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Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 6

Letitia Landon - 6
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 5

Letitia Landon - 5
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 1

Letitia Landon - 1
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Girl looks longingly at her unobtainable hearts desire

Girl looks longingly at her unobtainable hearts desire
A girl looks longingly and very sadly at her unobtainable hearts desire, sadly buried in a prickly thistle. Date: 1906

Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 9

Letitia Landon - 9
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 8

Letitia Landon - 8
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 4

Letitia Landon - 4
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 3

Letitia Landon - 3
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Letitia Landon - 2

Letitia Landon - 2
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON wife of George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, West Africa : immensely popular and prolific poet and novelist who sadly died young. Date: 1802 - 1838

Background imageSadly Collection: Societys 3 Orders

Societys 3 Orders
A cleric, a noble and a peasant represent the three strata of French society before the Revolution. Sadly, mutual hugging will soon change to lethal recrimination Date: eighteenth century

Background imageSadly Collection: Condemned Housing

Condemned Housing
Lovely old terraced houses, sadly due for demolition. Date: 19th century

Background imageSadly Collection: Nantymoch Chapel

Nantymoch Chapel, in the Upper Rheidol Valley, Cardiganshire Wales. Sadly submerged when the Rheidol Hydro-Electric Scheme was completed in 1964. Date: 19th century

Background imageSadly Collection: Thomas Amory

Thomas Amory
THOMAS AMORY Churchman, of whose aspirations, achievements, accidents and adventures we sadly know nothing. Date: 1701 - 1774

Background imageSadly Collection: Charles Ray Directing

Charles Ray Directing
When his acting career sagged, Charles Ray turned to direction : sadly his movies lacked box-office appeal. But this is a nice intimate shot of 20s film- making. Date: circa 1922

Background imageSadly Collection: Brunnhilde and Ring

Brunnhilde and Ring
Act one : Brunnhilde sadly cherishes the ring that Siegfried left with her when he went off on his adventures

Background imageSadly Collection: Kenwington Winter Gdn

Kenwington Winter Gdn
Proposed Winter Garden, sadly never built in South Kensington

Background imageSadly Collection: Temple Bar Removed

Temple Bar Removed
The removal of Temple Bar, which, however picturesque, was a terrible obstacle to traffic : it was re-erected in Theobalds Park, near Waltham Cross where it was sadly neglected

Background imageSadly Collection: Lear / Nonsense / The Dee

Lear / Nonsense / The Dee
There was an Old Man of the Dee, who was sadly annoyed by a flea; When he said, I will scratch it, they gave him a hatchet, which grieved that Old Man of the Dee

Background imageSadly Collection: Driving cattle for rent in Ireland

Driving cattle for rent in Ireland
A mans livestock is being driven away in lieu of outstanding rent. The owner and his family can only stand by and watch. Two young women carrying wood and water stand sadly

Background imageSadly Collection: Isabeau De Baviere 2

Isabeau De Baviere 2
The triumphal entry of Isabeau de Baviere (Isabella of Bavaria) into Paris to marry the teenaged Charles VI - who, sadly, will go mad while she will become a traitor

Background imageSadly Collection: Serb Soldiers Kiss Cross

Serb Soldiers Kiss Cross
Serbian soldiers kiss the Christian crucifix before invading Bulgaria. Sadly, it won t do them a spot of good, they will be soundly beaten and return home in gloom

Background imageSadly Collection: Milan of Serbia

Milan of Serbia
King Milan I of Serbia travels to the front, where he will take personal command of his army against the Bulgarians. Sadly, he will lead them to defeat, not victory

Background imageSadly Collection: Ferdinand at Review

Ferdinand at Review
The archduke Franz Ferdinand reviews troops at Tarcin. Sadly, a Serbian nationalist will see to it that this is one of the last acts of his career

Background imageSadly Collection: Robbing the Orchard by Louis Wain

Robbing the Orchard by Louis Wain
An unusual illustration by Louis Wain, more usually known for his cat drawings, showing a group of children stealing apples from an orchard

Background imageSadly Collection: The Old Vine Tavern

The Old Vine Tavern which literally stood in the road at the junction of Mile End Road and Cambridge Heath Road, east London, was sadly demolished in the early 1900s

Background imageSadly Collection: Muses and Magpies

Muses and Magpies
The Muses are challenged by the nine daughters of Pieros to a singing contest; but the talentless females are sadly out-sung and are turned into magpies for their presumption

Background imageSadly Collection: Cavalry Versus Tanks

Cavalry Versus Tanks
Poland : German tanks invading Poland are confronted by gloriously heroic but sadly ineffectual cavalry

Background imageSadly Collection: Hensons Steam Carriage

Hensons Steam Carriage
William Samuel Henson along with John Stringfellow designed the Aerial Steam Carriage. Prints like this foretold a success that was sadly not forthcoming

Background imageSadly Collection: Fishing by the Mill

Fishing by the Mill
The Middle Mill, formerly called The Kings Mill, on the River Colne, Colchester, Essex, England, now sadly demolished forever

Background imageSadly Collection: Wilhelm Muller - 1

Wilhelm Muller - 1
WILHELM MULLER German writer of the romantic era who died at a sadly early age

Background imageSadly Collection: Tani San in Washing Tub

Tani San in Washing Tub
O Tani San, hoping to win the love of a priest who has set her this task, tries to sail across Lake Biwa in a wash- tub, but sadly she drowns and her ghost causes storms

Background imageSadly Collection: Belvedere Mansion

Belvedere Mansion
The impressive mansion in Belvedere, Kent, England, seat of Sir Sampson Gideon, a fabulously wealthy financier. Sadly demolished in 1959

Background imageSadly Collection: Girl / Cat / Broken Jar

Girl / Cat / Broken Jar
A little girl looks sadly down at a broken jar - her little cat looks sheepish

Background imageSadly Collection: Sockette Fashion 1929

Sockette Fashion 1929
The sockette fashion and some of its exponents demonstrate that there are those who can get away with it and others, who sadly, cannot!

Background imageSadly Collection: Electric Dog-Cart 1888

Electric Dog-Cart 1888
Electric dog-cart : battery- powered. For a while, car designers will look to electricity for their motive power, but sadly, combustion will triumph

Background imageSadly Collection: Royal Exchange C17

Royal Exchange C17
The courtyard of Thomas Greshams Royal Exchange, modelled on the bourse at Antwerp : sadly, it will be destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666

Background imageSadly Collection: Edith Scannell Artist

Edith Scannell Artist
EDITH MAUD SUSANNA SCANNELL an artistic lady who sadly failed to earn an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography so we don t know very much about her

Background imageSadly Collection: So Sad to Go to School

So Sad to Go to School
A young mother in a mini dress stands sadly at her front door and watches her downhearted little son, hands behind his back, as he walks down the garden path to go to school

Background imageSadly Collection: Bismarck in Reichstag

Bismarck in Reichstag
Bismarck announces to the North German Bund that, sadly, Prussia has no choice but, with the utmost reluctance, to go to war with France

Background imageSadly Collection: Mistaken for a Bird

Mistaken for a Bird
This hunter saw a movement in the branches of a tree, and fired at what he assumed was a bird. Sadly, he was mistaken



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