Symbolic Collection (page 2)

WW2 Birthday Card, A Convoy
A WW2 birthday greetings card, the illustration portrays a dog dressed in a Royal Navy sailor uniform, taking a black cat for a walk, symbolic of good fortune. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card, Blackout The Blues
A WW2 birthday greetings card, with imagery symbolic of good fortune including the presence of black cats and a horseshoe

WW2 Christmas Card, Good Luck
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with imagery symbolic of good fortune, the illustration shows some horseshoes nestled amongst some mistletoe and a Union Jack flag. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card, A Good Spotter
A WW2 birthday greetings card, a good spotter to bring you luck! The image shows a black cat symbolic of good fortune, that has climbed up the neck of a giraffe to act as a spotter with binoculars

Lewis Arundel or the Railroad of Life by Frank Fairlegh, illustrated by Phiz (Hablot K Browne) Date: 1848

A Pair of Love Birds, HMS Triumph sailor and his love Date: 19th century

Cartoon, Britannia and Kaiser Wilhelm II
Political cartoon, Britannia and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Cousins German, with jealous Marianne (France) looking on Date: 1891

Music sheet, Rule Britannia, as solo and chorus
Music sheet, patriotic song Rule Britannia, as solo and chorus, composed by Dr Arne, with musical notation Date: 19th century

Cartoon, Britannia, Her Empire and Foes Date: early 19th century

Ferdinand And Miranda
This painting depicts a later scene from William Shackespeare's The Tempest, in which Miranda and Ferdinand are sat playing chess in a coastal countryside

Hermes and Iris
A painting depiction of what might be the Greek Goddess, Iris, with her symbolic jug of water, and Hermes, with his flaming red hair and dagger

White Star Line, Royal and US Mail Steamers, cover design
White Star Line, Royal and US Mail Steamers, Ismay Imrie & Co, London and Liverpool, cover design

Checkmated, Love and Romance over the Chess Board

Roman tombstone with Christian iconography. Representation w
Early Christian Art. Italy. Early Christians. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography. Representation woman with a Chi Roho and a dove with olive branch (symbol of the soul of the dead)

Early Christians. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography
Early Christian Art. Italy. Early Christians. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography. The deceased along with a dove and olive branch (symbol of the soul of the dead)

Death depicted with a bow and arrow. Colored engraving

Book of the Dead. Fragment. Egypt
Fragment of a text of the Book of the Dead. Ink on papyrus. Around 1480 BC. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Amulet Amulets Ancient Egypt Art Budapest Ceramic
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Egyptian amulets
Group of Egyptian amulets. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Allegory of the French Revolution. French citizen blindfolded trying to take the liberty, equality and fraternity, which mocked by exposing him to trip over rocks, fall, or meet with death

Christmas card (front), Claridge's, London
Christmas card (front cover), Claridge's, London, with blue ribbon and embossed coat of arms. Date: 20th century

White flowers and a cross on an Easter card
White flowers and an ornate cross on a two-part Easter card, with cherub (left) and Paschal Lamb (right). Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Reckoning without their host, WW1
Cartoon, Reckoning without their host. Defeated at Verdun, Germany, Prussia and Death walk away despondently. A smiling French soldier in the background says they had everything planned

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil, Vide Milton, by James Gillray. A parody of a scene from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, showing Prime Minister William Pitt (left) as Death

Illustration, A Song of the English, Calcutta
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Calcutta -- Me the Sea-captain loved, the River built

An allegory about the peace negotiations at end of WW1
A rather biased allegorical illustration by Fortunino Matania showing Justice, with her foot on the prostrate giant of Germany, holding her sword in one hand and scales in another

Circe by Will Dyson
Cartoon by the Australian cartoonist and artist, Will Dyson (1880-1938). Dyson made his name on the Sydney Bulletin and then in London on the Daily Herald where his cartoons during the First World

Tomb of Queen Elizabeth I, Westminster Abbey
The tomb of Queen Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey, London

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Cibeles Square and Puerta de Alcala (Alcala Gate, 1939). FRANCE. Paris. Library of the National Conservatory of Arts and Works

Spain. Second Republic. Elections of 16th February 1936. Propaganda poster edited by the Generalitat of Catalonia (1937). SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, WW1
Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, with a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II with the words Louvain and Rheims (Reims) on his shoulders

Cartoon, The Harvest of War, WW1
Cartoon, The Harvest of War, showing a German general with his head bowed on a battlefield, while the ghosts of dead soldiers march past with agricultural implements

Hungarian poster, Farewell to Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Hungarian poster, Farewell to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, written by Karl Kraus, translated by Szini Gyula. Showing a man in revolutionary red clothes

Cartoon, first German victory, Moineville, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Their First Victory, showing a dead priest at Moineville, north-eastern France, on the frontier with Germany

Gould Bryan Brian Charles 1939 Uk Labour Socialist
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Stone statue, Die Wahrheit, Berlin, Germany
A stone statue entitled Die Wahrheit (Truth), one of two originals dating from 1748, in a museum in Berlin, Germany. The figure holds open a book and points to a page. Date: 2006

SHRUNKEN HEADS
Shrunken heads or Tsanta, prepared by the Jivaro tribes who believe that they hold magical powers and symbolic significance Date:

Concepts: reincarnation, an allegory
An allegory of reincarnation-the infant is reborn from the dead self. Date: 1907

CONFUCIUS (551 - 479 BC)
CONFUCIUS Chinese philosopher The symbolic death of a mysterious unicorn whose fate is linked with his Date: 551 - 479 BC

WW1 - Peace - We ve All Pulled Together. Date: circa 1918

The Lion of Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1920s

The Lion of St Mark s, Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1920s

When Love was Lost and Life was Vain: Pierrot Forlorn. In the Autumn of Youth: " Fallen Leaves". Date: 1912

Kitsch French Postcard with a representation of Charity. Date: circa 1910s

Representation of Charity - Money for a poor crippled boy
A moral postcard depicting Charity as two smartly-dressed young girls offer some coins to a poor, crippled young boy with crutches, sat at the side of the street. Date: 1909

Kitsch French Postcard with a representation of Hope. Date: circa 1910s

Hooge Crater CWGC Cemetery showing symbolic crater Date: 2016

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