tube station and the Three Nuns Hotel on the left

Sewing class in a German Catholic girls school
A sewing class taking place in a German Catholic girls school

Loudun / Surin and Demon
Pere Surin, sent to exorcise the demons plaguing the nuns of Saint-Ursule, is himself assailed by the nasty creatures

Loudun - Grandier Accuse
The nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule accuse Urbain Grandier of throwing a bewitched rose-sprig into their garden, causing them to be victims of his lust

Loudun - Nuns Exorcised
The nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule are exorcised to rid them of the demons by which they are possessed

S. Rosa Di Viterbo
Santa Rosa of Viterbo has her uncorrupted hand kissed by pope Pius VI, who then as a thank-you to the nuns, allows them to kiss his feet

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig3
Act 3 scene 7 : Bertram, the Devil, summons from their graves the spirits of nuns who failed to keep their vows, and promises to add Robert to their number

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