Sicilian Collection (page 3)

John Bull coming to the aid of Victims of Messina Earthquake
John Bull coming to the aid of the personification of Italy (Italia Turrita) following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 at Messina, Sicily

Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Panoramic view including the port Date: circa 1930s

Sicily, Italy - ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Selinunte
Sicily, Italy - ruins of the Temple of Apollo (Temple G ) at Selinunte Date: circa 1920s

Taormina, Sicily, Italy - King Edward VII at the Grand Hotel S. Domenico (walking in The Cloister) Date: 1907

Sicily, Italy - Messina - Monumento ai Caduti - in the Piazza " Unione Europea" (Municipio) - Monument to Italian soldiers of WWI, erected in 1936. Date: 1941

Sicilian amber containing two spiders which date from the Oligocene period about 30 million years old. Fig. 36 from Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Sicilian amber carving
An ancient artifact of Sicilian amber, a crudely carved talisman. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule Fig.24

ITALY. SICILY. SYRACUSE. Syracuse. Underground passages of Eurialo Castle (402-397 BC). Greek art. Architecture

Benedictine Convent at Monreale, Italy
Benedictine Convent at Monreale, Sicily, Italy. A fine example of cloister architecture with Gothic arches and thin patterned columns

Italian Rustic Types - Southern Italy / Sicily Date: circa 1910

Sicilian Carriage - Sicily, Italy
Decorated (and fully occupied!) Sicilian Carriage - Palermo, Sicily, Italy Date: circa 1903

Catania, Via Etnea and Statue of Garibaldi
Catania, Sicily, Italy - Via Etnea (the road north to Zafferana Etnea) and a Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi Date: 1930s

Messina, Italy - Corso Victorrio Emanuele II
Messina, Italy - Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the Harbour and the waterfront Date: 1905

Messina, Italy - Woman in Sicilian Costume sitting sidesaddle on a donkey Date: 1908

Taormina, Sicily, Italy Date: circa 1910s

Sicilian Bagpipes Player - A Zampognaro
A Sicilian Zampognaro or pipe-player, holding his massive set of Sicilian bagpipes. Date: circa 1910s

Rosolino Pilo
The Sicilian mafia bandit, Rosolino Pilo. 19th Century

Picking grapes
Young sicilian lady picking grapes ready to make into wine

Italy - Milazzo, Sicily

Italy - Sicilian Donkey Wagon (Carro)
Italy - A beautifully decorated Sicilian Donkey Wagon (Carro) with a load of children!

Italy - Palermo, Sicily - Grand Hotel Villa Igiea - now part of the Hilton chain Date: 1905

Italy - Ragusa, Sicily - Cattedrale San Giovanni Battista

Italy - Messina, Sicily. Panoramic view from the Sea. The city was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake and associated tsunami on the morning of December 28, 1908, killing about 60

Italy - Syracuse, Sicily - the small port. Famous for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture and association to Archimedes

Italy - Canicatti, Sicily - Military Headquarters

Bellini, Vincenzo 1801 - 1835
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini. Sicilian opera composer and the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera

Sicilian Locals milking a goat
A Sicilian couple milk their goat

Egypt / Damietta
Damietta town and Oschamma mosque in the Dumyat province. Of commercial and strategic importance in the Middle Ages, Dumyat was pillaged by the Byzantines & Sicilian Normans

Sicilian Children
The children of Palermo welcome the intervention of Garibaldi in the popular insurrection against the Neapolitan rule

Fighting in Catania
Giuseppina di Barcelona, Sicilian heroine who took part in the fierce fighting at Catania, manning (?) a cannon against the Neapolitans. (We have an engraving of this)

Hunting Breakfast
Garibaldis men hunt their breakfast in a Sicilian village

Giuseppina Mans Gun
Giuseppina di Barcelona, Sicilian heroine who took part in the fierce fighting at Catania, mans (?) a cannon against the Neapolitans. (We also have a portrait of her)

Santa Lucia
SANTA LUCIA di Siragusa Sicilian saint and martyr

Sicilian Vespers 1282
SICILIAN VESPERS The French at the court of Charles d Anjou, in Sicily, are massacred, due to the tyranny and brutality of the French

Sicilian Carriage
A family party in their carriage at Palermo, Sicily

Naval battle at Siragusa, Sicily
Naval battle in the harbour of Siragusa (Syracuse), Sicily, during the Peloponnesian War

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