Personified Collection

Ceres / Demeter Crane 1889
CORN PERSONIFIED - WHEAT (triticum) - BARLEY (hordium) - RYE (secale cereale)

An Autumnal, mushroom fantasy
Mushrooms personified, in this unusual illustration featuring three naked women and a child with mushroom caps upon their heads

Forget Me Not / Language of Flowers
Forget Me Not personified

Melancholy and raving madness, Bedlam Hospital
The figures of melancholy and raving madness over the gateway into Bethlehem(Bedlam)Hospital. Statues by the Danish sculptor Caius Gabriel Cibber Date: 1813

Fable / Old Man & Death
THE OLD MAN & DEATH An old man, exhausted gathering sticks, calls for Death to take him; immediately Death appears, and the man regrets what he wished for

Rosemarinus Officinalis
Rosemary Personified

Justice Personified
Justice holding scales to symbolise even-handedness, stability and equality

Fashionable Shape 1906
The fashionable silhouette of the period as personified by the actress Camille Clifford. The waistline may possibly have been re-touched

The Grim Reaper
Death personified as The Grim Reaper

Crocus & Snowdrop / Language of Flowers
Crocus & Snowdrop personified

Plants / Thymus Serpillium
Wild Thyme Personified

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel. Coloured engraving

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

FABLE / COURT OF DEATH
Death, on his throne, surrounded by his pale courtiers': diseases Date: 1761

KNIGHT OF DEATH/DURER
A fully armed knight going to the wars with a presentiment of coming evil. Accompanied by Sin and Death, personified as his footman and esquire Date: 1564

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card. Date: 1926

Egoism personified. This gentleman occupies six chairs on his own, and without regard to the arrival of strollers, he stretches out an army boot with spur and waves his whip

Anti-Syphilis Ad Date: 1930

SCIENCE AS A GODDESS
Science, personified as a goddess standing on top of the world, directs a ray of light onto a city. Date: 19th century

CHASTITY ALLEGORISED
CHASTITY PERSONIFIED A chaste girl walks through the wicked world, shy but confident, while the unchaste (dark-skinned) shrink away, and other girls admire her Date: circa 1850

THE GRACES
The CHARITES of Greek myth were daughters of Zeus and Eurynome : AGLAIA, EUPHROSYNE and THALIA personified and bestowed beauty and charm

Plants - Ilex Aquifolium
HOLLY PERSONIFIED Date: 1906

France. Paris. Triumphal Arch. Depart of 1792. La Marseillaise personified on the Arc de Triomphe. by Francois Rude. The sculptural group celebrates the cause of the French First Republic during

WW1 - Cartoon - German gun Big Bertha
WW1 - A satirical cartoon illustrating the German gun personified as Big Bertha attacking the city of Paris. As the city is underattack

WW1 - Cartoon - German gun Big Bertha in action
WW1 - A cartoon big lady personifying the German gun known as Big Bertha, firing from Calais at Dover. Date: 1918

WW1 - Kaiser disappointed with his Zeppelin and U-Boat
WW1 - An illustration mocking the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Here he is depicted in his night robes, holding a down-scaled zeppelin in one arm, and a U-Boat in the other

German Boar held at Verdun - Cartoon
The German Boar held at Verdun. Date: 1916

BONAIUTO DA FIRENZE, Andrea (1346-1379). The Triumph of Catholic Doctrine, personified in Saint Thomas Aquinas. 1365-1368. ITALY. Florence

Greek Anti-British Propaganda Postcard - this translates as: " Greek Soldiers - this is whom you are fighting!" The British forces are characterised as a fat John Bull

Fuchsia / Language of Flowers
Fuchsia personified

Jack Frost in Germany
He strides over the wintry countryside

Slab of wall covering with a winged Nike. Roman. 1st c. BC-1s
Slab of wall covering with a winged Nike. Roman. Late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD. Moulded terracotta. From Tarragona (?). Episcopal Museum of Vic. Catalonia. Spain

Statue of a reclining man. Greece
Statue of a reclining man, probably the personification of the Charadros river. 2nd century. From Pythion. Archaeological Museum of Marathon. Greece

Autumn Personified
Autumn personified by an attractive girl wearing little other than bonnet and some autumn leaves around her body. Date: 1912

Some Attrition, 1915
Austrian Civilian: " Hullo, old man, you look a bit dicky" Austrian Army: " So would you if you d been annihilated about a hundred and twenty-two times" Date: 1915

WW1 - A Saving Grace
WW1 - An illustration personifying Britain as Little John Bull and Big John Bull. John Bull in his living room reading newspaper articles by Percy Scott and books by John Jellicoe

WW1 - Balkan Indecision
WW1 - An illustrated personification of Romanias and Bulgarias indecision and role in the war. The two countries are personified as two men in conversation to decide whether to take a swim in

WW1 - Successful Zeppelin raid
WW1 - The achievement and success of a recent zeppelin raid. The zeppelin is characterised as the child, that has returned, weeping to its Father the emperor

Master Tommys Admiration
A slide showing a small boy standing next to a table looking at a personified Christmas pudding. Part of Box 366 Date: circa 1900

The Fairy Pageant, Bonzos Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Britiannia Bides Her Time
" Britiannia Bides Her Time.", Alick P. F. ritchie, The Bystander front cover, 19th August 1914. In 1914, Britannia really did rule the waves

Fog Personified
Fog personified

Vine Personified
The vine personified Date: 1847

Lily / Language of Flowers
Lily personified

Blush Rose / Language of Flowers
Blush Rose personified

Convolvulus / Language of Flowers
Convolvulus personified

Mossrose / Language of Flowers
Mossrose personified

Harebell / Language of Flowers
Harebell personified

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