Tragedy Collection (page 2)

An all-star cast presenting Shakepeares sublime tragedy, Romeo & Juliet. Date c1903

Titanic - fifteen minutes before she sank
A double page spread from the Illustrated London News showing an artists impression of the White Star Line passenger liner, RMS Titanic, fifteen minute before she sank beneath the waves

Titanic - Report and Timeline in the Sphere
Page from the Sphere with comments, reports and anecdotes relating to the sinking of the Titanic together with a timeline listing the events that eventually led the ship to sink

Titanic disaster - comment in The Tatler
Page from the Tatler, featuring a comment about the dreadful tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912, illustrated by a cartoon by Pog

Titanic - Danger Field of the Atlantic with routes through i
A diagram or map showing the dangerous area of the Atlantic Ocean indicating steamer routes that cut through fog and ice. It was here that the Titanic hit an iceberg on 15 April 1912

The Wreck of the Titanic - Survivors leave the Carpathia
705 survivors of the Titanic, brought home on board the Titanic have an emotional reunion with friends and relatives in New York. Date: 1912

The Wreck of the Titanic - Noted passengers - Sphere
Page from The Sphere reporting on the disaster of the sinking of White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic, featuring portraits of notable passengers including W. T. Stead, Mr and Mrs J. J

Canada - Newfoundland -ss Florizel at Icefields
Canada - Newfoundland - SS Florizel at Icefields - the crew boarding. A passenger liner, the Florizel was the flagship of the Bowring Brothers Red Cross Line of steamships

Loss of life in World War One - Postcard
A matronly woman looks at a newspaper board with the World War One Recruitment message: Kitchener Wants More Men and replies with the chilling response: " I ve buried four and want no more

The Babes in the Wood by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

The White Ship tragedy
William Adelin dies following the sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. As the only legitimate son of Henry I and heir to the throne of England

British Ballad, Sir Patrick Spens
SIR PATRICK SPENS. Popular British Ballad of Scottish origin. Sailor, Sir Patrick receives a Royal commission from the King of Scotland to bring home the Scottish queen Margaret

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Goose
Goose. (Corhurnus Mandeville - The Eminent Tragedian). Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), pioneering American female aviator, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler at the point during her attempt at flying around the world solo

Moonlight Romance
The first buss and the last bus - a back-to-earth tragedy. A couple kiss in the moonlight having floated away from the earth in a mist of romance

Wreath for Captain Scott
Allegorical picture by Fortunino Matania showing a wreath being laid at a simple memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who died

The cross erected to Captain Scott and his companions on Observation Hill. The picture was taken at the height of summer when the rocky summit was almost bare of snow

Captain Scott at the South Pole
Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912), British polar explorer pictured in his kit during his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole

The Praslin Tragedy
A floor plan and view of the front garden of the Hotel Sebastiani, Paris, where the Duchess of Praslin was found dead in her bedchamber in suspicious circumstances

Portrait of Princess Alice Maud Mary (1843-1878), Grand Duchess of Hesse, third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Tragedy Audience
THE EFFECTS OF TRAGEDY The audience reduced to tears one of a set of two

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