Pillar Gallery

Billiard Room, Union Jack Club, Lambeth, London

View of the Billiard Room at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo Road, Lambeth, London. The club opened in 1907 to cater for members and ex-members of the armed forces. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans/Pharcide

1910s, Armed, Billiard, Billiards, Club, Edwardian, Floor, Fluted, Forces, Game, Jack, Lambeth, Lamp, Lamp Shade, Leisure, Parquet, Pillar, Pocket, Relaxation, Road, Room, Shade, Table, Union, Waterloo

Winged Victoria figure, Siegessaule, Berlin, Germany

The winged bronze Victoria figure on the top of the Siegessaeule (Pillar of Victory). The Victory Column (Siegessaule) in Berlin, Germany, designed in the 1860s to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War. By the time it was inaugurated in 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71)."

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Hubertus Kanus

Scenes from the Pillar of the Boatmen

Scenes from the Pillar of the Boatmen, monumental Roman column erected in Lutetia (Paris) in honour of Jupiter by the guild of boatmen in the 1st century AD. Vulcan, Jove, Apollo, Bacchus, Hercules, Castor, Pollux, etc. Monumenti di Barcaioli di Parigi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1844

© Florilegius