Symbolic Collection (page 4)

French postwar poster, finance for reconstruction
French postwar poster, design by Rene Lelong, Credit National, finance for reconstruction after the First World War. circa 1920

Patriotic postcard, England as a butterfly, WW1
Patriotic postcard, England as a butterfly, First World War. 1914-1918

Mutter Nacht by Fidus
circa 1910s

Der Schleppentreter by Fidus
circa 1910s

Giordano Bruno - Italian cosmological theorist by Fidus
circa 1910s

We Pray for You - Patriotic German Postcard - WW1 era
We Pray for You - A touching patriotic German Postcard - WW1 era, send from a wife to her husband at the front. circa 1916

Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David (c. 1460-1523)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David (c.1460-1523) - painting on wood after 1509 Date: circa 1510

Osiride pillar of pharaoh Sesostris I. Egypt
Egyptian Art. Osiride pillar of pharaoh Sesostris I, second king of 12th Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. Ruled between 1956 and 1910 BC. Luxor Museum. Egypt

Ceres - Demeter Crane 1889
Ceres (Demeter), a symbol of harvest time. Date: 1906

Front cover, La Baionnette, WW1
Front cover design, La Baionnette, an issue focusing on the Americans, showing a symbolic image of the American war machine, with soldiers pouring out of it to support the Allied cause. Date: 1918

RELIGION / EGYPT / MUT
The supreme mother-god of Thebes, and consequently the symbolic mother the Pharaoh

SACRED OAK DESTROYED
Charlemagne destroys the sacred oak of the Saxons, a symbolic act to show the populace that henceforth they are subject to the Holy Roman Empire Date: circa 785

Wars of the roses: nobles picking roses to show allegiances
In the Temple Gardens, London, opposing nobles pick red or white roses according as they favour the party of Lancaster or York. Date: circa 1455

Symbolic cutting of pigtails in Shanghai, China
At Shanghai, 500 young men voluntarily relinquish their traditional pigtails, symbolising the new spirit of China. Date: 1911

Ghent (Gand), Belgium - Monument to Jan Frans Willems (1793-1846) by sculptor Isidoor de Rudder (1899) - Flemish writer and father of the Flemish movement. Date: circa 1900s

New Zealand - Ancient Carved Maori Gateway or Waharoa - 20ft high - Te Koutou Pah (or Pa - a village of more commonly, a hill fort), Rotorua - now in the Auckland Museum. Date: 1920s

Patriotic WW1-era postcard - Stars and Stripes Flag - USA Date: 1917

Enormous cotton tree, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Cotton tree with enormous buttresses, historic symbol of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1908

Hammer and Sickle statue, Moscow, Russia
Symbolic statue of a couple holding the symbolic Hammer and Sickle, silhouetted against a clouded sky in Moscow, Russia. circa 1968

Fairies of the Garden - The Scotch Thistle. 1903

Unconquerable by Arthur Rackham - Defiant Belgium
Arthur Rackhams Unconquerable - a personification of Belgium stands defient with the tatters of a Belgian flag - symbolising the brave resistance of Belgium to the invading German army in August

Resurgam by Frank Dicksee
Symbolic painting by Frank Dicksee R.A. showing an armoured figure with the sword of justice rising above the flames of German barbarism during the First World War

Recruitment poster, Wake Up America!, WW1
First World War recruitment poster, Wake Up America! Civilization Calls Every Man Woman and Child! Showing an allegorical female figure in a stars and stripes costume

Franco-Italian Convention of 1902
French President Emile Francois Loubet (1838-1929) and the King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy - a allegorical card showing the increased unity of purpose of the two nations

White dove and pink roses on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

WW1 - German Propaganda - A Call to Arms Like Thunder. Date: 1914

Bailey Guard Gate, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bailey (Baillie) Guard Gate, main entrance to the British Residency in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, showing damaged caused during the Mutiny of 1857. Date: circa 1910

Matene Te Nga, Chief of the Ngati Maru Tribe, New Zealand
Matene Te Nga, Chief of the Ngati Maru Maori Tribe with tattooed face, New Zealand. Date: circa 1900

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). French painter. Oath of the
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). French painter. Neoclassical. Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Oil on Canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France

Egyptian art. Tutankhamuns pectoral. Dynasty 18. 1332-1322
Egyptian art. Tutankhamuns pectoral with solar and lunar emblem and Scarab. Dynasty 18. 1332-1322 BC. New Kingdom of Egypt. Egyptian Museum Cairo

Menorah. Sephardic Museum. Toledo. Spain
Seven-branched candelabrum or menorah. Sephardic Museum. Synagogue of El Transito. Toledo. Spain

Buddha statue with dharmachakra mudra gesture. 2nd-3rd centu
Buddha statue with dharmachakra mudra gesture. Gandhara. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Spain. Madrid. Fountain of Cibeles. Monument designed by Ventura Rodr?=?guez between 177-1782. Neo-classical

Caricature of Queen Victoria as a shepherdess with lambs and an animated pot of mint sauce. In the matter of lambs, Her Majesty sings, we mean to do without them

Andreae Georg Beck
ANDREAE GEORG BECK German scholar, with some of his books and a large winged insect, evidently symbolic of something. Date: 1726 - 1774

Cartoon, The Mad Dog of Europe, WW1
Cartoon, America should help to catch the mad dog of Europe (a quotation from the New York Press). Showing an allegorical America driving out Kaiser Wilhelm II. Date: 1915

Maison Lyons Corner House - Marble Arch, London - Interior
Quote from The Kalevala (Kalewala) a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lonnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology

Cartoon, The Kaisers dream, WW1
Cartoon, The Kaisers dream (or nightmare) after losing at Verdun -- a ginger-haired angel holding a rabbit. Date: 1916

Illustration, A Song of the English, Bombay
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Bombay -- Royal and Dower-Royal, I the Queen

Masonic Seal. French Rite. Budapest, 19th century. Metals. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 du Grand Orient de France et de la Franc-Ma篮 nerie Europ饮 ne

Masonic tools. Drawing. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 du Grand Orient de France et de la Franc-Ma篮 nerie Europ饮 ne

You Dirty Boy, Kaiser Wilhelm II cartoon, WW1
A cartoon depicting Europe as a sensible woman with sleeves rolled up, washing the ears of Kaiser Wilhelm II with a washing bowl labelled, Denunciation of Humanity

Lord Great Chamberlain presenting spurs to the King
The Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, presenting the spurs to King Edward VII (simply by touching his heels)

Alexander the Great: the marriage of Europe and Asia
Alexander the Great celebrates the symbolic union of Europe with Asia with a five day wedding feast, in which he and 92 of his generals wed Persian noblewomen

The Graphic Royal Wedding Number 1923
Front cover of The Graphic magazines Royal Wedding Number, celebrating the marriage of Prince Albert, Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923

Cartoon, The Glorious Twelfth -- the Bird to be brought down this August being not a Grouse but a Mad Eagle. A comment on the warmongering Kaiser Wilhelm II

Anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Serbia, showing refugees and soldiers on the move in Serbia during the First World War

Poppy superimposed on mine explosion, WW1
A bright red poppy superimposed on the image of a mine explosion on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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