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Dressing - Theatre 1910Showgirl at her dressing table, visited by an admirer carrying a bouquet of flowers. Date: 1910
Culture for working classesA philanthropic employer who paid his workforces expenses to an art exhibition hears how they visited the tea-gardens instead. Date: 19th century
SOCIAL / TOKYO TEA GARDENTea garden at Yedo (Tokyo) visited by diplomats of Lord Elgins mission to Japan Date: 1858
PSYCHE LOOKS AT EROSPsyche, visited by Eros after sundown, seeking to know what he looks like, spills hot oil from her lamp onto him, waking him, with sad consequences, though all ends happily enough
PRISON REFORM / J HOWARDJohn Howard (1726-1790), investigating the French penal system, is visited by an officer of the Prefecture Date: circa 1775-79
DANTES PARADISOSchematic plan of Paradise, visited by Dante Alighieri in company with Beatrice
WAITBORNE & MERMAID WAITBORNE & MERMAIDRichard Waitborne/Whitbourne at St.Johns Harbour visited by blue-haired sea monster Date: 1618
Apparitions: Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob MarleyThe miserly Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business colleague Marley. Date: 1835
Captain Beechey at Coral AtollCoral atoll (madreporic island) visited by Captain Beechey in the course of a survey expedition Date: 1835
Royal Air Force - Hunting Jet Provost T. 4 XP680Royal Air Force Hunting Jet Provost T.4 XP680 (msn PAC/W/18304) of The Macaws aerobatic team from the College of Air Warfare, based at Royal Air Force Manby
Seventeen students on the seventh Test Pilots? Course a?Seventeen students on the seventh Test Pilots? Course at the Empire Test Pilots? School, Farnborough, visited the factories of A.V. Roe & Co Ltd at Woodford and Chadderton on 2 November 1948
The Secretary of State for War, The Right Hon John Prof?The Secretary of State for War, The Right Hon John Profumo, OBE, MC, visited the Guided Weapons Division of English Electric Aviation Ltd, Stevenage, on Monday, 7 November 1960
Wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital wardA wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital ward that was originally a school. He is being visited by an elegant lady who is seated beside the bed.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)
Shepherds VisitedWhile watching their flocks at night, three shepherds are visited by an angel who tells them of the birth of Jesus
Prince Nguyen Phuc Canh of Cochin China (Vietnam). At the age of seven he visited France to sign an alliance between France and Vietnam (the Treaty of Versailles, 1787)
Map of Smith Sound and Greenland, 1875Engraving showing a map of Smith Sound and Greenland, as it was known in May 1875. Much of the map is erroneous or missing in detail
Ufos / Santos / BrazilMoyses Santos, of Belo Horizonte, is visited by six 1.2 metre aliens, who float clumsily round the room, bumping into furniture, then exit through the wall
Nigeria / Kano 1850Kano, from Mount Dala in Nigeria, West Africa, visited by Dr Heinrich Barth and sketched by him
Solomon & Sheba QueenSolomon, king of Israel, is visited by Nicaule, queen of Sheba : she is impressed by him, his temple and indeed by everything she sees : he is likewise impressed by her
Human-Looking AlienDuring the heyday of the American contactees, many of the aliens who visited Earth were quite human in their appearance, though wearing track suits and long hair
Cecil Calvert, first Lord BaltimoreCECIL CALVERT, first lord BALTIMORE (1606 - 1675) Colonial entrepreneur, thanks to his father became proprietor of Maryland, though he never visited there. Date: 1657
MARY READ (102+)MARY READ Resident of West Cowes, Isle of Wight, twice married, mother of eleven : she lived 102, perhaps 104 years, and visited Victoria at Osborne Date: 1749? - 1851
Saint GuthlacSAINT GUTHLAC Scenes from his life - he becomes a monk; he sails to Crowland; he builds his oratory; he is visited by king Aethelbald Date: 663 - 714
Las Casas and nativesBARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS Spanish historian and missionary, visited on his deathbed by Native Americans who valued his sympathy for them, unlike most Spanish. Date: 1474 - 1566
Hermit TemptedA hermit is visited in his cave by demons, one of whom takes on the semblance of a beautiful and friendly female - he is sorely tempted
James Ii / English / 1701JAMES II - King of England On his deathbed and in exile he is visited by King Louis XIV Date: 1633 - 1701
Cavour on DeathbedCAMILLO CAVOUR, Italian statesman, is visited on his deathbed by king Vittorio- Emanuele Date: 1810-1861
She Dreams of HimA girl dreams that she is visited by her Beloved Date: 1807
Edward Morel in PrisonFrench-born E.D. Morel, Congo activist against colonial exploitation, in Pentonville prison for anti- war activities, is visited by the ghost of Jaures Date: 1917
Jeanne D arc in PrisonJOAN OF ARC in prison visited by antipathetic clergyman and scribe. Date: 1412? 1431
Letchworth FoundryA steel foundry at Letchworth is visited by members of the British Association Date: 1920s
Mademoiselle Lefort, bearded ladyMademoiselle Lefort, a bearded lady who visited London in 1818. Date: 1818
Paranormal apparation: shining infant & Viscount CastlereaghRobert Stewart(1769-1822), Viscount Castlereagh, staying in an Irish castle, is visited by this shining infant, known to appear there; later he sees it in the Commons. Date: circa 1800
Sir Thomas More / AndersonSIR THOMAS MORE English statesman and author in prison, visited by his daughter Margaret 1478 - 1535
Man visited in gaol, c. 1800A man is visited in gaol by a friend, c. 1800 Date: C.1800
Princess Louise visits Shaftesbury Homes Esher PlaceAfter a merger with the National Society for the Protection of Young Girls (Princess Louise Home) in 1935, the Shaftesbury Homes Esher Place home was renamed Esher Place
Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Diana & Mary Powell-Cotton(Right to left) Diana Powell-Cotton (1908-1986), Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Belgian Army, Mary Powell-Cotton (1910-1998). In the garden at Quex
Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Belgian Army. In the garden at Quex. Major Powell-Cotton had met Bogaerts in Africa a few years previously. He visited Quex on several occasions during the War. Date: 1915
Major Powell-Cotton and friends(Right to left) Major PHG Powell-Cotton, Captain Commandant Bogaerts, Belgian Army, Anne Bogaerts, his sister. In the garden at Quex.Major Powell-Cotton had met Bogaerts in Africa a few years
The jockey Stephen Donaghues racing dramas (1926)Frank Bullock (Australian jockey champion- seen left) visited the Islington studio one day to see how his colleague Stephen Donoghue (far right) was enjoying his film experience
Temperance Tale - The Bottle part 2Coloured lantern slide from a series entitled Bottle. In this slide, the drunken man and his family are being visited by the bayliffs, who are stripping their house of possessions
China - The Temple of HeavenLantern slide of shrine in most northerly building, temple of heaven. The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven (pinyin, Tiantan)
Wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital wardPreparation sketch by Matania for a work depicting a wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital ward that was originally a school
Queen Elizabeth II in CanadaDuring her royal tour of Canada the Queen, accompanied by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Lester Pearson, visited the Expo 67 fair in Montreal. Date: 1967
Gustave Nadaud PhotoGUSTAVE NADAUD French poet, singer, musician, best-known for his poem on never having visited Carcassonne. Photo 1880. Date: 1820 - 1893
Deroulede PhotoPAUL DEROULEDE - French statesman, banished for plotting against the state, photographed at San Sebastian (Spain) visited by the eminent actor Mounet-Sully in 1899. Date: 1846 - 1914
James Thomson AlcoveThe arbour or alcove in the garden of the cottage in Kew (or Kew-foot) Lane, near Richmond, Surrey, where the poet James Thomson was oft- times visited by his muse. Date: 18TH CENTURY
Willie PapeWILLIE PAPE American pianist, child prodigy from Mobile, visited England 1863. Date: 1850 - ?