Wise Collection (page 3)

Posada, Illustration to a story, The Wise Lay Brother
Illustration to a story, The Wise Lay Brother -- he speaks before the king. Date: circa 1900

German wise-woman
Villagers crowd the cottage of the village wise-woman, and one of them writes down her inspired utterances. Date: 1867

Native Medicine Man, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1910

Three Wise Men visiting Mary and the Christ Child
The Three Wise Men visiting the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, depicted in Art Nouveau style. Date: 1900

Tuck. C350. B Parsons. c1920. jpg
Outside of the cattle shed, an interpretation of the Nativity, depicting Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the three wise men. Artist: BE Parsons Date: 1907

Three educated owls on a New Year card, with verse and snowy landscape. Date: circa 1890s

Owl on a Christmas card
A wise old owl on a Christmas card, with moon and stars. Date: circa 1890s

Mount Wise & Harbour, Devonport, Devon
Mount Wise & Harbour, Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England. Date: 1920s

Aeneas built a castle in Italy and sends his wise messengers to the king Latinus in Laurentum. Scene from the Aeneid of Virgil in french manuscript From the creation of the world to the conquest of

On the Properties of Things (De proprietatibus rerum) (15th c.), translation by Jean Cordichon of the encyclopedic work of the Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus

CHARLES V of France, called the Wise (1500-1558). King of France (1364-1380), member of the Valois dynasty. Coronation of Charles V. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona

Alfonso X, called The Wise (1221-1284). King of Castile and Le󮠨 1252-1284). On the right, portraits of his wife Violante of Aragon and Hungary (1236-1300) and their children

Wise owl and pixies
A black owl guards a beautiful winged fairy from menacing imps. Artist: Thomas Maybank Date: circa 1916

Favourite Sayings - Fools set stools for wise men to tumble
Black and white lantern slide of a young man crouched down holding a stool in front of an old man walking along reading a book. Painted background shows the interior of a kitchen

A wise owl. A wise owl dressed in formal evening wear. Date: 1903

Olympic Polo Team, 1924
Englands Olympic Polo team for the Paris Games of 1924. Top left is Major F. W. Barrett, top right is Lieut. Colonel the Hon. J. D. Y. Bingham, bottom right is Captain the Hon. F. E

Nursery Rhymes -- Men of Gotham, bakers shop
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Three Wise Men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl, and if the bowl had been stronger, my song would have been longer

Wilhelm Herzog Tyrol
WILHELM HERZOG von TYROL Austrian noble, son of Leopld the Wise, husband of Joanna of Hungary and Naples. Date: ? - 1406

Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know her love is true
Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know that somebody loves her madly! Is it the gentleman who is next in line...?! Date: circa 1907

Advertising postcard - Lloyds News - At the Top of the Tree
Advertising postcard for Lloyds News - At the Top of the Tree. Celebrating sales of nearly a million and a half copies. Lloyds Weekly Newspaper was an early Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom

The logical response to a question fom the older generation
" Now, Boy, where does Port wine come from?" " From the Public- ouse." !!! Date: circa 1890s

Two scruffy street boys discuss lowering of income tax
Joyful News. " Ow, I sy Billie, Fader says there ll be a penny off de income-tax nex Year." Date: 1895

Hampton Court Maze - Hampton Court Palace
Aerial view of Hampton Court Maze - Hampton Court Palace - designed by George London and Henry Wise and commissioned around 1700 by William III

Wise King Berendey - copy of an 1885 painting by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects). Date: 1885

Alfonso X, called The Wise (1221-1284). Libro
" Alfonso X, called " The Wise" (1221-1284). Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games). 1282. " Book of Games" by Alfonso X the Wise. Women playing tric-trac. Gothic art

Frederick III the Wise (1463-1525). Elector of
" Frederick III the Wise (1463-1525). Elector of Saxony, protector of Luther. Work by Cranach, Lucas, " the Elder" (1472-1553). Renaissance art. Painting. CZECH Rep.. Prague

MORENO, Mat�(1840-1906). Alfonso X Taking
MORENO, Matic; (1840-1906). Alfonso X Taking

CABRAL Y AGUADO BEJARANO, Manuel (1827-1891); CABRAL Y AGUADO BEJARANO, Manuel (1827-1891). The Recapture of Cadiz in 1262-1264 by Alfonso X the Wise

Alfonso X, called The Wise (1221-1284). Book
" Alfonso X, called " The Wise" (1221-1284). Book of Chess, Dice and Tables. 1283. Fol. 1v. Scribe monks. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Astrolabium owned by the king Alfonso X el Sabio. SPAIN. Madrid. Navy Museum

Book On the Properties of Things (15th c. ). Translation
Book On the Properties of Things (15th c.). Translation by Jean Cordichon of the encyclopedic work by the Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus

Alfonso X, called The Wise (1221-1284). Cantigas
" Alfonso X, called " The Wise" (1221-1284). Cantigas de Santa Maria (Virgin Mary Songs). 13th c. MS T.I. 1. Codex Rico. Cantiga 63. Fol. 92R

Tales from Many Lands: Abdulluh, the Wise One. From Treasure no. 259 (30 December 1967)

Tales from Many Lands: The Legend of Volka. From Treasure no. 202 (26 November 1966)

Book cover design, Through the Air: a Narrative of Forty Years Experience as an Aeronaut, by John Wise, Philadelphia: To-day Printing & Pub. Co, 1873. Showing a balloon over the sea. 1873

Blue-bird lady though you be, with your hat perched careless-wise. Illustration shows a bust portrait, facing right, of a beautiful young woman wearing a hat with blue feathers. Date 1914 May 2

The flies got wise. Illustration shows a large spider labeled Flim Flam Finance with a disgruntled look on its face, sitting on a cobweb labeled Wall Street

The wise guy. Date c1906

Elderly Swiss Spinner at hew wheel. She is wearing a remarkable headdress / scarf and is working a very elegant wooden wheel. Date: circa 1910s

Riding to Bethlehem by Francis Taylor
Stylised illustration or, as it is described in the caption, illumination showing the Three Kings following the star to Bethlehem. Date: 1927

ULM CHURCH WISE LION
The Wise Lion, one of several exterior statues at the futuristic modern church at Ulm, Germany. Date: 1930s

French Shepherdess with flock and dog
Venerable French Shepherdess with flock of sheep and faithful hound. Date: circa 1910s

Straw on a Water Pump
When winter comes in the village of Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire, England, the wise villagers cover their water pump with straw, so that their supply does not freeze! Date: 1950s

The Wise Men Gotham by Charles Folkard. So they left the eel to be drowned. Anon 1923

ELH. Three wise men of Gotham
Three wise men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl. The bowl bended -- the story ended! 20th century

Prince Philip performing in a Nativity play at Gordonstoun
Prince Philip of Greece, later Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921), pictured playing one of the three kings in the Oberufer nativity play, while at Gordonstoun school in 1938

Village Elder
An Elder from the Kashmir region of India, or possibly even further north-west in a region which now form part of Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Chief Red Cloud - Sioux Chieftain
Native American Chieftain of the Sioux Tribe - Chief Red Cloud

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