Seventeenth Collection

St Michael Archangel by Guido Reni Date: 1635

Dubrovnik. Map of the city before the earthquake of 1667. Croatia

Col. Blood / Jewel Thief
Colonel Thomas Blood, an audacious rogue known as the Man who stole the Crown Jewels from the basement of the Tower of London

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), diarist and Naval administrator. Date: 1666

First Authenticated Christmas Tree - Strasbourg
Christmas Tree in History and Legend: The Earliest Authenticated Christmas Tree in Strasbourg (at this time in Germany). A merchant of Strasburg (a Mr Forbes)

MAYs COOKERY BOOK 1685
The Accomplished Cook, or the art and mystery of Cookery : a seventeenth century guide to success in the kitchen by Robert May

C17 Sailing Ships
A ships boat takes an officer ashore past two naval vessels

The Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes and conspirators
Early 19th century impression of the main protagonists in the conspiracy to blow up Parliament in 1605. From left, Tesmond, Garnet, T. Percy, Catesby, I. Wright, Guy Fawkes, I

Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, New England, 1620
The Pilgrim Fathers arriving at Plymouth, New England in 1620. Date: 1918

Frost Fair by Jan Griffier the Elder
The famous Frost Fair taking place on the frozen River Thames in London in 1683. Freezing to around eleven inches thick, the ice was strong enough to hold shops, stalls, coaches and sleds

Matthew Henry - English Bible commentator and writer
Matthew Henry (1662-1714) - English Bible commentator, minister of a Presbyterian congregation at Chester and writer. Also known as a nonconformist divine and theologian. Date: circa 1700s

Lute Music by the Canal, Hendrick Sorgh
A lute player entertains a lady in a Dutch interior, seventeenth century. Date: 1939

Elizabethan Warship
Illustration of an Elizabethan Warship

Words by King Charles II
Poem written by King Charles II entitled I Pass All My Hours in a Shady Old Grove, accompanied by a stylised illustration of the Merry Monarch composing under the shade of an oak tree

A man dressed in authentic English Civil War costume. Date: c. 1910
A man dressed in authentic English Civil War costume. Date: c.1910

DUTCH MERCHANT VESSELS
Dutch West Indies Merchant Vessels. Date: early 17th century

Blue Chaise Longe
Oil painting of a grand interior. The variations of light in a fine interior have attracted artists and tested their skill since the Interior genre was invented by the Dutch painters in

A man dressed as Charles II, or at least somebody who looks very like him. Date: c. 1910
A man dressed as Charles II, or at least somebody who looks very like him. Date: c.1910

Plans and sections of a Maltese Galley. Date: late 17th century

Plan diagrams of a Maltese Galley. Date: 17th Century

Sydenham Wells
Medicinal springs found in Sydenham in the seventeenth century, attracted people to the area when Sydenham was still in Kent. Date: 1875

London coffee house
A London coffee house. 17th century

Seventeenth century Horn Book, teaching aid, with the letters of the alphabet and two prayers. 17th century

17th and 18th century balusters

Paget stump work
Page from The Sketch featuring two examples of stump-work - raised needlework and embroidery pictures - done for the Paget family

Ageratum. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Engraving

Aconitum. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Engraving

Attack on Whig mug-house
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom

A Royal Yacht of 1674 by G. H. Davis
A diagrammatic reconstruction painting of a royal yacht owned by King Charles II, one of two presented to him by the Dutch when he was restored to the throne

Castration / C17Th
A patient is pinned down and involuntarily castrated

Eugene of Savoy Carignan (1663-1736), called Prince Eugene. French political and military service in Austria. Highlighted in the struggle for the liberation of Vienna from the Turks

WW1 - British hospital ship Anglia sinks, November 17th 1915
WW1 - HMHS Anglia was a British steam ship requisitioned for use as a hospital ship during the First World War. On 17th November 1915, Anglia was returning from Calais to Dover

GOYEN, Jan Van (1596-1656). Dutchman painter. Outskirts of a village with travelers, 1630. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

KOKOLJA, Tripo (1661-1713). Montenegrian painter. Statue. Perast. Republic of Montenegro

Clock Tower. Year 1602. Kotor. Republic of Montenegro

Edouard Manet (1832-1883). Boy with a sword, 1861
Edouard Manet (1832-1883). French Impressionist painter. Boy with a sword, 1861. Oil on Canvas. Metropolitan Museum of New York. United States

Ageratum. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Colored engraving

Aconitum. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Colored engraving

Thora Valdensium. Seventeenth-century engraving in Bibliotheca Pharmaceutica-Medica by J. Jacobi Mangeti. Published in Genoa. Italy. Engraving

Columnade of St. Peters Square of Vatican. Built by Bernini
Baroque Art. Seat of San Peter (San Pietro) of the Vatican. Built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Detail of columnade and sculptures of differents saints (1657). Night view. City of the Vatican

Rome. Seat of St Peter (San Pietro). City of the Vatican
Baroque Art. St Peters square at the Vatican. Built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Detail columns, and sculptures of differents saints. Vatican City State. Holy See

Zurbaran, Francisco de (1598-1664). Spanish painter. Saint Andrew, c. 1635-1640. Detail. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

GRECO, DomE?nikos TheotokU?pulos, called El (1541-1614). Ago
RENAISSANCE ART. SPAIN. GRECO, DomE?nikos TheotokU?pulos, called El (Candia, 1541-Toledo, 1614). Cretan painter, representative of the last phase of Mannerism. Agony in the garden, h. 1610-1612

Gerard Reynst, 2nd Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Gerard (Gerrit) Reynst (circa 1558-1615) - Dutch merchant and 2nd Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Date: circa 1614

James Baron Forbes
JAMES OCHONCAR, seventeenth baron FORBES Scottish military commander Date: 1765 - 1843

French Warship 1666
Un navire royal - a vessel of the French kings fleet Date: 1666

C17 Maltese Galley
A Maltese galley running before the wind Date: end of 17th century

Alexander Henderson - Presbyterian divine, and diplomat
Alexander Henderson (1583-1646) - Scottish Presbyterian divine, theologian, and an important ecclesiastical statesman of his period. He was a chaplain to King Charles I and also served as a diplomat

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