Skin Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 337 pictures in our Skin collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
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Variety Theatre, Monte Saldo
English born Monte Saldo 1879 - 1949 (real name A. M. Woolaston). Strong-man, Gymnast and also an artists' model. Here he is photographed in various statuesque classical poses as well as in the more traditional strong-man guise, complete with the obligatory off the shoulder leopard skin number.
© Mary Evans Picture Library
1879, 1949, Classical, English, Gymnast, Historical, History, Leopard, Model, Monte, Poses, Saldo, Shoulder, Skin, Statuesque, Strong Man, Variety, Woolaston
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Chad - Cupping - Indigenous medicinal practise
Chad, Central Africa - Cupping - Indigenous medicinal practise. Cupping therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin; practitioners believe this mobilises blood flow in order to promote healing. Suction is created using heat (fire), mechanical devices or the use of a tube or horn (as shown on this postcard). Date: circa 1930s
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
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(The Morning After of a Faun) 'Le Lendemain d'un Faune' (or
(The Morning After of a Faun) 'Le Lendemain d'un Faune' (or, 'What an Afternoon') - The Great success of the new ballet 'L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune' in which the faun, failing to abduct the nymph herself, has to be content with her wrap, has suggested a sequel - wherein M. Nijinsky is made to account for his theft in the usual way. The Policeman is calling on a bad line (to his Chief) who can't quite understand whether he is saying 'Faune' or 'Phone' !!! Date: 1913
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
