Swan Collection (page 11)

Swan Inn, Southdown Brewery, Sussex
The Swan Inn, run by B H Hillman for the Southdown Brewery, somewhere in Sussex. A man stands outside, looking very much tempted to go in

Encounter between a dog and two swans
An intrepid little dog is seen off by two swans, who would rather not share their riverbank with him

Studies of swans in various attitudes

Pelly Football team, Saskatchewan, Canada, winners of the Swan Cup, 1913

Stratford-Upon-Avon
The River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace and sometime home of William Shakespeare and the home today of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Town Birds or My Lady of St. James s: An Idyll of the Park
An 18th century lady feeding a swan

Swan and a village pond
A painting of a swan by Malcolm Greensmith is set into the border framing an English country village pond in the bright spring light

The Old Swan, Chelsea, 1873
Engraving showing the Old Swan Inn, Chelsea, London, seen from the River Thames in 1873

Monkeys / Capuchins / Swan
BROWN CAPUCHINS CEBUS FATUELLUS Two monkeys sitting on the branch of a tree

Ant-Eater / Cuthbert Swan
The great ant-eater, eating ants (myrmecophaga jubata)

Animals / Chamois / Swan
Chamois up a mountain (rupicapra tragus)

Springbok / Cuthbert Swan
Springboks on the plains of South Africa (gazella euchore)

Cygnus into Swan
Cygnus, son of Poseidon, cannot be slain by a weapon, but Achilles crushes him with his foot, whereupon his father changes him into a swan

Mauretania
The Mauretania, built in 1906 at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the time, she was the largest liner in the world at 32, 000 gross tons

Lady Queen Anne
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, she sits in the sun, as fair as a lily, as white as a swan; I send you three letters, so pray you read one

Staites patent electric light apparatus
Engraving of Edward Staites patent electric light apparatus, exhibited at the Hanover Square Rooms, London in 1848. The light used a weight-driven mechanism

Phaetons Sisters
Mourning their brother Phaeton, Phaetusa, Lampetia and Lampetusa are changed into poplar trees, while his friend Cygnus is turned into a swan

Swan / Glass Design / Jugend
The first of two designs for stained glass depicting swans in the water. (Cygnus olor)

Bears / Cuthbert Swan
A couple of brown bears (ursus arctos)

Vampire Bats / Swan
Vampire bats in flight (desmodus rufus)

Badger / Swan / Wild Beasts
(meles taxus)

Gorilla / Cuthbert Swan
An angry male gorilla (anthropopithecus gorilla)

Paris Exhib Horticulture
View of the Palaces of Horticulture from across the river

Hair Dryer / Swan 1939
An electric hair dryer

Boy Sailing a Boat
A happy boy in a peaked cap sailing his toy boat near a swan on a boating lake in London, perhaps the Serpentine

Children Boating W Mama
The son of the family punts his mother and his sisters on the river

Marie Corelli / Gondola
MARIE CORELLI English novelist in her gondola The Dream on the River Avon

Swan Etc Star Map
Lizard, swan, lyre, fox and goose star constellation

Annies Swan / Cig Card
ANNIEs SWAN (Mrs Burnett Smith) Scottish writer in 1936

Cruikshank Banquet
June - The unlicensed Victuallers Dinner Gentlemen tuck into a wide array of dishes including peacock, magpie and dolphin

Game / Shadow Play C1890
Three girls play at shadows : the eldest sister makes the shape of a swan with her hands

Lohengrin Restores Godf
Lohengrin transforms the swan that pulls his boat into Elsas brother Godfrey : from now on he ll make do with a Holy Dove

Lohengrin Frights Fred
Elsas honour is saved when the Knight of the Swan - Lohengrin, no less - defeats the evil Friedrich in single combat : they fall in love, inevitably

SWAN & EDGAR 1883
Advertisement for Swan & Edgar, London

Food for Monks
Food is brought to the monastery door - a deer, a swan, a basket of fish and lots of game

Knight of the Swan
The Knight of the Swan comes to the rescue of the Princess of Cleves

Shop Windows Smashed
The windows of Swan & Edgar Ltd smashed by suffragettes

Racial / White Swan / Sioux
White Swan: Chief of the Lower Yanktonas Sioux

Damayanti with Swan
In return for not being caught by king Nala, a swan sings the kings praises to Damayanti, a princess who was reputedly the most beautiful woman in the world

Swan in Laboratory
sir JOSEPH WILSON SWAN chemist and electrician who developed a primitive electric light (1860), invented the dry photographic plate, and other important developments

Nala, Damayanti & Swan
A swan, grateful for being spared by prince NALA, tells DAMAYANTI how handsome he is. This leads to their marriage, though also to a succession of crises and adventures

Edward Shoots Swans
Edward, prince of Wales, that great sportsman, enjoys a fine day out shooting wild swan in Sweden

Hyginus / Olor
OLOR the swan

Bewicks, Blackneckedswan
BEWICKs SWAN (Cygnus bewicki) BLACK-NECKED SWAN (Cygnus nigricollis)

Bathers and Swan 19C
Bathers surprised by a swan is the title of this charming picture, but I dare say the swan was equally surprised by the bathers

Bewicks Swan
BEWICKs SWAN (Cygnus Bewickii)

Whooper Swan (Morris)
WHOOPER SWAN (Cygnus musicus)

Flower Stall 1939
A lady sells flowers to a gentleman in a London road 2

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