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Background imageRejects Collection: Jesus Rejects Satan

Jesus Rejects Satan
Jesus, in the wilderness, is tempted by Satan with attractive special offers, but rejects them and him

Background imageRejects Collection: Beauty / Beast (Anderson)

Beauty / Beast (Anderson)
Anne Anderson gives us a truly monstrous beast : no wonder Beauty rejects the marriage proposals he makes every night at the supper-table

Background imageRejects Collection: Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, Japanese traditional story

Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, Japanese traditional story
Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, in a Japanese traditional story involving the beautiful daughter of a village magistrate who falls in love with a young priest

Background imageRejects Collection: BALLAD / THE GARDENER

BALLAD / THE GARDENER
THE GARDENER The gardener offers the maiden his flowers, but includes a weed, so she rejects him and foretells his death - the new fallen snow to be your smock Date: traditional

Background imageRejects Collection: BADEN-POWELL / CHIEF SCOUT

BADEN-POWELL / CHIEF SCOUT
LORD ROBERT STEPHENSON SMYTH BADEN-POWELL English army and Chief scout rejects Boer embassy calling on him to surrender Mafeking Date: 1857 - 1941

Background imageRejects Collection: David Lloyd George WWI cartoon

David Lloyd George WWI cartoon
David Lloyd George, recently installed as the new British Prime Minister, rejects the Central Powers peace note of December 1916, in favour of continued war

Background imageRejects Collection: Picus into Woodpecker

Picus into Woodpecker
Picus, a Roman forest deity, rejects the offered affection of the witch Circe, so to avenge herself she changes him into a woodpecker

Background imageRejects Collection: Cartoon, Tiddy Doll the great French Gingerbread Baker

Cartoon, Tiddy Doll the great French Gingerbread Baker, drawing out a new Batch of Kings, his Man, Hopping Talley [Talleyrand], mixing up the Dough, by James Gillray

Background imageRejects Collection: The Suffragette and Cupid

The Suffragette and Cupid. Suffragette with flag and sash rejects Cupids advances but, You may think it fun, poor Cupid to snub, with the hand of a suffragette, But hes cunning and smart

Background imageRejects Collection: WW2 - Keep em Flying - Off the Beam

WW2 - Keep em Flying - Off the Beam - It looks as if our plucky pilot was a bit out of line and is now facing the consequences!! Date: 1942

Background imageRejects Collection: Electing a President

Electing a President
General Cavaignac looks on with dismay, Louis Napoleon waits complacently, as France rejects monarchy in favour of a Republic. Napoleon has his own ideas about that

Background imageRejects Collection: Radetsky & Vitt. Eman

Radetsky & Vitt. Eman
After the defeat of Novara, the new king of Sardinia, Vittorio Emanuele, rejects the demands of Austrian commander Radetsky. Even so, the terms are harsh

Background imageRejects Collection: Gideon Chooses his Men

Gideon Chooses his Men
His criterion for picking his men is the way they drink from a river : if they kneel and bow their heads he rejects them, choosing only those who lap from their cupped hands

Background imageRejects Collection: France Rejects Hoover

France Rejects Hoover
The Hoover Plan : The other nations are all prepared to drink Hoovers peace-soup, but France goes into a tantrum and refuses to drink the stuff

Background imageRejects Collection: Orithyia Abducted

Orithyia Abducted
The wind-god Boreas falls in love with the nymph Orithyia : when she rejects him, he abducts her and they have twins who, like their father, have wings

Background imageRejects Collection: Scylla into Lark

Scylla into Lark
Scylla, daughter of Nisus but in love with his enemy Minos, betrays him, but Minos is appalled at her behaviour and rejects her, whereupon she is transformed into a lark

Background imageRejects Collection: Fox and Napoleon

Fox and Napoleon
CHARLES JAMES FOX in his last year rejects Bonapartes friendly overtures, calling him a little Corsican reptile whereas formerly they had been friendly

Background imageRejects Collection: Charles Rejects Treaty

Charles Rejects Treaty
Charles I rejects the Treaty of Oxford

Background imageRejects Collection: Lorgues / Porras Rejects

Lorgues / Porras Rejects
Columbus authority is rejected by the brothers Porras

Background imageRejects Collection: Judas Rejects the Silver

Judas Rejects the Silver
Judas regrets that he betrayed Jesus : he rejects the thirty pieces of silver paid him by the High Priests, and goes into the fields and hangs himself

Background imageRejects Collection: Silversmiths at Work

Silversmiths at Work
Silversmiths at work - illustration to the prophecies of Jeremiah, chapter 6, who likens the wicked to repro- -bate silver which the Lord rejects as not up to standard

Background imageRejects Collection: Falstaff Rejected

Falstaff Rejected
Henry V, newly crowned, rejects Falstaff : I know thee not, old man

Background imageRejects Collection: Wallace / Cambuskenneth

Wallace / Cambuskenneth
William Wallace rejects the English proposals at Cambuskenneth

Background imageRejects Collection: St Paul tells Festus he is not insane

St Paul tells Festus he is not insane
St Paul rejects the charge of insanity made against him by the Roman official Festus, as described in the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 26


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