Widow Collection (page 2)

WIDOW REMARRIES 1950
At Campine, when a widow remarries, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

Mourning Dress 1888
A windswept, forlorn young widow stands at the ship's railings - the white cliffs of Dover behind her. Fashionable mourning dress is courtesy of Maison Jays, Regent Street. 1888

MERRY WIDOW CHORUS/1905
The chorus from a Viennese production of The Merry Widow ('Die Lustige Witwe') by Lehar. Date: 1905

MUSSORGSKY/KHOVANSCCHINA
Costume for Martha, a widow, mystic, former mistress of Andrei Khovanski, son of Ivan K : she escapes being drowned, dies throwing herself into a fire

LEHAR / MERRY WIDOW 4
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Danilo and the widowed Sonia make friends. Date: 1907

LEHAR / MERRY WIDOW 6
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Marsovian guests at the fete Date: 1907

LEHAR, EVELYN LAYE ETC
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Evelyn Laye and Carl Brisson as the widowed Sonia and her admirer Danilo. Date: 1929

Gertrude Lester
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Gertrude Lester as the widowed Sonia Date: 1908

ROSENKRANTZ CONDEMNED
Kristian IV, known for helping the downtrodden, condemns Rosenkrantz to death for forging a bill in order to extort money out of a widow. Date: circa 1630

Her Cross
A heart-broken young widow mourns her dead soldier husband. His medal, cap and sword are all she has left. 1916

GERMAN WIDOW'S WEEDS
WITWENTRACHT, A German widow in her mourning weeds 16th century

WIDOW SCRAPS PLANS
A young widow, having found consolation for her loss, scraps her plans for an elaborate tomb for her late husband, the general Date: circa 1830

Advert for Jay's mourning dress 1888
A widow stands on the deck of a ship, looking wistfully towards the shore... but also looking decorative and remarriageable, thanks to her mourning dress from Jay's 1888

FASHIONABLE YOUNG WIDOW
Pretty young widow in mourning dress takes tea with a handsome young man while she views the architect's plans for her husband's mausoleum Date: 1820s

LEHAR FIRTH
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Actress Elizabeth Firth (as Natalie, wife of Popoff) wears the famous Edwardian "Gainsborough" style hat in Lehar's operetta. Date: 1907

LEHAR WIDOW FIRTH
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Actress Elizabeth Firth (as Natalie, wife of Popoff) wears the famous Edwardian "Gainsborough" style hat in Lehar's famous operetta. Date: 1907

Lehar Widow Elsie Photo Music Opera Die Lustige
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Lily Elsie in Lehar's operetta
(THE MERRY WIDOW) Actress Lily Elsie (as Sonia) wears the famous Edwardian "Gainsborough" style hat in Lehar's operetta. Date: 1907

ROMAN FUNERAL
A Roman funeral procession carries the dead man's corpse to the funeral pyre, where the widow stabs herself to the alarm of her friends ; note the weeping mourners Date: circa 1st century

MARRIAGE/BELGIUM 1950
At Campine, when a widow marries again, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

REMARRIAGE CUSTOM
At Campine, when a widow marries again, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

Mediumship - a spirit perplexed 1853
A spirit perplexed. A woman visiting a medium requests she asks the spirit of her deceased husband Augustus where he put the receipt for a repaid claim. Date: 1853

His Little Widows, Wyndhams Theatre, London
His Little Widows, Bernard Hishins musical comedy production, Wyndhams Theatre, London. Date: circa 1925

If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields. The mother, widow and little daughter of a British soldier who died early in World War One visit his

Cake House, Hyde Park
In the time of Queen Anne, it was known as the Cheesecake House, Cake House or Minced-pie House and later was called Prices Lodge (later it was Prices Lodge, run by a widow named Frances Price)

Man forced to wear his hosts ill-fitting clothes at a dinner party after arriving drenched from the rain. Miseries of Travelling

Midshipman Newcome meets crew from HMS Victory at Sally Port, Gibraltar. Masters Mate Spunyarn falls in the sea at the dock, a soldier guards the Sally Port

Homecoming procession for William Curtis, 1821
Homecoming procession for William Curtis, Lord Mayor of London, 1821. Aldermen and shopkeepers carry torches beside the carriage. Procession and Te Deum Chaunt for Sir Billy Biscuit

English huntsman and lady watching a fox swim across a river, 19th century. Facey Romford raising his hat and shouting while Mrs Lucy Somerville sits sidesaddle on her mount. The view

A horse bolts through a gate during a foxhunt, 19th century. Riders in hunting pinks and a pack of foxhounds watch as the huntsman tries to regain control. One of Multum in Parvos going days

English huntsman making a dangerous jump over a stone wall beneath a low branch, 19th century. Facey Romford hitting his head on a branch during a fox-hunt. Rot the beggar, exclaims Romford

Why I Became A Vegetarian, Lady Augustus Paget
Why I Became A Vegetarian, by Lady Augustus Paget (Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget, nÚÑáCountess von Hohenthal, 1839-1929). 1899

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Friars Tale, showing the corrupt Summoner, the Devil and the Widow. Date: 1845

Widow and young man taking coffee in a restaurant talking to a stone mason. She says, And don t forgot in large letters, A good father, fine spouse, he leaves an inconsolable widow

Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres, and Eurasian stone curlew, Burhinus oedicnemus. Handcoloured engraving by the widow Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys

Pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, and ruff, Philomachus pugnax. Handcoloured engraving by widow Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d

Hodgsons redstart and European robin
Hodgsons redstart, Phoenicurus hodgsoni, and European robin redbreast, Erithacus rubecula. Handcoloured engraving by the Widow Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d

Skeleton of Death comes for the Elector as he exits his palace with his courtiers and ignores a widow and orphan. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by

Diane of Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France, 1499-1566. She wears a chaperon headress that ties under the chin, pink velvet surtout with puffed and slashed sleeves trimmed with ermine

Michelle de Vitry, widow of Jean Jouvenel des Ursins, died 1456. After her husbands death in 1431, she wore black mourning dress with the wimple and headband of a nun. From a painting on wood

Snake s-head or widow iris, Iris tuberosa. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Dragonflies and skimmers
Dragonflies: bar-winged skimmer, Libellula axilena 1, halloween pennant, Celithemis eponina 2, portia widow dragonfly, Palpopleura portia 3, and fulvous forest skimmer, Neurothemis fulvia 4

Exotic dragonflies and damselflies
Lucia widow dragonfly, Palpopleura lucia 1, rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina caja 2, picture wing, Rhyothemis variegata 3, slough amberwing, Perithemis domitia 4, and smoky rubyspot damselfly

Pin-tailed whydah, Vidua macroura (Supercilious widow bird, Fringilla superciliosa Vieillot). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker

Renee du Bec, Marechale de Guebriant, widow of Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guebriant. Handcoloured lithograph after a 1646 portrait in Roger de Gaignieres gallery portfolio X 73 from Le Bibliophile

Marie Francoise de Bourbon and Louise-Francoise
Marie Francoise de Bourbon, Duchesse d Orleans, wife of Philippe II the Regent, with Louise-Francoise le Bouthillier de Chavigny, widow of Philippe de Clerembault

Monumental Brass Rubbing, Quatremayn family
Monumental Brass Rubbing, Thomas Quatremayn (Quarterman), his wife and their son Thomas, and Thomass widow, Thame, Oxfordshire. 1396

Victorian scrap, Queen Victoria in later life. late 19th century

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