Venice Collection (#29)

Italy Venices Marco
The waterfront at the piazza San Marco in the eighteenth century

Italy Venice Rialto
Ponte di Rialto

Milk in Venice
How milk is delivered to your door if you live in Venice

Italy Venice Canale
The Canale Grande en fete - fireworks and gondolas

Venice Leaning Tower
Leaning tower of San Stefano, Venezia, Italy. Due to the instability of Venices foundations, there are many leaning towers in the city

Venice Fabric Trade
Venice becomes Europes leading trading centre for fabrics

Pietro Gradenigo
PIETRO GRADENIGO Doge of Venice 1289 - 1311

Tourists in a Gondola
American honeymooners, sightseeing Venice from their gondola, consult their Baedeker to check which buildings they should admire

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

Aerial Attack on Venice
The Austrians seek to subdue the independence-loving Venetians by aerial bombardment, using balloons - one of the first instances of aerial warfare

Marghera Bombarded
The fortress of Marghera, near Venice, is bombarded by the French

Uprising at Venice
Submitting to popular demand, the Austrians release liberal leaders Daniele Manin and Niccolo Tommaseo from prison

Henry Irving as Shylock
SIR HENRY IRVING Eminent English actor in the roll of Shylock in Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice

Ellen Terry as Portia
ELLEN TERRY English actress in the roll of Portia in Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice

French at Venice - 2
Louis XII leads the invading French army to victory against the Venetians at Agnadella (Rivolta)

Last Doge of Venice
Lodovico Manin, the 120th and last doge of Venice, collapses after swearing allegiance to Austria, a consequence of Napoleons conquest of northern Italy

French at Venice
The French under Louis XII defeat the Venetians at Agnadella (Rivolta). The guns stand idle as the foot- soldiers and cavalry separately collide

Racial / Italy / Venetians
A Venetian man and woman, with Venice in the background

Venice and Genoa
Naval commander Vettor Pisani is arrested by the Venetian authorities for his failure to repel the attack by the Genoa fleet : but he will be freed and with Zeno save Venice

Venice and Genoa - 2
Naval commanders Vettor Pisani and Carlo Zeno devise plans to thwart the tactics of the Genoa fleet which threatens Venice

Merchant Venice / Portia
Act I, Scene ii Portia and Nerissa

Venice / Distant C1700
Venice: distant view across the water

Venice / Rialto Bridge
Venice: the Rialto Bridge

Venice / General 1890S
Venice: general view across the water to the church of San Giorgio Maggiore

Venice / St Mark Columns
Venice: Piazza San Marco with Columns

Venice / Grand Hotel 1891
Venice: the Grand Hotel (Palazzo Ferro)

Venice / Grand Canal
" Sailing Boats" Grand Canal Venice

Costume / Men / Doge / Venice
A follower of the Doge of Venice, in red velvet hat, and red cloak with ermine trimming Date: 9th century

Demo at Padova
Demonstration at Padova (Padua) in favour of Venice joining the united Italy

Venice Battery 2
Interior of the Austrian floating battery at Venice

Precautions in Venice
As the threat from the nationalists intensifies, the Austrians in Venice take precautions to prevent any patriotic demonstration by the populace

Venice Prisoners
Political prisoners are transferred from the prison of San-Severo to that of Gradisca

Venetian Refugees
As fighting intensifies between the Italians and the Austrians, inhabitants of Venice flee the city along the river Po, despite Austrian sentinels

Venice Joins Italy
Vittorio Emanuele II welcomes Venice into his newly united Italy

Reinforcements at Venice
Recruits from Dalmata arrive in Venice to reinforce the Austrians

Medals for Venetians
Presentation of medals to Venetian troops

Plebiscite in Venicee
Austria permits a plebiscite in Venice : the Venetians vote in favour of union with Italy by 674, 426 votes to 69

Venice Battery
Austrian floating battery at Venice

German Warehouse, Venice
A German warehouse in Venice

Marco Polos House - 2
MARCO POLOs home, Venice

Social Scenes / Italy / 20Th
NIGHTLIFE A fashionable group spend the evening by the water with their friends

Sebastiano Venier
SEBASTIANO VENIER The subject of this engraving is not identified, but he closely resembles Sebastiano Venier, Doge of Venice and the dating is right (died 1580)

Granduchessa, Venice
Unidentified granduchessa of Venice, possibly the wife of Sebastiano Venier, Doge of Venice

A GONDOLA
A gondola makes its way through the waterways of Venice

Couple in Gondola / 1907
Couple in a gondola on the canals of Venice

George Sand & De Musset
ALFRED DE MUSSET with GEORGE SAND at Venice : he was neither the first nor the last of her many lovers

Venetian man with gondola
A Venetian man on the lookout for some tourists to travel in his gondola

Shakespeare illustrated title page
An illustrated title page, showing vignette scenes from the Comedies, with Shakespeare himself above and below in youth and old age

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