Obscure Collection

Angerona Goddess
A Roman goddess of obscure attributes : depicted here with finger to lips, she is also represented with her mouth bound, so there are connotations of secrecy

Hardy / Jude the Obscure
Jude at the mile-stone

Hey Diddle Diddle
The artist has got cow, cat, fiddle, dish, spoon and dog into his picture, but the connection between them remains obscure

Savoy Steps, 1st State
An etching of the Savoy Steps which lead under an entrance archway of an obscure city alleyway. Date: circa 1915

Comic postcard, William & Rose, with a pair of reefs down - a completely blank, blue rectangle. What could it possibly mean? Answers on a postcard, please! Date: 20th century

Grasshoppers and locusts
Obscure bird grasshopper, Schistocerca obscura 1, fork-tailed bush katydid, Scudderia furcata 2, lubber grasshopper, Taeniopoda centurio 3, and coffee locust, Aularches miliaris subsp. miliaris 4

A man of the Admiralty Islands, wearing ear-rings and another in his nose, carrying two obscure objects... Date: circa 1780

Blackmore Vale - Wessex
Blackmore Vale, Dorset: the setting for one of the episodes in Thomas Hardys novel, Jude the Obscure Date: 1906

Izmir, Turkey - The Dark Gateway at the foot of Mount Pagus Date: circa 1907

History of Photography. Camera obscure. Engraving. Colored
History of Photography. Camera obscure. Magia Naturalis Sive de Miraculis Rerum Naturalium (1558) by Giambattista della Porta (1535-1615). Engraving. Edition of 1659. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona

J H Forsyth
J H FORSYTH - obscure cleric who might serve as a model for those comely curates and dishy divines that Punch liked to depict drooled about by female members of the congregation... Date: circa 1841

Peter Barlow
PETER BARLOW (1776 - 1862) a splendid example of a Victorian self- made man, rising from obscure schoolmaster to eminent mathematician, scientist and engineer, professor, F.R.S.&c. Date: circa 1850

Proposal for Southwark Cathedral, London
Londons hidden cathedral: a proposal to make Southwark Cathedral (near London Bridge) more visible, showing the area which currently obscures it from public view. Date: 1912

John Watkins
JOHN WATKINS compiler of the Universal Biographical Dictionary, but his own biography is obscure. Date: ? - 1831+

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Stingy Librarian regretting charity
Stingy Librarian - Not the Troops best friend! She only seems willing to part with the most obscure titles to ship out to the boys at the frontline

Philippe I D orleans
PHILIPPE I, duc d ORLEANS brother of Louis XIV, founder of later Orleans line : here depicted for some obscure reason as John the Baptist

Religion / Persia (Iran)
Obscure goings-on in ancient Persia

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