Venetian Collection (page 10)

Bianca Cappello - 2
BIANCA CAPPELLO Venetian adventuress who became the wife of Francesco di Medici, duca di Toscania. Date: 1542 - 1587

The Amphibians, 1927 by Peter
A somewhat sybaritic seaside scene showing a young, fashionable men and women having fun at the Lido, buying fruit from a seller. Date: 1927

Old Venetian courtyard, Venice, Italy. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Sidelights of the Lido by Gilbert Rumbold
Artists impression of some aspects of life at the Lido in Venice during the 1920s, showing smart society attending fashion fetes, wearing period costume designed by Brunelleschi

Pyjama fashion at the Lido
A cheery group of models at a pyjama and bathing-dress parade of Paris and Italian fashion houses held at the Venetian Lido in 1927. Date: 1927

Venice, Italy - Convent of S. Fancesco
San Francesco del Deserto is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, with a surface of some 4 hectares. It is located between Sant Erasmo and Burano. It houses a minorites convent, pictured here

Feeding pigeons before St Marks Basilica, Venice, Italy Date: circa 1910s

Metropolitan Police Information Room, London
General view of the Metropolitan Police Information Room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers busy taking calls. In the foreground are the Inspectors and Sergeants positions. Date: May 1974

Canale d Ognisanti, Venice, Italy
The left side (bank) of the Canale d Ognisanti, Venice, Italy Date: circa 1910s

Gondola - Venice, Italy - out in the Venetian Lagoon. The card also features an lovely embossed version of the symbol of the city. Date: circa 1910s

Palazzo Contarini Fasan. According to the well-known Venetian legend, the building is also called Casa di Desdemona, who was killed by her jealous husband Othello. Date: circa 1910s

Melodie, by Brunelleschi
Stylised illustration showing a couple in eighteenth century costume in a fantasy landscape. The woman, wearing a pink dress, plays a lute and a gondola floats nearby. Date: 1927

Venetian Dress
A beautiful traditional Venetian dress, embroidered brocade worn with a becoming lace shawl. Date: 18th century

A Venetian Ball - Costumes
Le Bal Venetian A woman in a black and red dress having her hand kissed by a male companion as she walks beneath a red arch. Date: 1923

Panorama of Venice looking toward St. Markss and the Campagnile Date: circa 1910s

Kotor, Montenegro - Cathedral of Saint Tryphon
Kotor (Cattaro), Montenegro - The Cathedral of Saint Tryphon. Built in the 12th century and then rebuilt following an earthquake in 1667 (hence the disparity in design between the two towers)

Venetian Carnival Dress
Venetian society in San Marco Square, Venice, Italy, wearing Sardinian and Neapolitan traditional costumes during the famous Venice Carnival. Date: 15 March 1930

Venetian Ceremony
A Christian religious ceremony across a wooden stilted walkway towards St. Marks Cathedral, Venice, Italy. Date: 1930s

The San Giorgio dei Greci, Venice, Italy
The San Giorgio - A View from the Grand Canal The San Giorgio de Greci built sometime after 1538 by Sante Lombardi and Chiona was described as one of the most gracefully beautiful buildings in all

Zadar - Croatia - Porta Terraferma (" Kopnena vrata" - Landward Gate) Date: circa 1910s

Venetian Glass Galleries - Knightsbridge, London
The Venetian Glass Galleries - 81, Knightsbridge, London SW1 Date: circa 1915

Collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice
The dramatic results of the collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice, Italy on 14th July 1902 Date: 1902

Hvar, Croatia
The harbour at Hvar, Croatia on the Island of Hvar. A long and distinguished history as center for trade and culture in the Adriatic and an important naval base

Venetian Water Carriers
A couple of female water carriers, who carry their metal buckets over their shoulders with a wooden yoke, Venice, Italy. Date: 1870s

Venetian Costume
A lovely Italian girl wearing one of the heavily embroidered costumes of a district near Venice. Date: 1930s

Water Shrine close to Venice, Italy
A Scene in Venice A Water Shrine near Venice, Italy - a boat carries a family who bring offerings of flowers to place at the feet of the Madonna in the shrine

Croatia - Trogir - Kamerlengo Castle
View of Kamerlengo Castle/Fortress at Trogir, Croatia. Built by the Republic of Venice Date: circa 1906

Battle of Fornovo 1495
BATTLE OF FORNOVO Francisco de Gonzaga heads an army of Venetian and Mantuan troops against a much smaller French/Swiss force, who successfully repulse them Date: 6 July 1495

Racial / Italy / Doge C1600
A Venetian Doge and his wife Date: circa 1600

Various Views of Crete including a panoramic view of Jerapetra, the Venetian Fort at Spinalonga and the construction (and subsequent) use of a canal, built by French forces occupying Crete

Greece, Crete - Iraklion - Venetian Fountain

Greece, Crete - Iraklion - The Venetian fortress
Greece, Crete - Iraklion. The Venetian fortress of Rocca al Mare (1523-1540) guards the inner harbor

Nurse with equipment at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse wheeling an oxygen cylinder

Trogir - Venetian Gateways
Trogir, Croatia - Venetian Gateways, bearing the symbol of the Venetian lion above the lintel. The Kopnena Vrata (The Land Gate) on the left and the City Gate on the right

Perast - Montenegro
View of the attractive town of Perast, Montenegro. Venice owned the city between 1420 and 1797. Perast was part of the Venetian Albania

Two Islands near Perast, Montenegro
Two small islands near Perast, Montenegro: one is called St. George Island, and the other called Gospa od krpjela (Our Lady of the Rock), and each of them has a picturesque chapel

Union Workhouse, Stafford, Staffordshire
The Stafford Union workhouse, erected in 1837-8 on Marston Road, Stafford. The architect was Thomas Trubshaw who gave the main building an unusually elaborate design for its day

Venice - The Extreme outer border of Venice, marked by a small island and statue of the Virgin Mary. The distinctive Venetian skyline is visible in the background

Croatia - Split - Porto Argentea
The Porto Argentea. A carving of a winged Venetian lion sits above this fine gate in Split, Croatia. This was the eastern gate (the Silver Gate or Porta argentea) to the Palace of Diocletian

Croatia - Hvar
Croatia - Town of Hvar, on the Island of Hvar. A long and distinguished history as center for trade and culture in the Adriatic and an important naval base

Trogir, Croatia - Loggia alongside a courtyard. Trogir (Trau) is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia

Montenegro - Perast
View of the attractive town of Perast, Montenegro. Venice owned the city between 1420 and 1797. Perast was part of the Venetian Albania

Venetian Bowling Alley, c. 1876
Engraving showing the scene inside a Venetian bowling alley, during a slight dispute over a game of ten pin bowling, c.1876

On the Ponte della Paglia: Going to the Council
Engraving from a painting by H.Wallis, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, entitled On the Ponte della Paglia: Going to the Council

Venus Sailing Ship
The inventive folk on Venus have doubtless developed ingenious solutions for navigating their oceans : this sailing vessel has wooden sails like Venetian blinds

The Lady of the Gondola by Jean Gabriel Domergue
Illustration depicting a woman in Venetian costume sitting in a gondola

Bianca Cappello - 1
BIANCA CAPPELLO Venetian adventuress who became the wife of Francesco di Medici, duca di Toscania

Venetian Fishing Boat
Two-masted fishing boat used by the fishermen of Venice

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