Swans Gallery

The Pierre in New York City, USA

View on The Pierre, a luxury hotel located at 2 East 61st Street at the intersection of Fifth Avenue in New York City from the nearby Central Park with swans swimming on a stream, USA. The hotel was opened in 1930 and is owned today by Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces. Date: circa 1930

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Thames watermen at work during Swan Upping

Thames watermen at work during Swan Upping, when cygnets need to be rounded up on the Upper Thames River and distinguishing marks cut on their bills, to show that they are the property of the Crown and the Dyers and Vintners Companies of the City of London. Needless to say, it is difficult and often rather wet work. Date: 1922

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Men's costumes of the mid 15th century

Men's costumes of the mid 15th century. Charles the Bold, Karl I der KǬhne, wearing a fur-lined coat over puff sleeved doublet. From a miniature in the titlepage of Froissart's Chronicles. B shows an angel and knight in armour with heraldic shields, and C the crests of the Count of Nassau and the Wheel of Mainz taken from a prayer book in the castle library of Aschaffenburg. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C.R. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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