Rosary Gallery

Lourdes, France - The Virgin Crowned statue

Lourdes, France - The Statue of the Crowned Virgin, often known as the "Crowned Statue" (La Vierge Couronnee), standing across Rosary Square from the Rosary Basilica, facing the entrance. The statue, cast in bronze, is painted white and blue in the traditional colours and has a rosary in the Birgittine style incorporating six decades. Date: circa 1914

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Production of Gounods Faust by Carl Rosa Opera Company

Characters from Charles Gounod's opera Faust in a touring production by the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Seen here are Charles Manners as Bertram, the Irish tenor Barton McGuckin as Faust, Amanda Fabris as Maritana, and Fanny Moody as Marguerite.
1888

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Wolfgang Christoph von Leoprechting, died 1637

Bourgeoise fashion from a gravestone in St. Catherine's Church, Frankfurt, 1468. . Bourgeoise fashion from the late 15th century from a gravestone in St. Catherine's Church, Frankfurt, 1468. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 18th Century, Frankfurt, 1883. IIlustration drawn by Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier, and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German archeologist, art historian and illustrator. He was director of the Bavarian National Museum from 1868 until 1886

© Florilegius / Mary Evans