Rising Collection

Felix Dzerzhinsky
FELIX DZERZHINSKY Polish/Russian agitator, banished to Siberia, exiled for part in 1905 rising, returned 1917, head of secret police (Cheka) etc

Countess Constance Markievicz (1868 - 1927)
Constance Markievicz, the elder daughter of Sir Henry Gore-Booth. While living in Paris she met the Polish Count Casimir Markievicz who she married in 1900

Victoria Falls at Sunrise, by Thomas Baines
Victoria Falls at Sunrise with The Smoke or Spraycloud, by Thomas Baines (1820-1875). Date: 1863

Easter Rising 1916
O.P.S soldiers firing from rooftops in Dublin during the Easter rising of 1916

Overhead view of Dublin during the Easter Rising
A birds eye view of Dublin looking westward up the River Liffey, showing positions held by the Sinn Feiners during the Easter Rising in April 1916

Easter Rising commerated, 1932
Five battalions of the Irish Republican Army marching passed the General Post Office in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 1932, to commerate the Easter Rising of 1916

History of England. Peasants revolt led by Wat Tyler in 1381. Meeting between Wat Tyler and the revolutionary priest John Ball. Detail. Miniature of the 15th century by Froissart

The Easter Rising - Dublin, Ireland
The Easter Rising also known as the Easter (or Irish)

Margaret Murray recruiting for the Jacobites, 1745
Margaret Fergusson Murray, Jacobite supporter and wife of (later turncoat) John Murray of Broughton, recruits supporters to the cause and distributes white cockades, the symbol of the Jacobite cause

American Indians. Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux
Portrait of Sitting Bull with elaborate feathered head dress reaching to the ground. Sitting Bull lead the resistance against the Americans which culminated in the defeat of General Custer

Flora MacDonald, Scottish Jacobite heroine, friend and helper of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

The Personification of Finland (Suomi)
The Female Personification of Finland (Suomi), holding aloft the National Flag over the sun rising across the Finnish lakes

England / Thaxted
High Street, Thaxted, Essex, with the fine spire of its Cathedral of Essex church, rising high above the ancient timbered Moot Hall

Tarot Card 10 - La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune)

Freemasons at the Royal Albert Hall
The installation of his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales as Grand Master of the freemasons of England at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Castle Rising / Norfolk
Castle Rising, Norfolk (built by William d Albini in 1176)

Nigerian Rising 1895
Native Nigerians rebel against the Royal Niger Company, which gives place to a protectorate five years later

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Jack and Jill. Within four miles of London, the friends see the sun rising over St Pauls Cathedral. Date: 1914

International baking powder. Manufactured by Queen City Chemical Co. Buffalo, N.Y. Advertisement for International brand baking powder, showing a cat awakened by bread rising. Date c1885

Folklore / Birds / Phoenix
rising from the flames

Photograph of Rising Sun PH, Epsom, Surrey. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

The Ascension of Jesus - Acts 1. circa 1688

The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Naval Admirals
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - Japanese Naval Admirals Date: circa 1905

Balloon ascent on Queen Victorias birthday

Rising floor for Bridge players / W H Robinson
A rising floor in the cars cabin which seconds as a Bridge table can allow those who are keen on both card games and motoring to engage in both pastimes simultaneously

Winter sunrise over isolated cottage with Barn Owl
The weak yellow light of the winter sun rising over a desolate snowy scene surrounding a solitary farmhouse. A landing barn owl has been added to the border framing the scene

Pilgrimage of Grace / 1537
The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rising of Roman Catholics in N.England. It protest against government abolition of papal supremacy and confiscation of smaller monastic properties

Attack on the Wexford Rebels, Ireland, 26 May 1798, in response to an uprising at Oulart Hill led by Father John Murphy (visible on the far right). Date: 1798

Wall mural of Tommy Sands with Moya & Fionan at Belfast
Belfast. Wall mural of Tommy Sands with Moya & Fionan - Rising from the troubles. Date: 2011

Photograph of Rising Sun PH, Chelmsford, Essex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Cartoon, The Federal Phoenix (Abraham Lincoln)
Cartoon, The Federal Phoenix -- Abraham Lincoln portrayed as a phoenix rising from the flames as he is re-elected President. Date: 1864

First compound aeroplane design, with flappers mounted on struts rising from fixed wings set dihedrally on a wheeled car. 1805. From Cayleys original notebook

Tzu-Hsi Dowager Empress
TZU-HSI, aka HSIAO-CH IN &c, generally known as the dowager empress : Manchu ruler who resisted reform, European influences etc, supported the Boxer rising. 1835 - 1908

At the theatre / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper visits his daughter behind the scenes at the theatre, although he oughtn t be standing there on stage right in front of the audience just as the curtain is rising

Alleged Abnormal levitation of a table
Undated photograph of the alleged abnormal levitation of a table (inverted), photographed at a sance with Mrs Poole of Winnipeg. HPG/1/7/25

Easter Rising / Dublin
A general view of central Dublin after the abortive Sinn Fein rising

Vyacheslav Molotov
VYACHESLAV MIKHAYLOVICH MOLOTOV, Russian statesman whose revolutionary career began in the 1905 rising, and played a leading part in 1917, followed by senior posts

Tarot Card 10 - La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune)

Poster, New York World's Fair, The World of Tomorrow
Travel poster, designed by Joseph Binder, New York World?s Fair, The World of tomorrow, 1939, Grinnell Litho, New York, USA

Battle of Edgehill, the rising of the people in defence of liberty. Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, leading the Royalist cavalry. Date: 23 October 1642

Rising Moon over Mount Nanping Date: 1885

Easter Rising / Liberty Hq
Liberty Hall, Dublin, the rebel headquarters after the storming. Date: May 1916

M. C. C. Cricket tour in Australia
Fingleton batting for New South Wales, hit by a rising ball from Voce. Bradman supports him; the Nawab of Pataudi is picking up his bat, while Ames and Jardine are walking across

London Fire Brigade despatch rider at night
The badge of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the design adopted at the 1906 congress held in Copenhagen

Chedworth, Gloucestershire
Village of Chedworth, Gloucestershire Date: 1907

General Skrzynecki
Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki, leader of the November rising, at the head of his troops, acclaimed by the Polish populace

Japanese street
A street in an unknown Japanese town with rayed rising sun flags

Men of the Stone Age worshipping the sun
Men of the Stone Age (Palaeolithic Era) worshipping the sun as it rises

Diagram showing the two kinds of short hydro-aeroplanes which could rise from the water. Date: 1912

Easter Rising, 1916. Soldiers with gun and armoured car in the streets of Dublin outside Dowling or Dowling's pub. Date: 1916

British troops by an improvised armoured car made of locomotive engine smoke-boxes, in Dublin, Ireland, outside the Granville Hotel in 1916 during the Easter Rising

Pedro Antonio Veciana (Pere Anton Veciana i Rabassa) (Sarral, ca. 1682-Valls, 1736). Catalan peasant and politician

Japanese woodblock print - coastal scene with setting (or rising) orange sun - swirling waves lapping the rocks. Date: circa 1910s

Wheel of Fortune on a tarot card
The Wheel of Fortune, as depicted on a tarot card. Date: 1926

The Battle of Glen Shiel, a narrow pass in the north-west Highlands of Scotland, 10 June 1719, part of the Jacobite rising of 1719, an attempt to restore James Francis Edward Stuart

John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar, Council of War before the Battle of Sheriffmuir, Perthshire, Scotland, 13 November 1715, during the Jacobite rising known as the Fifteen

Attack on Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, 1715, during the Jacobite rising known as the Fifteen, an attempt by James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, to regain the throne. Date: 1715

Lochiels charge at the Battle of Killiecrankie, Perthshire, Scotland, 27 July 1689, part of the Jacobite Rising of 1689. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel was fighting on the Jacobite side. Date: 1689

Comic postcard, Doctor, nurse and patient - rising temperature Date: 20th century

Photograph of Rising Sun PH, Walthamstow, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Typical Norman Castle. Date: 11th century

King Cnut commands the tide to retreat (unsuccessfully)
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden

Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Patriotic card. Date: 1913

Fairy rising up in a wave of water
A fairy with wild blond hair, rising up in a wave of water, from The Password to Fairyland. 20th century

Fowler General Purpose Engine number 14910, Rising Star, reg. CT9092 Date: 1981

WW2 American postal cover envelope celebrating victory over the Japanese on the Marshall Islands Date: 1944

In The Bath
A portrait illustration of an older man, whose body is fully engulfed in his bath water, leaving just his head rising above the surface. Date: circa 1901

The Rising Generation, by John Leech, part of a series of 12 drawings published by Punch magazine (1 of 4) Date: 1848

Foreign Street
A drawing which looks down a street, with tall buildings rising on each side, pedestrians are walking down the pavement. Date: circa 1923

Cuban Scene
A painting of some Cuban town houses rising upon an upwards sloping road, leading towards a tower in the background. Date: circa 1923

Sous Bois
A landscape painting of a clearing of grass and wildflowers leading to a thick hedge with trees rising between. Date: circa 1922

Fruit Sellers
A painting of a group of fruit sellers, sat under a simple straw roofed stand, beside a trail of smoke rising into the air, a vulture is perched above them. Date: 1917

Farmhouses
A painting of some industrial farmhouses with a smokestack rising high, they are placed in the centre of a countryside of patched fields and rows of trees. Date: circa 1916

The Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
The Magnetic Hill is an example of a gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain

A young Scottish girl taken out for a ride on a pony. Date: 1915

The Rising Sun
A seascape oil painting showing the rising sun from a beach, looking out across the calm sea. Date: circa 1930

Owakidani, hot springs in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Owakidani, a volcanic valley with active sulphur vents and hot springs in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Owakidani active sulphur vents and hot springs, Japan
Owakidani, a volcanic valley with active sulphur vents and hot springs in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Date: 1929

WW1 - French Patriotic postcard - Our debts
OUR DEBTS - "In your accounts have you allowed for the price of my blood and the blood of my brothers

Mr Austen Chamberlain. Part of Box 104 Boswell Collection

Scene from O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars
Three actors in the pub scene from Sean O'Casey's play, The Plough and the Stars (first performed 1926)

The Zulu war. The entrenched position at Rorke's Drift
The scene as reinforcements arrive at Rorke's Drift, successfully defended by the British from 3, 000 Zulus

Roger Casement Iln Import 21 Dec 07 July 20th
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BOOK OF THE DEAD/PLATE 1
HYMN IN HONOUR OF THE SUN-GOD RA AT HIS RISING Ani with his wife, Tutu, before a table of offerings of meat, cakes, fruit, flowers, etc

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