Spear Gallery

Ancient Roman costume

Ancient Roman costume from the time of the late Roman Republic -- warriors, legionnaires (infantry soldiers), a cavalryman, a centurion, an emperor in purple (red), an ensign bearer, a standard bearer, gladiators (a murmillo, a thraex, a hoplomachus, a retiarius), personifications of Roma, and Horus.
147-30 BCE

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Pauline Mailhac - Austrian Soprano - Role of Brunhilde

Pauline Mailhac (1858-1946) - Austrian Operatic Soprano. Photograph of her farewell performance in Wagner's Gotterdammerung on 15th June 1901 in the role of Brunhilde - Karlsruhe Opera. Date: 1901

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Piltdown Man reconstructed, 1912

Piltdown Man, as imagined by Illustrated London News special artist Amedee Forestier, soon after the discovery of the bones was made public in 1912. Believed to be the missing link between man and ape, the spectacular discovery was revealed to be an elaborate hoax in 1953

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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