Villeneuve Collection

London Life front cover 1966
Front cover of London Life magazine, the short-lived magazine which documented and encapsulated swinging sixties London, featuring Twiggy photographed with Justin de Villeneuve

Palm-wine tapper climbing a palm tree, Senegambia
Naked palm-wine tapper climbing a date palm using a rope to collect a gourd full of sap, Senegambia, 18th century. A man gives instruction to the tapper. A negro ascending a palm tree for its wine

Chateau de Chillon, south of Veytaux, Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Vintage 19th century photograph: Chateau de Chillon. Chillon Castle is an island castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the canton of Vaud

Womans hairstyle and jewelry, Senegambia, 18th century
Womans braided hairstyle and jewelry, Senegambia, 18th century. Headress and ornaments of the negro women. Coiffure des negresses. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves l Afrique, Paris, 1814

Moorish grisgris, water bottle and pouch, Senegal
String of gris-girs, leather water bottle and pouch made by the Moors, Senegal, 18th century. Grisgris, water bottle and pouch. Collier de gris-gris, outre des Maures, giberne

Mandinka man playing a balafon with sticks
Mandinka man playing a balafon or gourd xylophone with sticks. In the background, men sit outside a hut or granary near a river. A negro playing on the balafo

King Sandaineh of Saloum, Senegambia, 18th century
King Sandaineh of Saloum, seated on a couch of reeds, Wolof or Jolof Empire, Senegambia, 18th century. In gold crown, cotton tunic, smoking a tobacco pipe. Scimitar and saddle on the walls

A floating bamboo bridge over the Senegal River
Man and donkeys and other porters with sacks on their heads cross a floating bamboo bridge over the Senegal River. View of a a bridge over the Ba-Fing or Black River

Metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century
Forged metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century. Horses bit, spade and napha or portfolio. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves l Afrique, Paris, 1814

Man weaving cotton on a loom, Senegambia, 18th century. He sits with his legs in a pit, with the warp tied to a large rock, under a mat shade. A weaver. Tisserand negre

Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, Senegal
Two armed Mandinka slatees (slave merchants) guard a coffle of six enslaved men, each wearing a heavy wooden neck collar supported by the man in front. Senegal, West Africa, 1800s

Woman of Senegambia beating cotton, 18th century. She beats the raw cotton instead of carding it. She sits on a wooden bench in front of a thatched hut

Blacksmith or goldsmith at work, Senegambia, 18th century. He works unders thatched hut with tools including fire, anvil, hammer, pincers and bellows. Orfevre ou Forgeron Negre. A goldsmith

View of a Fuli town and plantations, Senegambia
View of a Fuli or Fula town and plantations, Senegambia, 18th century. Circular walled village of the Fuli people. With cattle and guard house at left, rows of huts in centre

Women of Senegambia washing themselves, 18th century
Women of Senegambia washing themselves with water from a basin, 18th century.. One carries a baby on her back. Negro women washing themselves

Leon Achard as Larifla in La Morale en Action, 1845
Leon Achard as Larifla in La Morale en Action by Jaime and Villeneuve, Theatre du Gymnase Dramatique, 1845. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollets

Villeneuve as Calas in the play Calas by Victor
French actor Villeneuve as Calas in the play Calas by Victor Ducange at the Theatre de l Ambigu, 1819. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malos Almanach des Spectacles par K. Y

Villeneuve - Hotel Byron - Switzerland, Vaud Date: circa 1909

VUILLARD, Edouard (1868-1940). Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ࠖ illeneuve-sur-Yonne chez les Natanson. 1898. Symbolism. Les Nabis. Painting. FRANCE. Albi. Toulouse-Lautrec Museum

Gandhi in Switzerland
MAHATMA GANDHI with the French writer Romain Rolland at Villeneuve, near Montreux, Switzerland in 1932. Date: 1869 - 1948

Petion De Villeneuve
JEROME PETION de VILLENEUVE French statesman of the Revolution and one of its many victims. Date: 1756 - 1794

Clement De Villeneuve
CLEMENT LOUIS HERON de VILLENEUVE, marquis de Vence French military commander Date: EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Laisne De Villeneuve
LAISNE DE VILLENEUVE French statesman, deputy elected in 1817 Date: CIRCA 1817

Gateway to the Fort Saint Andre - Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France Date: circa 1910s

Switzerland - Villeneuve, Lac Leman (Lake Geneva) - a steamer about to embark on a lake crossing Date: circa 1895

Demo On-Line
The inhabitants of Villeneuve- le-roi halt the Sud-Express, by way of demonstrating to be given a station of their own by the railway company

Trafalgar / French Loss
The sinking of Admiral Villeneuves flagship

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